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Mars, Inc. announced a merger agreement with Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in a transaction valued at approximately $23 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Wrigley will become a separate and standalone subsidiary of Mars.

With the US and South Korea now exploring a possible free trade agreement, Cal Dooley, president and CEO of the Food Products Association, says a deal between the two countries could be beneficial to the food industry.

Tasty Baking Company has started construction of a 345,000-sq.-ft. building on 25 acres at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Commerce Center.

Thirteen workers were killed and more than 60 seriously injured in a catastrophic dust explosion at Imperial Sugar in Port Wentworth, GA on February 7, 2008.

Campbell Soup Company completed the sale of its Godiva Chocolatier business to Yildiz Holding A.S. for $850 million.

Flowers Foods plans to construct a 200,000-sq.-ft. bakery located in Bardstown, KY. 

Barilla’s new pasta plant in Avon, NY won Food Engineering’s Plant of the Year award and was honored at FE’s Food Automation & Manufacturing Conference and Expo 2008 in Clearwater Beach, FL.