The announcement of The Kraft Heinz Company’s senior leadership team marks another major milestone in the soon-to-be-completed merger.

The North American Tea Championship (NATC) --- an independent and professionally-judged tea competition in North America --- named the 23 best, premium iced teas. The evaluation was held June 11 - 12 in Montebello, Calif. at the Wilbur Curtis headquarters, and all of the high-quality winning teas are commercially available in the marketplace. Visit TeaChampionship.com.

The company’s new plans for creating long-term value center on a more aggressive approach to cost reduction, growing consumer brands (Consumer Foods segment) and Lamb Weston (within the Commercial Foods segment), as well as balanced capital allocation. Details to be shared at an investor event later this year.

The USDA program will help make authentic Chobani® Greek Yogurt available for nutrition professionals to put on school menus nationwide – allowing children to have healthy and delicious options for their lunch tray.

Elyse Lovett has joined the Kyowa Hakko USA Marketing Team in the role of Marketing Manager. Elyse will manage the marketing activities in North and South America.

Shamrock Farms milk and its 'spokescow' Roxie will move into select Walmart stores nationwide. The retailer will be offering 12-oz single serve sizes of Shamrock Farms' protein-packed regular, chocolate and strawberry milk.

This transition will be effective August 3, 2015.

Anheuser-Busch announced it will invest more than $1.5 billion in its U.S. brewing, agriculture, packaging and distributing operations by 2018. These investments will support growth of its brands and reinforce the beer company's commitment to the U.S. communities where it operates through local spending and jobs. The leading beer company plans to spend an estimated $850 million on brewery and packaging expansion projects, $220 million on product innovation initiatives and $720 million in sustaining and increasing efficiency of its existing footprint.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of One World Foods, Inc., seller of Stubb's barbeque sauces ("Stubb's"), a privately held company located in Austin, Texas.

General Mills Cereals has committed to removing artificial flavors and colors from artificial sources from the rest of its cereals in response to consumers' changing preferences. Today, more than 60% of General Mills Cereals like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Original Cheerios are already without artificial flavors and colors from artificial sources and have been that way for a long time.