This April marked five decades of Schwan’s Company making pizza at our manufacturing facility in Salina, Kansas. And this August, company leaders visited Salina to deliver an exciting announcement about plans to build a new 400,000-square-foot expansion at the pizza facility. The announcement was made at a special event, where company leaders were joined by government and civic officials at the Tony’s Pizza and Events Center to share details of the expansion and thank the Salina and greater Kansas community.

South Korea’s biggest food maker, CJ CheilJedang, is pushing overseas sales of frozen dumplings as part of its aggressive expansion drive. The company has gone on an acquisition spree in the U.S. and Asia, aiming to secure long-term growth by expanding beyond its domestic market of a little more than 50 million people.

Global employees of CJ Logistics are making educational videos for children. The videos are part of “The New Normal Talent Donation Volunteer Program” called “Book-Reading Language Village,” a volunteer activity in which CJ Logistics employees and senior volunteers from Yak-su Senior Welfare Center read foreign language fairy tales to local children.

South Korea’s CJ CheilJedang Corp. enjoyed a stay-at-home boon from virus outbreak, reaping the best-ever quarterly earnings in the second quarter on surge in demand for ready meals at home and abroad. The food giant disclosed Tuesday that it recorded 384.9 billion won ($324.7 million) in consolidated operating income for the second quarter ended June 30, up 39.5 percent from the first quarter and 119.5 percent from a year earlier.

Schwan’s Company, a leading food producer in the United States, has announced plans to build a new 400,000-square-foot expansion at its pizza-manufacturing facility in Salina, Kansas. The announcement of the project comes as the company celebrates the 50th year of operating a pizza production facility in Salina. Company leaders joined government and civic officials at the Tony’s Pizza and Events Center today to share details of the expansion and thank the Salina and greater Kansas community.

Schwan’s Food Service, Inc. announced today that it has joined forces with fellow CJ CheilJedang (CJCJ) subsidiary, TMI Trading, to offer a wide array of 100-plus authentic Asian food menu solutions for foodservice operators in the United States. Together, CJCJ, Schwan’s and TMI are bringing their complementary Asian food heritages, expertise and capabilities to market as a single portfolio to drive Asian category growth for foodservice distributors and operators nationwide.

Surging demand for ready-to-eat food as people stay indoors because of pandemic restrictions has helped the shares of a South Korean food company more than double in the past four months. CJ CheilJedang Corp. has risen 135% since March 19, beating a 54% gain in the benchmark Kospi index. While the company was helped by the absence of severe lockdowns in South Korea, from where it draws about half of its sales, the real boost came from abroad.

Since COVID-19, employees and businesses across the U.S. have had to adjust to new ways of operating. At Schwan’s Company, this includes our summer internship program, which is being facilitated virtually with interns working remotely in their homes. Earlier this summer, we welcomed 20 interns, who are working in various departments throughout the company including marketing, food safety & quality, finance, engineering, human resources, information services and more.

Tous Les Jours, which also has locations in California, New York, Texas, Massachusetts and Illinois, specializes in baked goods. There are over 300 menu items to choose from, including buttercream cakes, croissants, whipped cream pan bread, macrons and more. The new locale has gotten good reviews thus far, with a four-star rating out of three reviews on Yelp.

This week, the Manufacturing Institute announced that Senior Director of Customer Logistics & Operations Kim Brunner will be honored as a recipient of the Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Ahead Award. She is one of 130 women in the manufacturing industry to receive this honor for their demonstrated leadership and excellence in their careers.