Sourcing for meal kit operations can be difficult, but the fresher the ingredients the better. Three e-commerce retailers led a panel July 12 at the Organic Produce Summit and talked about challenges and opportunities.
This wasn’t a granola organic event. The third annual Organic Produce Summit, July 11-12 in Monterey, showed that organic is an important part of the produce business, with the emphasis on the business.
Cindy Jewell’s produce story is inspiring, but it has themes many in the produce industry recognize. It’s a story of good fortune, hard work, overcoming obstacles and now teaching others.
Studies published in Business Week show that 62% of mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve the negotiated revenue, market share and profit increases.
Salinas, Calif.-based The Nunes Company is partnering again with celebrity Brooke Shields, who the company first started working with nearly 30 years ago.
Once the management practices and strategic plan is solid, and you have positioned the business to move forward with a liquidity event, what are the next steps?
The Packer’s 4th Annual West Coast Produce Expo attracted more exhibitors, attendees and buyers to its unique mix of business, networking and fun May 11-12.
C&C Produce celebrated its 25th anniversary with about 500 suppliers, customers, transportation partners and employees May 4 at its Kansas City headquarters.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Produce for Better Health Foundation has the destination: Double fruit and vegetable consumption. The plan to get there should emerge in the next year.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Fruits and vegetables are the retail stars in more ways than one, a panel of retailers said at the Produce for Better Health Foundation’s annual meeting April 3-6.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation is embarking on a year of refresh, as it announces a new marketing agency partner, Padilla and its FoodMinds division.
NASHVILLE — Watermelon grower-shipper Melon 1 has expanded its partnership with CHEP, which will now include on-site pallet storage and international shipments using CHEP pallets.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Meet Savannah Christensen, the 2018 National Watermelon Queen, who was named national queen at the National Watermelon Association’s 104th annual convention, Feb. 21-24.
SAN DIEGO — Giving kids access to fresh fruits and vegetables in schools through the government’s Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is just a step toward a greater goal.
Jamie Phillips, director of scientific affairs for SPINS Marketing, will give the opening keynote address Jan. 26 at the start of the education track at The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo.
J&J Family of Farms, Westlake, Fla., enters the organic business with a new brand, Farmganic. The new line starts with certified organic green peppers, yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers.
Sponsor Stemilt Growers Inc. and Peirone Produce and its partner retailers in the Northwest ran an Apple Cup competition to increase apple sales in October.