Utz Quality Foods has been making potato chips for years and expanded into other snack foods such as pretzels, and its now-famous cheese balls. The Hanover, Pa., company shares how it makes its fantastic orange, bite-size snacks.
One of the country’s reigning snack makers, Snak King recently acquired C.J. Vitner and now has a second production facility in Freeport, Ill., that it expanded and upgraded with new equipment and at least 80,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space.
Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V., Mexico City, says its Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc., Horsham, Pa., has completed its $31.9-million purchase of the Beefsteak brand, acquired as part of the Hostess Brands bankruptcy proceedings. Also, the company announces that CEO Daniel Servitje Montull will replace retiring Don Roberto Servitje Sendra as board chairman.
ConAgra Foods saved $22 million in 2012 through its sustainability initiatives, such as cutting landfill waste and carbon emissions and optimizing packaging efforts.
Several leading packaging material producers discuss issues influencing the type of packaging bakers and snack producers are using to meet consumer needs and their own.
Rehrig Pacific Co., manufacturer of reusable transport packaging systems, including plastic pallets, crates and carts, says it was named the 2013 Supplier of the Year by the All Star Association. The association’s Thoroughbred Award is presented to a company that not only has exemplified outstanding products and customer service to the All Star members from the previous year, but who has also introduced new innovative solutions to the members and the dairy industry.
Running two shifts a day, five days a week on four production lines, The Christie Cookie Co.’s 41,000-sq.-ft. production facility in Nashville, Tenn., has big-company ideas and procedures.
The Terre Haute, Ind.-based producer of chemical leavening systems uses Lean Manufacturing to improve its Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification scores.
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