Canton ethanol plant up and running Nov 10, 2008
Werth has been in the ethanol industry for 27 years including 25 years at MGP Ingredients, an ethanol plant in Pekin. The local plant also will produce 350 tons of distillers dried grains (DDGS) a day at maximum capacity. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Pekin plant to lay off 40 employees Nov 7, 2008
PEKIN MGP Ingredients Inc. will cut about 40 of its 140 workers at its Pekin facility this month. The 40 job cuts in Pekin are part of corporate-wide cuts totaling 70 to 80 employees. (Pekin Times, IL)
Coffey Named Officer At MGP Ingredients Oct 18, 2008
Source: MGP Ingredients, Inc. ... Oct. 17, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of MGP Ingredients, Inc. (NasdaqGS: - ) has approved the appointment of Don Coffey, Ph ... MGP Ingredients, Inc. Steve Pickman 913-367-1480. (Primezone Releases)
Union Local Accepts Labor Agreement Reinstatement Offer at MGP Ingredients, Inc. Atchison, Kan., Plant Oct 11, 2008
Union Local Accepts Labor Agreement Reinstatement Offer at MGP Ingredients, Inc. Atchison, Kan ... Union Local Accepts Labor Agreement Reinstatement Offer at MGP Ingredients, Inc. Atchison, Kan ... Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) announced that members of Local #74D of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union voted today to accept the company's offer to reinstate its recently expired labor agreement at the company's Atchison plant. (PR Newswire)
MGP Ingredients, Inc. Schedules Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter Financial Release Date, Conference Call Aug 23, 2008
Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) will report its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter financial results prior to the market's opening on Tuesday, August 26, to be followed by an investor conference call that day at 10 a.m. central time ... In business for more than half a century, MGP Ingredients, Inc. is a recognized pioneer in the development and production of natural grain-based products, including specialty wheat proteins and starches and food grade and fuel grade... (PR Newswire)
Pekin MGP Ingredients plans $100M expansion Jul 16, 2008
Pekin MGP Ingredients plans 100M expansion ... PEKIN A 100 million project at MGP Ingredients Inc. in Pekin is critical, the company says, to its continued operation ... MGP Ingredients was founded in 1941. (Pekin Times, IL)
Chamber elects directors, officers Apr 23, 2008
The meeting and reception was sponsored by Aventine, Midwest Generation, Methodist Medical Center, MGP Ingredients, Inc., Herget Bank, Pekin Insurance, Advanced Medical Transport, Excalibur Seasoning, Gallatin River, Illinois American Water, Monge Property Management Company, Pekin Daily Times, Preston-Hanley Funeral Home, Udry Jewelers, and Velde GM Super Centre. Comments. (Pekin Times, IL)
Semi-Annual Changes to the NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Index and the NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Index Mar 17, 2008
As a result of the evaluation MGP Ingredients, Inc. (NasdaqGS: - ) will be removed from the Index. Clean Edge, a leading clean-tech research and publishing firm, released its annual Clean-Energy Trends 2008 report earlier this month. (Primezone Releases)
Beware of These Strong Buys Mar 8, 2008
$7 online stock trades. What "green tech" will and won't do for your portfolio. (MSNBC -- Business)
Global Protein Ingredients Market to Cross $18 Billion by 2010, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. Feb 26, 2008
Key players dominating the global protein ingredients market include Archer Daniels Midland, Armor Proteins, Bunge Alimentos SA, Burcon NutraScience, Cargill Health & Food Technologies, Dean Foods Company, Gelita Group, Doves Farm Foods, DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition, George Weston Foods, Kellogg Company, Kerry Ingredients Inc., Kraft Foods, Manildra Group, MGP Ingredients, Omega Protein Corporation, So Good International, Sonac BV, Sterling Gelatin, Tessenderlo Group, and Wacker Chemical... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
2007 was a busy year for FDA import alerts Jan 30, 2008
Demand for U.S. wheat gluten, a product used in many foods, including bread, has soared 30% since April when the FDA restricted imports of Chinese vegetable proteins, says Steve Pickman of MGP Ingredients, a domestic producer. From September through November, inbound-U.S. shipments of Chinese wheat gluten fell to 2. (USA Today)
Is Ethanol a Viable Alternative? Nov 26, 2007
The small cap stocks selected from across the board on Nov. 23 are Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. (AVR); Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE); MGP Ingredients (MGPI); Pacific Ethanol (PEIX): The Andersons Inc. (ANDE) and VeraSun Energy (VSE). Losses in share value range from 58 percent to 87. (Newsmax)
Uncertainty blocks Chinese wheat gluten Sep 24, 2007
Pre-recall, Chinese gluten made up 10% of the U.S. gluten market, says Steve Pickman of U.S.-based MGP Ingredients. It reported a 52% rise in domestic wheat gluten sales for the fiscal year ended July 1. (USA Today -- Money)
Robert Zonneveld Named CFO at MGP Ingredients; Brian Cahill to Head Company's Distillery Business Aug 31, 2007
Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ladd Seaberg, chairman and chief executive officer of MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGPI), today announced the appointment of Robert Zonneveld to the position of vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer effective Sept. 17 ... "Robert brings a very impressive background and tremendous skills in global finance to his new position at MGP Ingredients," Seaberg said ... "The direction of MGP Ingredients and the initiatives that the... (PR Newswire)
A Beer Market for Mergers Aug 14, 2007
You Are Viewing: Mics Suggest a Beer Stock Worth Acquiring (Molson Coors, Build a Bear, K-Swiss, MGP Ingredients, Scholastic). (SmartMoney)
Pekin Park band starts new season Jun 21, 2007
Sponsors include CEFCU, Caterpillar, MGP Ingredients Inc., AmerenCILCO, Herget Bank, Gallatin River Communications and Aventine Renewable Energy. Park District director Blackwell said he was pleased with the community response to requests for funding. (Pekin Times, IL)
Flaw in the ointment Jun 15, 2007
"It was an outright effort to fool US buyers," says Steve Pickman, the vice-president of corporate communications at MGP Ingredients, America's largest wheat gluten producer. One trail led to a Chinese exporter, the Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Filling the Gluten Gap May 23, 2007
You Are Viewing: Ban on Chinese Gluten Should Aid U.S. Supplier (MGP Ingredients, American Woodwork, Fred's, Longs Drug Store, Journal Communications). (SmartMoney)
U.S. wheat gluten industry decimated by cheap imports May 5, 2007
The nation's largest gluten maker, MGP Ingredients Inc., is based in Atchison, Kan ... The company has the capacity to produce 120 million pounds of gluten in year but the plants are running at only 20 percent of that capacity, said Steve Pickman, MGP Ingredients' vice president for corporate relations. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Pet food scandal highlights gains made by foreign wheat processors Apr 18, 2007
Last year, wheat gluten from China averaged 43 cents per pound at the port of arrival, said Steve Pickman , MGP Ingredients vice president of corporate relations ... MGP Ingredients is the third-largest employer in Atchison, a town of 10,000 that is best known as the birthplace of aviator Amelia Earhart ... Come summer, trucks will form a bumper-to-bumper cordon around MGP Ingredients' processing plant, which mills the grain and extracts such products as wheat starch , gluten , bran, and mill... (Boston Globe)
Un-American Pet Food: Apr 4, 2007
Explainer thanks Joshua Lagos at the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, Ronald Madl of the Bioprocessing and Industrial Value Added Center at Kansas State University, and Steve Pickman of MGP Ingredients. Related in SlateMichelle Tsai what's in a can of dog food. (Slate)
Rat poison found in pet food Mar 24, 2007
China is the third-largest exporter to the USA, after Australia and the European Union, which is the largest, estimates MGP Ingredients, of Kansas, the largest single U.S. wheat gluten producer. It didn't supply Menu with wheat gluten. (USA Today)
MGP Ingredients' Wheat Gluten Not Linked to Major Pet Food Recall Mar 22, 2007
March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tim Newkirk, president and chief operating officer of MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGPI), a leading U.S. producer of wheat gluten, today issued a statement emphasizing that the company has no link to the pet food recall involving Canadian-based Menu Foods ... "I want to assure pet owners, our customers, stockholders and employees that the safety and quality of wheat gluten produced by MGP Ingredients is not in question and that our product is not associated... (PR Newswire)
Close call for local cat amid pet food scare Mar 21, 2007
-based MGP Ingredients, but hundreds of brokers that sell both domestic and imported wheat gluten. MGP President Tim Newkirk said Tuesday that MGP is not a supplier to Menu Foods. (Kansas City Star)
MGPI Begins Move to Recently Constructed Technical Center at Newly Named Cray Business Plaza Feb 10, 2007
Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGP Ingredients, Inc. (MGPI)(Nasdaq: ) announced that construction of its new technical innovation center in Atchison has been completed and that work on the company's new corporate office building will be finished next month as planned ... " Through extensive research, MGPI scientists over the years have developed a wide array of ingredient solutions, principally wheat proteins and starches, for use by manufacturers of food, pet, personal care and natural... (PR Newswire)
