Cargill, Inc.

Diamond Foods, Inc.’s Diamond of California culinary nut brand is collaborating with Pyrex Products for a spring promotion offering shoppers the chance to enter daily to win one of hundreds of Diamond Nuts and Pyrex prize packages.

In the thick of the meat-and-potato selling season, a new promotional partnership combining Cargill ground beef with Ore-Ida potato products provides grocery retailers with a turnkey comfort food combo deal packed with helpful recipes and discount coupons to entice consumers during late winter and early spring.

Diamond Foods, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. and U.K. operations of premium potato-chip maker Kettle Foods from London-based investment firm Lion Capital, LLP for $615 million in cash.

M-Dot Network, an Erie, Pa.-based digital incentive processor that provides solutions for retailers to issue and redeem mobile and digital coupons, last week appointed retail technology industry veteran — and Progressive Grocer Contributing Editor —David Diamond to its board of advisors.

Diamond Foods, Inc.’s ongoing “Holiday Treat” campaign, which runs through January — encompassing the key holiday culinary nut consumption season — features ads showing how its Diamond of California brand adds flavor and crunch to a broad variety of seasonal recipes.

Safeway Inc., in cooperation with Beef Packers, Inc. (Cargill), is recalling 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be linked to an outbreak of salmonella.

Times Supermarkets has been named Retail Marketer of the Year by Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.’s Sterling Silver Premium Meats brand.

With the help of its retail grocery partners, Cargill’s “More to Share” program will help local charity groups address the strain of having enough food to meet the highest level of food support demand since the Great Depression.