Food

PepsiAmericas Inc. and PepsiCo complete the joint purchase of 80 percent of Sandora LLC, a leading juice company in Ukraine.

On-the-go consumers want weight-management tools that are quick and simple.

Smart Balance, manufacturer of Smart Balance buttery spreads, popcorn, oils, cooking sprays, peanut butter, mayonnaise and cheese products, and Earth Balance butter spreads and shortening, appoints Acosta as its sales and marketing agency in the United States.

Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. will leverage DSC Logistics transportation management services for product shipping. In April 2007, Pinnacle Foods awarded DSC warehousing and distribution management services.

Candy manufacturer Just Born Inc. had three main criteria when it evaluated solutions that would help it to deal with its disparate data sources: ease of use for both the field and internal users, minimal IT resources needed to install and maintain, and strong processes in place for support and training.

Dole Food Company Inc.'s operating subsidiary, Standard Fruit de Costa Rica, and Fondo Nacional de Financiamento Forestal (FONAFIFO), the National Forestry Financing Fund and an entity of the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, are working together to establish a carbon neutral product supply chain for bananas and pineapples from its production in Costa Rica to the markets in North America and Europe.

Recent growth at SpringThyme Oils Ltd fueled the need for a powerful new ERP system.

Just one week after announcing its implementation of RedPrairie's Corporation's E2e Supply Chain Suite, Kehe Food Distributors announced that it has selected Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle's Demantra to create an integrated, modernized IT infrastructure.