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Jusu acquires beverage company Westbloom
Jusu Bars Inc., a Canadian health and wellness company, announced its recent acquisition of Westbloom Inc. The acquisition of Westbloom, a Calgary based beverage company specializing in coffees, teas, and cold brew beverages, allows Jusu to offer plant-based coffee at…
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Protein Industries Canada receives funding for canola breeding project
Protein Industries Canada, along with industry partners, announced an investment of more than $27 million into a canola breeding project focused on making canola hybrids that produce high protein meal for downstream use. This is the first commercial breeding project…
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Clearwater Seafoods and Quin-Sea Fisheries enter agreement to secure future processing in shrimp plant
Clearwater Seafoods and Quin-Sea Fisheries announced that they have entered into an agreement to form a new joint venture which will take over operations of the St. Anthony Seafoods Limited Partnership plant in St. Anthony, Nfld. The St. Anthony plant…
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Beyond Meat enters into agreement with Roquette
Beyond Meat has announced a multi-year pea protein supply agreement with Roquette, supplier of plant-based ingredients. The supply agreement builds on a longstanding partnership that began approximately ten years ago, and significantly increases the amount of pea protein to be…
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National Association of Manufacturers’ name new vice-chair
The American Bakers Association (ABA) and the National Association of Manufacturers’ (NAM) announced the ABA president & CEO Robb MacKie has been named as the vice-chair of the NAM’s Council of Manufacturing Associations (CMA). Anne Forristall Luke, president and CEO…
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Handtmann acquires INOTEC
The Handtmann Group of Companies, headquartered in Biberach, Germany has acquired the INOTEC Group, a manufacturer of mixing and emulsifying technologies for the food processing sector, to continue building the international sales and service capabilities of its Maschinenfabrik division that…
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Cott acquires Hungarian water company
Cott and Eden Springs, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cott, have acquired 100 per cent of the shares of the Hungarian company, Clearwater Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság . Through the acquisition of ClearWater, Eden Springs will enter the Hungarian market…
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Cott considers sale of tea and coffee business
Cott Corporation announced that, as part of the company’s strategic planning process, it is evaluating certain strategic alternatives for S&D Coffee and Tea, including a sale of S&D, to transition Cott into a pure-play water solutions provider. S&D is the…
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Outcast Foods raises $3M in financing
Shortly after winning Innovator of the Year, Outcast Foods announced it has closed a $3 million financing round. The seemingly simple idea of upcycling surplus, misfit fruits and vegetables that are edible and turning them into long shelf life powders…
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Cott Corporation acquires Watercooler Gigant
Cott Corporation, a provider of home and office bottled water delivery services in North America and Europe and coffee roasting for the U.S. foodservice industry, announced that Eden Springs, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cott, has acquired the Watercooler Gigant business…
