Beck Flavors is back. Not just in name, but with the same people that made the Beck name synonymous with quality flavors.  

SensoryEffects, St. Louis, Mo., is a leading supplier of customized, technology-driven food and beverage solutions consisting of ingredient and flavor systems and finished products.

Corn Products International, Westchester, Ill., has said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has given initial approval of its $1.3 billion acquisition of National Starch, Bridgewater, N.J., with the deal expected to be finalized by early October.

Gifford’s Dairy, Skowhegan, Maine, was selected as the Grade A and Ice Cream Grand Champion (sponsored by Dairy Foods) of the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest.

When National Starch Food Innovation, Bridgewater, N.J., exhibits at the IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo, they go in a big way in the years the show is held at McCormick Place in Chicago. 

JMP Engineering Ltd., a New Zealand-based systems solution provider and manufacturer of robotic palletizing and packaging equipment, announces the opening of a new office servicing their rapidly growing North American market. 

Food for Health Ireland (FHI) continues to drive innovation in the functional ingredients industry by introducing the latest and most powerful “cellomics” analytical technologies to its Intelligent Milk Mining initiative.

Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), Rosemont, Ill., which manages the national dairy checkoff, has created a digital consumer education exhibit kit that educates consumers about where dairy products come from, and the tremendous care that dairy farmers take to provide safe, wholesome and nutritious dairy products, while caring for their animals and the environment.

Ganeden Biotech Inc., Cleveland, maker of the patented probiotic strain GanedenBC30, entered into a partnership with Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Idaho, a producer of custom micronutrient premixes for the food, beverage, human health and personal care industries.

SensoryEffects Flavor Systems, St. Louis, has acquired Juice Pac Inc., a company that specializes in juice bases for 50% and 100% juice drinks sold to school foodservice and other institutional markets.