With the acquisition of Crowley Foods by HP Hood, Crowley's longtime president and CEO, Marty Margherio has left Crowley to take over as president of the Farmland Dairies LLC division of Parmalat USA. One of Margherio's first tasks will be to execute the sale of Farmland's stake in Milk Products of Alabama to National Dairy Holdings.

In the U.K., Arla Foods is building a new processing operation in central Scotland. Company officials say the plant will be capable of processing more than 100 million liters of milk annually.