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Case Foods Inc. has announced the appointments of Michael Popowycz to vice chairman and chief financial officer and Kevin L. Phillips to president and chief operating officer.

Operating income was up 19%, and net income up 31%, on improving sales trends, and ongoing success with cost initiatives.

Superior Farms is supporting its new East Coast push by partnering with Shaw’s and Star Markets in Boston to support the Lamb Jam tour by the American Lamb Board.

McDonald’s Corp. says it will require its U.S. pork suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out the use of stalls that confine pregnant sows.

State officials have fined a Pilgrim's Pride Union County, N.C. plant for more than $107,000 following an ammonia leak there last August.

Gwaltney has launched a revamped website, www.gwaltneyfoods.com.

Han Yang Inc., a Milwaukee, Wis., establishment, is recalling approximately 25,600 pounds of cooked pork hocks because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued cease and desist administrative orders to two chicken broiler facilities in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for discharging chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River.

Philanthropist and football legend Doug Flutie will share his life experiences on and off the field during the keynote address at the 2012 Annual Meat Conference, to be held February 19-21, 2012, at the Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, Fla.

The target date for the start of the new association is July 1, 2012.