Kurt Kern joins Delkor Systems, St. Paul, Minn., as vice president of operations.

David V. Singer, CEO of Snyder's-Lance Inc., Charlotte, N.C, will retire from his position following the company's annual stockholders' meeting on May 3.

U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack will stay through President Barack Obama’s second term.

BNP Media, the Troy, Mich.-based publishing company that owns Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery magazine, is an official media sponsor for the 2013 edition of the International Baking Industry Exposition (IBIE) 2013 event.

Thomasville, Ga.-based Flowers Foods Inc. has signed two asset purchase agreements with Hostess Brands Inc., Irving, Texas, for numerous Hostess bread brands, bakeries and depots.

Take a look at our new “Future Foodie” column in our February issue. Written by Elyse Buckley, a student at Kansas State University in Manhattan, it provides a fresh perspective of the food industry. Buckley is a graduate student and a Master of Science candidate in the grain science department at KSU.

Dorner Manufacturing will fund the Richard C. Ryan Packaging Education Scholarship, which will be administered by the PMMI Education & Training Foundation.

Owner and founder John Broucek hands over the reins to New England Natural Bakers’ employees after 35 years.

Cincinnati-based Gold Medal Products Co. has purchased a 42,000-sq.-ft. building to accommodate its double-digit sales growth.

The American Bakers Association wins a major victory on behalf of the wholesale baking industry with the inclusion of an exemption in the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent proposal, “Preventive Controls for Human Food: Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Foods.”