The Packer - Plantains

  • Packer Stories

  • Ayco Farms expands production, enters new lines

    10/20/2011

    ATLANTA — Ayco Farms Inc. is expanding acreage, offering new commodities, building a distribution center and importing product into more ports.


  • Turbana celebrates 40 years

    10/11/2010

    A leading banana marketer plans to blow out 40 candles on its birthday cake at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit 2010 in Orlando, Fla.


  • Marketers try to cash in on plantain's versatility

    10/07/2010

    The trouble with plantains is that the more beat up they look, the sweeter they taste.


  • Turbana, Fyffes partnership gets into melon deal

    02/13/2006

    (Feb. 13) CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Four months after Europe’s top banana marketer bought into it, Turbana Corp. is expanding into new commodities and eyeing other products — and other companies.


  • J&C Enterprises opens New York office

    11/09/2004

    (Nov. 9) NEW YORK — To increase its presence in the Tri-State region, Miami-based tropicals importer J&C Enterprises Inc. has opened a New York office. The Bronx office opened Nov. 3 when New York office sales manager Roberto Soto moved his sales duties out of his home to an office seven blocks away from the Hunts Point Terminal Market.


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