Tomatoes in the News


ConAgra hungry for growth
Omaha World-Herald
By 2017, ConAgra Foods Inc. wants to be the fastest-growing US food company in terms of profitability and sales, the president of the company's consumer food division told a local business group Thursday. That means beating out the ...


ConAgra bought rights to Marie Callender's brand
Reuters
CHICAGO, June 14 (Reuters) - ConAgra Foods Inc (CAG.N) paid $57.5 million for the Marie Callender Pie Shops brand trademarks just last week, after holding a license to sell some frozen foods under the Marie Callender's name since 1994. ...
ConAgra buys Marie Callender's trademarkForbes
ConAgra buys Marie Callender's trademarkMiamiHerald.com

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Tomatoes Ripe With Powerful Health Benefits
Food Product Design
Researchers from the National Center for Food Safety & Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology and ConAgra Foods Inc. examined current research to discover the role tomato products play in health and disease risk reduction. ...
Tomatoes Pack A Nutritious Punch, Study FindsBETTER Health Research

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Telegraph.co.uk

A Ruling to Chill Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
A Delaware court decision that found Barclays Capital "secretly and selfishly manipulated" the sale of Del Monte Foods Co. has become a shot across the bow for other Wall Street firms, many of whom have used similar sales ...
Judge delays vote on Del Monte takeover by KKRReuters
Judge Blasts Barclays, Halts Del Monte VoteABC News
Judge blasts Barclays over Del Monte dealPrivate Equity News
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Local companies face cap-and-trade deadline
Fresno Business Journal
Emitting more than 53000 metric tons of pollutants in 2008, the processing plant of Los Gatos Tomato Products in Huron will also be looking into allowances or offsets to fulfill its share of the emissions cap. Producing around 265 million pounds of ...


Fresno Bee

Smelt Supreme Court ruling goes against farmers
San Francisco Chronicle
(10-31) 15:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The US Supreme Court denied an appeal today by Central California farmers who claimed the federal government lacks constitutional authority to protect the imperiled delta smelt by limiting north-to-south water ...
Supreme Court denies California farmers as Delta smelt swims onWestern Farm Press

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Campbell Soup Remodels Its Kitchen
Wall Street Journal
Campbell's soup slump owes to some lackluster investment in recent years, including reduced advertising and a dearth of new products. A push for low-sodium soups is widely viewed as a failure since salt gives soup much of its flavor. ...

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Western Farm Press

California tomato processors to contract for 12.7 million tons
Western Farm Press
As of January, California tomato processors reported plans to sign 2012 contracts totaling 12.7 million tons of processing tomatoes. Processors estimate the contracted production for 2012 will come from 266000 acres producing an average yield of 47.74 ...