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Lancaster, Pa.-based Kunzler, Inc., has broken ground on a $4.7-million expansion at its
Tyrone, Pa., bacon plant. The company expects the facility to open April 1, 2004.
Sysco Corp., Houston, recently announced that Ronald Boatwright has been
named president and that Andrew Malcolm
has been appointed chairman of the company's four Texas-based Freedman Meats,
Inc., operations.
Green Bay, Wis.-based Packerland Holdings, Inc., has acquired the assets of Visionary Design, Inc., Atglen, Pa. This acquisition completes the groundwork for the
expansion of Packerland into value-added
beef products.
Gold Kist, Inc., Atlanta, has been named
to Information Week magazine's latest list of
"Leading Information Technology Innovators."
Devault, Pa.-based Devault Foods has announced that Impact Sales and Marketing
will serve as its new Midwest regional broker.

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Members of the National Chicken Council,
Washington, D.C., have elected the following
to serve as officers for one-year terms: Greg
Lee, Tyson, Foods, chairman; Tom Shelton,
Case Foods, vice chairman; and Don Jackson, Foster Farms, secretary-treasurer.
N.C.C. also elected the following to serve
one-year terms on its Executive Committee:
John Bekkers, Gold Kist; Elise Durbin,
Marshall Durbin Cos.; Gary George,
George's, Inc.; Randall Goins, OK Foods;

Mark Hickman, Peco Foods; Don Jackson;
Greg Lee; Elton Maddox, Wayne Farms;
Joe Sanderson Jr., Sanderson Farms; Tom
Shelton; Robert Turley, Perdue Farms; and
Michael Welch, Harrison Poultry.
Sanderson Farms, Inc., Laurel, Miss., has
made the following appointments: Tom Allien as corporate safety and health coordinator; William Gull, III as national sales
representative; Terry Hoelscher as plant
manager of its Brazos processing facility;
and Barry Jefcoat as division manager at
Hammond Processing.
The American Meat Institute, Arlington, Va.,
has elected six officers to lead it during the
next year and chose additional members to
serve on its board of directors and executive
committee during the its annual business
meeting this past October.
Elected as chairman was Stewart Owens, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. William Buckner, Cargill, Inc., has been elected to serve
as vice chairman. Robert "Bo" Manly, Premium Standard Farms, will serve as treasurer. Richard Bond, Tyson Foods, Inc., will
serve as secretary.
Rick Searer, Kraft Foods North America,
becomes immediate past chairman. Patrick
Boyle was re-elected to serve a fifteenth
year as A.M.I. president and C.E.O.
New members of A.M.I.'s board of directors include: William Fielding, Creekstone
Farms Premium Beef; Roger Reiser, Robert
Reiser & Co., Inc.; and Chris Mason, AEW
Thurne, Inc.
New executive committee members include: Van Ayvazian, Boar's Head Provision Co., Inc.; Greg Benedict, Rosen Meat
Group, Inc.; Michel Defenbau, Multivac,
Inc.; and Larry Odom, Odom's Tennessee
Pride Sausage, Inc.
The American Meat Institute, Arlington,
Va., honored Burke Corp., Nevada, Iowa,
with the association's Edward C. Jones

Community Service Award. The award is
presented annually to a company that exhibits the same commitment to community
service as the late Ed Jones of Jones Dairy
Farm, Fort Atkins, Wis.
A.M.I. also honored the A.M.I. Equipment Design Task Force with the Industry Advancement Award. The Equipment
Design Task Force, chaired by Kraft Foods
North America, Inc., Director of Sanitation
Joe Stout, convened in 2002 to develop the
10 principles of sanitary design. In 2003 the
principles were unveiled.
Dr. Dell Allen, vice president of technical services and food safety at Cargill Meat
Solutions, was honored with A.M.I.'s Scientific Achievement Award. Allen has spent 15
years leading Cargill's food safety efforts.
During the North American Meat Processors annual convention held this past October, several new board members and officers were elected. Four members were
elected for three-year terms and seven were
re-elected. The Board's officers were also
voted in.
Members serving new three-year terms
include: Dale Travis of Travis Meats,Inc.;
Brian Oedzes of Dutch Valley Veal; Alan
Kulakofsy of Ak-sar-ben Beef Co.; and Tom
Summers of Chicago Steaks. Greg Martin
of Silverton Ridge Farms Co. was selected
to serve a two-year term.
Re-elected for additional three-year terms
were: Ron Boatwright of Freedman Cos.;
Chris Lindsay of Lindsay Foods; Chris
Gachot of Gashot & Gashot,Inc.; Don Macgregor of Macgregor's Meat & Seafood, Ltd.;
Gary Malenke of Sioux-Preme Pork Products; and Jim Maxey of Fresno Meat Co.
Officers for the board include: David
Kirsch of KBD, Inc., chairman; Bryan Saterbo of Colorado Boxed Beef Corp., president;
Jordan Dorfman of Chicago Meat Authority, vice president; John DeBenedetti of Del
Monte Foods, treasurer; and Brent Cator of
Cardinal Meats, assistant treasurer. M&P

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