Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., the beef and pork unit of Tyson Foods, Inc., has re-invigorated its Chairman’s Reserve® Premium Meats brand in response to rising interest in premium meat.

King’s Command Foods, of Kent, Wash., aims to help retailers deliver take-home convenience with new meatball party platters and meatloaf sliders on pretzel buns.

The new Backyard Flavors™ line of vacuum-packaged, pre-seasoned beef products features ready-to-cook beef sirloin tri-tips that offer a “just off the grill” taste for casual at-home dining in three flavor varieties:

J&J Snack Foods is excited to announce the latest addition to the SUPERPRETZEL Soft Pretzel product line: SUPERPRETZEL Soft Pretzel Mini Hot Dogs.

Harris Ranch introduces new Angus ground beef options: frozen ground beef patties and refrigerated chubs, produced to the highest standards by Harris Ranch and available in multiple lean points.

Bar-S Foods has introduced Bar-S Beef and Turkey Skinless Smoked Sausages to its already popular Skinless Sausage line.

Following a spring 2011 visit to AdvancePierre Foods’ Cincinnati processing plant, where the processor was pumping out a wide variety of formed protein products, The National Provisioner queried Tom Burroughs, director, Protein Research and Development for AdvancePierre, on some of the challenges and considerations through which processors need to work when developing and incorporating forming technology.

As the national and global economy began to unravel in 2008 and 2009, many companies ran for the hills, begged for answers and reinvented or rebooted their entire strategic plan in order to compensate for the fear that littered the headlines.

With a population of eight to 10 million Muslims in the United States, plus more than one billion overseas, the Islamic market represents a vast, potentially lucrative market for any company involved in the food industry. The challenge, however, is in providing food that both tastes good and is appropriate for the target population.

From its initial announcement 10 months ago, the merger of Pierre Foods, Advance Food Co. and Advance Brands was touted as a perfect fit — a unification of “wonderfully complementary” companies under one corporate umbrella.