Texas-based Dean Foods Company has agreed to buy the manufacturing and retail ice cream business of Friendly’s Ice Cream, LLC for $155 million.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. will become a privately held company.

People and industry news for April 2016.

Beer giant Anheuser-Busch has added another brewer to its growing portfolio of craft brewing companies.

Spice manufacturer McCormick & Company is ditching its plan to purchase the UK’s Premier Foods plc.

Beverage giant Constellation Brands is enhancing its presence in the wine category by adding The Prisoner Wine Company’s portfolio of brands.

NAMI recognized 138 meat and poultry plants for achieving high levels of workplace safety performance.

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. subsidiary Bay Valley Foods will shutter its Ayer, MA food plant, stopping production in the first quarter of 2017.