Last updated on June 13th, 2024 at 05:25 pm
New Channels News In Brief…
The J. M. Smucker Co. has completed the acquisition of Big Heart Pet Brands, valued at nearly $6 billion. Big Heart Pet Brands, with nearly 2,500 employees, is a producer, distributor and marketer of branded pet food and pet snacks in the U.S. Its portfolio of brands includes Meow Mix, Milk-Bone, Kibbles ’n Bits, 9Lives, Natural Balance, Pup-Peroni, Gravy Train, Nature’s Recipe, Canine Carry Outs and Milo’s Kitchen…
The Raymond Corp. of Greene, New York, announced the appointment of Michael Field as CEO, and Tim Combs as president of sales and marketing. The company is a provider of material handling technology. Raymond offers a full line of manual and electric lift trucks, including pallet trucks, walkie stackers, counterbalanced trucks, reach trucks, order pickers and turret trucks as well as software to manage lift truck fleets, labor efficiencies and warehouses…
Weis Markets announced its new Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, store has received a gold level GreenChill certification from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for reducing in-store refrigerant usage by more than 60 percent. GreenChill is an EPA partnership with food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change. This is the 12th store in the Weis Markets chain to be awarded a GreenChill certification from the EPA.
