Mexico City-based Grupo Bimbo has emerged as the leading candidate to acquire Canada Bread Co. Ltd. from majority owner Maple Leaf Foods Inc., says Reuters.
A Hormel bacon bits plant in St. James, Minn., will close in May, cutting work for 75 employees. Austin, Minn.-based Hormel Foods, will be expanding its plant in Dubuque, Iowa, for the first phase of a major project to create more bacon-toppings products.
Together with more than 150 participants from all over the world, the SAVE FOOD Initiative (www.save-food.org) discussed past and future cooperation at its first Partnership Event in Rome in December. Stakeholders from industry and agriculture, associations, initiatives and the public sector have thus taken another step in their joint effort against global food losses and waste.
Sales for the U.S. restaurant industry sales are projected to exceed $683 billion in 2014, an increase of 3.6% from last year, according to a forecast released late on Wednesday by the National Restaurant Association.
A Packaged Facts report indicates that in-house baked goods experienced dollar sales increases every year since 2008. It expects these gains to continue through 2017.
The Grain Chain, an industry collaboration of 10 organizations representing grain producers, millers, bakers and allied manufacturer, reiterates the nutritional value of grain foods to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).
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