MGP Ingredients News

It's in your purse, at the office and even at the airport. It's hand sanitizer, and in our H1N1 world, the Center for Disease Control recommends using it to stay healthy.

According to GuruFocus Insider Data , the largest CFO buys during the past week were CONSTELLATION ENERGY , DPL Inc.

CFO of MGP Ingredients Inc. Don Tracy buys 5,000 shares of MGPI on 12/10/2009 at an average price of $7.63 a share.

An executive of Diamond Pet Foods, which announced a recall of two varieties of cat food, said Thursday the tainted products were manufactured at the same Gaston plant that in 2005 produced a toxic dog food responsible for the deaths or illnesses of dozens of dogs around the nation.

MGP Ingredients Inc. and an affiliate of Seacor Energy Inc. have formed a joint venture to reactivate distillery operations at MGP's plant in Pekin, Ill.

The Wichita Convention and Visitors Bureau will have representatives of hotels, attractions, venues and service providers at the Great Overland Stations, 701 N. Kansas Ave., from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with information for groups that want to book meetings, retreats and conventions.

Atchison, KSa ' David Dykstra has been promoted to vice president of alcohol sales and marketing at MGP Ingredients, Inc.

Tim Newkirk, president and chief executive officer of MGP Ingredients, Inc. has announced the appointment of Don Tracy to the position of vice president of finance and chief financial officer effective Friday, Nov.

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson named William Thornton as acting secretary of the state's Department of Commerce , effective Nov.

Atchison, KSa ' MGP Ingredients, Inc. today held its annual meeting of stockholders in Atchison.

Daryl R. Schaller, Ph.D., president of Schaller Consulting, Homosassa, Fla., and Linda E. Miller, independent marketing consultant and a member of the University of Kansas engineering management faculty, have been re-elected to the Board of Directors of MGP Ingredients, Inc.

MGP Ingredients, Inc. today announced that the company will host a webcast of its Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held Thursday, October 22, 2009 beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the Presbyterian Community Center, Atchison, Kansas.

MGP Ingredients, Inc. reported Sept. 10 a net loss of $2,916,000, or $0.18 in diluted loss per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended June 30, 2009.

MGP Ingredients Inc. says it lost less money in the fourth quarter even as its revenue fell by more than 50 percent as the company dropped unprofitable parts of its business.

MGP Ingredients Inc. posted a $2.9 million loss in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with last yeara TMs $10 million fourth-quarter loss.

A preview of whisper numbers and earnings reports from S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 companies expected to report this week Investors will be looking to take advantage of the price volatility associated with these reports both before and after earnings are released.

MGP Ingredients Inc. Chairman Ladd Seaberg has retired from the company's board.

The chairman of MGP Ingredients Inc. has stepped down after almost three years in the position and 40 years with the company.

MGP Ingredients Inc. sold its Kansas City, Kan., plant to Sergeant's Pet Care Products Inc.

An Omaha company has bought the Kansas City, Kan., facility that once made Greenies pet treats, idling 25 employees at the plant.