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C.W. Downer & Co., a leading global middle-market investment bank, is pleased to announce that Mallet & Company, Inc. has been acquired by ICV Partners, a New York-based private investment firm focused on middle-market companies and family-owned businesses. Mallet & Company is the leading U.S. manufacturer of bakery release agents and the machinery for applying these agents. The deal closed on September 29, 2010. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Packaged Facts’ Coffee and Ready-to-Drink Coffee in the U.S.: The Market and Opportunities in Retail and Foodservice, 6th Edition offers a comprehensive look at this $47.5 billion market, examining both the retail and foodservice sides of the business as well as the growing overlap of the two.

California Custom Fruits & Flavors, a food and beverage ingredient manufacturer, has licensed the DEACOM ERP Software System to support the company’s growth plans.

Ganeden Biotech is set to unveil its new probiotic health bar at this year’s Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, California. Samples of the bar, which contain the healthy bacteria, GanedenBC30™, will be available at the show.

New Jersey based ingredient supplier, P.L. Thomas (PLT) announced today that it has partnered with Ganeden Biotech, Inc to represent the probiotic ingredient, GanedenBC30 (Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086) to the food and beverage industry.

The giant pet food recall of March 2007 proved deadly to thousands of pets nationwide. Yet unknowingly millions of pet owners continue to feed their pets food that contain ingredients imported from China. Nothing has changed. Another pet food bomb could explode at any moment…