Frozen Foods

ELKTON, Md. - Burris Logistics, a temperature-controlled food distribution center business based in Milford, Del., hopes to create 250 full-time jobs in Cecil County, Md. when it opens a warehouse in Elkton, the Baltimore Sun reports.

SALISBURY, N.C. - Food Lion, a subsidiary of Delhaize America, today opened the first of five Bloom pilot stores planned for 2004. The store, called, "Bloom, A Food Lion Market," is designed to test the new Bloom concept, aimed at providing a simple, uncomplicated, and hassle-free shopping experience.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Birds Eye Foods, Inc., the nation's leader in manufacturing and marketing frozen vegetables and a major processor of other food products, said it intends to implement across-the-board price increases on all product categories, including store brands, effective June 28, 2004. The increases are expected to be in the range of 5 percent to 7 percent.

Following a successful pilot, United Supermarkets rolls ahead with a knowledge-based computer-automated ordering system.

A distributor's new strategy aims to lure Chinatown shoppers to conventional stores such as a New York-area A&P.

OMAHA, Neb. -- ConAgra Foods, Inc. says that its consolidation plan will bring 440 new white-collar jobs here by the end of the year, according to Omaha World-Herald. The efficiency campaign also means closing at least three food-processing plants and expanding four others this year.

ST. LOUIS - Aurora Foods Inc. on Friday announced that it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and has completed its previously announced merger with Pinnacle Foods Holding Corporation. The reorganized company has been renamed Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. and is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J.

MINNEAPOLIS - Grocery workers have ratified a new three-year contract with three major area supermarket chains that allows modest salary increases and doesn't require union members to pay health care premiums, according to the Associated Press.