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PREDILECTA Alimentos, the third largest industrial tomato processor in Brazil, has finalised its takeover of an idle Unilever plant in Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais state, for an undisclosed sum. The new unit will boost the company’s production capacity by 40% this year, said Predilecta’s director, Antônio Carlos Tadiotti. The transaction will be financed partly

Frederick Scott Salyer, who has been described as one of the most influential men in California’s agriculture industry, has just learnt that he will spending six years behind bars for his part in a tomato price fixing scam. Authorities say the scheme involved bribing purchasing managers at large food companies such as Kraft Foods and

– Tomatoes provide vital chemicals to help muscles recover after being stretched and strained – Juice also helps blood sugar return to normal level – Compound called lycopene thought to help the process Tomato juice could be better than energy drinks at helping the body recover from exercise, new research suggests. Experts experts say tomatoes

Warren Buffett and Brazilian financier Jorge Paulo Lemann are teaming up to buy ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co for $23.2 billion, in what could be the first step of a wave of mergers for the food and beverage industry. Analysts and people close to the deal said Heinz could be a good starting point to

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PATTERSON — Traina Foods Inc. of Patterson has taken on an American icon. The state’s largest producer of sun-dried tomatoes has started making them into ketchup — ketchup with more tang and texture than you get from the standard brands. Willie Traina, chief executive officer of the 87-year-old company, believes it is the first such

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MARKET analysts expect to see a rise of industrial tomato production and imports of processed tomato in Brazil next year, following a temporary contraction of tomato production in 2012. Stocks of tomato pulp were high in the country as a consequence of the large harvest of 2011, and producers consequently reduced the area devoted to