Ashley Nickle

Ashley Nickle is a staff writer for The Packer. She started her journalism career while in college, working for three years as the Kansas State football and men’s basketball correspondent for The Associated Press after starting with the school paper. Two weeks after her graduation in 2013, she moved from Olathe, Kan., to Detroit to take a full-time job as a sports writer for CBS Detroit. She covered the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons, daily conducting interviews and writing articles while attending practices and games. A native of Olathe, Ashley returned to the Kansas City area in 2015 and did freelance work covering the Chiefs, Royals, and University of Kansas and Kansas State football for the Associated Press, the Kansas City Star and Chiefs Digest. She also worked as a copy editor for The Topeka Capital-Journal.

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BrandStorm is happening over Zoom this week, and speakers have provided a wealth of practical commentary on topics from empathy in marketing to planning the marketing budget to using data to make your case.
This is part two of a two-part report on takeaways from the first day of BrandStorm 2021. Check out takeaways 1-5 here.
The United Fresh Produce Association’s BrandStorm event takes place next week and aims to tackle a whole slew of topics relevant for marketers in 2021, from budget to empathy to sustainable packaging to digital media.
The Packer and Equitable Food Initiative have partnered on a new content series called People First: A Spotlight on Social Responsibility.
Lori Taylor, founder of The Produce Moms, has been named to the first-ever Forbes Next 1000 list, which recognizes “upstart entrepreneurs redefining the American dream.”
The seventh annual Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association conference will feature more than 50 speakers across sessions on topics from labor to online selling platforms to water scarcity.
Now available from Salinas, Calif.-based Church Brothers Farms is a new foodservice pack of the company’s Little Gem lettuce, marketed under the SweetHearts brand.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation has approved Matt Middleton, vice president of retail sales for Brea, Calif.-based Ventura Foods, as its new chairman of the board.
If you’re looking to stay current with trends and consume great content from fellow industry members, LinkedIn is the place to be, and these are a few of the people you’ll want to follow in 2021.
The Packer’s editor-in-chief Tom Karst, Northeast editor Amy Sowder and retail editor Ashley Nickle discuss the news of the week. For more details on all topics, check out these articles.