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California-based agribusiness, Limoneira, has closed the $20m sale of its Oxnard packing facility to Ventura County Railway Company.

Pasta maker Barilla has announced that Claudio Colzani will be stepping down as chief executive officer to pursue other opportunities.

Trigo has raised $100m in an equity financing round led by Temasek and 83North, as it aims to scale the deployment of autonomous urban supermarkets.

HIG Capital has completed the sale of speciality food distributor, Lipari Foods, to an investor group led by Littlejohn & Co.

Danone has posted Q3 sales of €7.33bn – up by 9.5% on an LFL basis – after seeing “sequential growth acceleration across all categories and geographies”.

Bobbie has announced the launch of a new research and development hub that is dedicated to enhancing infant nutrition, called Bobbie Labs.

Orkla has agreed to implement a new corporate structure that will see the establishment of 12 independent portfolio companies.

Unilever has posted underlying sales growth of 10.6% for its third quarter, driven by price hikes which had "only a limited impact on volume".

Forsea Foods has raised $5.2m in a seed round led by Berlin-based Target Global, as it looks to accelerate R&D on cultivating eel meat.

Bega Cheese has announced that Paul van Heerwaarden has decided to step down after nearly six years as CEO, with Pete Findlay set to succeed him.

Keurig Dr Pepper has posted an 11.8% increase in third-quarter sales on a constant currency basis, driven by favourable net price realisation of 12.1%.

Pots & Co’s new handcrafted desserts will be available in a double chocolate ganache and a golden blonde chocolate ganache flavour.