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Hometown Foods, a portfolio of American baking brands, has completed the acquisition of Birch Benders from Sovos Brands for an undisclosed sum.

Baby nutrition company ByHeart has agreed to acquire Cascadia Nutrition, a registered packaging and blending facility in Portland, Oregon.

Cargill has announced that its CFO Jamie Miller will be stepping down from the position on 13 January 2023 to take a role at another company.

Phoebe Fraser talks with Muriel Acat-Vergnet, CEO & President of Prova, at Food Ingredients Europe 2022, about their Sustainable Vanilla Programme.

Local AB InBev brewer, Bavaria, has announced the construction of a new brewery in the municipality of Palmar de Varela in northern Colombia.

Valmont has entered into an $85m supply agreement to provide mechanised irrigation equipment and technology for multiple agricultural projects in Africa.

Curious Brewery has reached an agreement to acquire Wild Beer Co, doubling the capacity of the existing Curious operation located in Ashford, Kent.

Siemens has unveiled plans to collaborate with indoor vertical farming company, 80 Acres Farms, to apply innovative technology within agriculture.

UK-based cheese and butter wholesaler Millbrook Dairy has secured £4m in funding through Santander bank, to support European growth plans.

Stora Enso has acquired the Netherlands-based company De Jong Packaging Group, a corrugated packaging producer in the Benelux countries.

British ice cream manufacturer, Northern Bloc, has acquired two artisan ice cream businesses, Criterion Ices and Marine Ices.

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