Breakfast Foods

Highlights

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Breakfast Foods Processor MBC Acquires Nardone Brothers Frozen Pizza Company

Jan. 8, 2025
Acquisition gives MBC Companies a third processing plant in Pennsylvania and immediate access to dayparts other than breakfast, where it has predominantly played for decades.
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Economic Development

Shuttered Danville, Illinois, Quaker Facility May Be Demolished Rather Than Sold

Sept. 26, 2024
City had hoped facility at the center of an enormous 2023 recall of Quaker granola bars and some cereals for Salmonella contamination would be sold, renovated and reopened.
Erhan Inga
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People on the Move

Simply Good Foods Names New Chief Customer Officer

Sept. 10, 2024
Veteran sales executive Mike Clawson will join the maker of Atkins, Quest and OWYN in October.
Collins Unlimited
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Business Strategies

Monogram Foods to Close Dickson, Tennessee, Frozen Sandwich Plant

July 25, 2024
Just two-and-a-half years after swooping in to save the plant from closure, Monogram Foods announces the Dickson plant will be closed by the end of October.
Famartin
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Cleaning, Sanitation, Hygiene

FDA Blasts PepsiCo for Response to Salmonella Positives Over Four Years at Quaker Oats Danville, Illinois, Plant

July 11, 2024
Based on its investigation and the plant’s food safety records, FDA says the same strain of pathogenic Salmonella may have been present in the processing environment since at ...
Regulatory Compliance

School Nutrition Standards Cut Added Sugars, Some Sodium; Chocolate Milk Survives

April 24, 2024
USDA has announced final updates to the school nutrition standards; tremendous amount of feedback on February 2023 proposal helps to save flavored milk from the chopping block...
Capital Spending

K-12, Foodservice Waffle Processor Opens New Plant in Missouri

April 10, 2024
Carson City, Nev.-based Marson Foods invested $35 million to build the facility in Hazelwood, Mo.
JeepersMedia
Business Strategies

'The Kellogg Co.' is No More; Company Executes Planned Split into Kellanova, WK Kellogg Co

Oct. 2, 2023
Planned separation of The Kellogg Co.'s North American cereal business (WK Kellogg Co) and the global snacks-centric business (Kellanova) was completed Oct. 2.
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Plant Protein

Tindle Foods Launches First U.S.-Developed Product for Foodservice Channels

Sept. 26, 2023
The breakfast sausage patty is the first fully conceptualized and developed in the U.S, and first Tindle product manufactured entirely in North America.
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Legal Issues

Kellogg, Kashi Business Unit Defeat Appeals of Protein Content Labeling Lawsuits

Aug. 15, 2023
Plaintiffs in the class-action suits claimed more than 30 products misled consumers by misrepresenting the amount of high-quality protein in each product.
Rex Roof
Business Strategies

Kellogg Co. Files Form 10 — Taking Next Step Toward Planned Company Split

July 25, 2023
Planned separation into Kellanova and WK Kellogg Co businesses is expected to happen in the fourth quarter of 2023.