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IFT to host AI-enabled digital event

The organization’s annual meeting and food expo will occur virtually July 19-21.
June 9, 2021
With most in-person events still on pause due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Institute for Food Technologists’ (IFT) annual meeting and food expo will yet again be virtual for 2021. 
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Ronin Equity Partners acquires three specialty cheese companies

The newly created company will be a platform for specialty cheese, cured meat and charcuterie.
June 8, 2021
New York-based Ronin Equity Partners said it acquired Red Apple Cheese (a producer of smoked, flavored and kosher specialty cheeses), Barron County Cheese (a major smoker and copacker for the specialty cheese industry), and Cheese Brothers (an eCommerce specialty cheese business).
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Dairy briefs

Dairy briefs

News from dairy processors, associations and suppliers.
June 8, 2021

Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) announced Peggy Han as its new executive vice president and chief financial officer.


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TC Transcontinental Packaging sustainability award

TC Transcontinental Packaging wins sustainability award

The company was lauded for its Integritite PCR collation shrink film.
June 7, 2021
Chicago-based TC Transcontinental Packaging said it was named the winner for Innovations in Sustainability in this year’s Flexographic Technical Association Sustainability Excellence Award competition for its Integritite post-consumer recycled (PCR) collation shrink film.
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Cacique breaks ground on state-of-the-art dairy processing facility in Amarillo, Texas

The new facility will help the company accelerate expansion and meet growing demand for its dairy and other products nationwide.
June 3, 2021

Cacique LLC — a privately-owned Hispanic foods company that boasts the No. 1 brand of authentic Mexican-style cheeses, cremas and chorizos in the United States — said it officially broke ground on an $88 million dairy processing facility in Amarillo, Texas.


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Stonyfield Toxins Calculator

Stonyfield Organic to pay consumers to eat organic yogurt in honor of World Environment Day

The company is teaming up with The Organic Center and Organic Valley to unveil a Toxins Calculator designed to help demonstrate the positive environmental impacts of switching to organic dairy products.
June 2, 2021

On World Environment Day, Stonyfield Organic, a Londonderry, N.H.-based organic yogurt maker, is collaborating with The Organic Center and Organic Valley to launch the Toxins Calculator, a free tool to discover the environmental impacts of organic dairy.


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Dairy briefs

Dairy briefs

News from dairy processors, associations and suppliers.
May 28, 2021

In commemoration of World Hunger Day and to celebrate 50 years of bringing flavor and tradition to homes across Texas, La Vaquita — a Houston-based subsidiary of Kansas City, Kan.-headquartered Dairy Farmers of America — said it will donate 13,000 pounds of its popular queso fresco to the Houston Food Bank on May 28 to help local communities fight hunger.


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Ron Kremer

Ron Kremer to receive WDPA Presidents Award

Kremer served two separate terms on WDPA’s board of directors.
May 27, 2021

The Wisconsin Dairy Products Association (WDPA), Middleton, Wis., said Ron Kremer was selected to receive the 2021 WDPA Presidents Award.


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