Meat & Poultry

Stampede Meat, Inc., a leading provider of beef, pork, and chicken protein products for the restaurant, hospitality and retail industry, has obtained a new secured revolving credit facility and a term loan in the mid eight figures from Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, part of Wells Fargo & Company. The maturity date of the credit facility was recently extended to January 2015 and the credit line was recently increased by low eight figures. …

Texan beef lovers now have even more reason to head into Ye Ole Butcher Shop, a local meat market stationed in the heart of Plano, Texas. Chisholm Trail Longhorn Beef partnered with Ye Ole Butcher Shop to provide its healthier, even tastier red meats to customers. …

Wixon, a manufacturer of seasonings, flavors, and technologies for the food and beverage industry, announced the appointment of Michael Walters as Vice President of Sales & Marketing. …

The North American Meat Association (NAMA) Conference on Prevention of Shiga-Toxin Producing E. coli (STEC) for Beef Further Processors will be held Oct. 2-3, 2012, at the Four Points by Sheraton near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. NAMA is partnering with 11 other meat industry organizations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), seven trade media and the Beef Industry Food Safety Council (BIFSCo) to host the event. …

Rittberger Meats is recalling about 9,000 pounds of fully cooked deli items due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Retail packages of wieners, natural casing wieners, grillers, straight HB roll and kielbasa would bear the ODA mark of inspection and “Est. 13” and would have been purchased after June 25. …