California Avocado Month is June, and that means outreach to consumers involving social media influencers, recipes, public relations campaigns and more.

Los Angeles-based private equity company Butterfly has closed on the $510 million acquisition of Bolthouse Farms, Bakersfield, Calif.

Stop & Shop president Mark McGowan has elected to leave the company, and Giant Food president Gordon Reid will succeed him.

You’ve heard of razor-thin margins? That’s the grocery business.

Ensenada Best Produce LLC, Fidelity Melon and Silo Technologies are new companies to the Market. M. Levin and Company Inc., Sobeys West and Southern Valley Fruit & Vegetable Inc have been endorsed.

Dole is offering “Dad-friendly” recipes for Father’s Day in a tie-in with Disney’s “The Lion King.”