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This new facility will serve as the company's European Center of Expertise for Biscuits, focusing on innovation and new product development for many of Europe's biscuit brands.

Under the terms of the agreement, each partner will own 50 percent of a newly created entity, Hutchison Hain Organic Holdings Limited.

The center is expected to offer an unprecedented and holistic approach to creative thinking and collaboration to facilitate accelerated innovation and growth.

The combined solution is expected to provide manufacturers with a scalable end-to-end business solution for robust product information management with Certified GDSN Synchronization capabilities.

Kraft Foods and Harvard Business School share leading practices for building a resilient organization through customer-centricity and collaboration within the enterprise and across the business network.

Jaya Kumar will lead Quaker Foods & Snacks, a $2-billion operating unit of PepsiCo.

Dole Fresh Vegetables, a division of Dole FoodCompany, forms a new long-term contract with a pallet and containerpooling company.

In anticipation of the previously-announced mergers with its two largest bottlers, PepsiCo announces plans to form a new entity comprising the bottling businesses.