Frozen Foods

LONDON - UK frozen foods retailer Iceland said today it would resume dividend payments and change its name to The Big Food Group, the Financial Times reported.

CHICAGO - Kmart Corp. on Tuesday said its contract with grocery wholesaler Fleming Cos. will be expanded, Reuters reported.

TORRANCE, Calif. - King's Hawaiian Enterprises Inc. has completed the sale of its frozen foods unit to Florida-based Pinnacle Foods Corporation. The terms and value of the transaction were undisclosed.

Food distributors are being squeezed by three powerful trends that are pressing the industry to further increase efficiencies in distribution centers (DCs) and try even harder to meet customers' logistics needs, according to the 2001 Food Industry Distribution Center Benchmarking Report, recently released by FDI and FMI.

SureBeam Corporation, leading provider of electron beam food safety systems and services for the food industry, is debuting the nation's first SureBeam facility capable of processing food simultaneously with SureBeam electron beam and x-ray technology.

Fleming has launched a major new National Selling Event for independent retail customers, leveraging Fleming's centralized procurement operation to provide customers bonus deals that provide lower prices on leading national brand products.

Peapod, Stop & Shop work toward a profitable online shopping model in Norwalk, Conn.

Fleming announced on Wednesday the successful opening and initiation of service from its newest distribution center in South Brunswick, N.J.