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Miller Quality Produce Inc. started in 1936 with Charles Miller peddling fruits and vegetables on the streets of Cleveland from a horse-drawn wagon.

It۪s been a tumultuous year for the Cleveland Produce Terminal.

The Sanson Co. is expanding again.

Catch a couple quick briefs produce wholesalers in Columbus, Ohio.

Business seems to be suffering a summer slump for some Los Angeles-area produce companies, but suppliers say business overall hasn۪t been bad, and they anticipate a strong fall selling season.

Fruit and vegetable prices were down nearly 4% in California during the first quarter of 2017, according to the FPFC Market Report compiled by Fusion Marketing for the Anaheim, Calif.-based Fresh Produce & Floral Counci

Catch up on the latest from produce companies in the Los Angeles metro area.

Bryan Thornton, general manager of Coosemans Atlanta Inc. has some simple advice where the specialty produce business in Atlanta is concerned: Adapt or die.

Metropolitan Atlanta is growing faster than nearly every other U.S. city, and opportunities for produce sales are growing with it, vendors there say.

There’s always something going on at the Atlanta State Farmers Market.

Business updates on companies featured in The Packer's Atlanta Know Your Market section

Sid Wainer & Son has completed a 64,000-square-foot expansion to its New Bedford, Mass., facility.

Massachusetts has the nation’s fourth-lowest unemployment rate at 2.9% — well under the nation’s 4.7% average. Although those numbers indicate strength in the state’s economy, it also poses a challenge for emplo

Massachusetts has 170 more restaurants than it did a year ago, and sales are expected to increase from $14 billion in 2016 to $17 billion this year.

Not long ago, things were vastly different for terminal market-based produce companies. An ever-changing environment has forced distributors to adapt.

Boston’s minority population is growing and along with it is the demand for specialty produce.

Massachusetts is the best state in the nation, according to a recent analysis by U.S. News and World Report that recently ranked the states on a wide range of criteria from business and health care to education and crim

Summer is here, but wholesalers on the New England Produce Center, Chelsea, Mass., said the local deal won’t necessarily be the antidote they need for a months-long lull.

Business updates on companies featured in The Packer's Boston Know Your Market section

T.M.Kovacevich-Philadelphia Inc., a wholesale produce marketing company, has named Tom Kovacevich as president and chief operating officer.

Catch up on news from wholesalers and distributors operating in Houston, San Antonio, Waco and other Texas metro centers.

Buoyed by hosting recent important events, Philadelphia's produce economy remains strong.

Wholesalers that deliver produce to the millions of people living in and working in Atlanta and the Southeast report favorable business.

With Philadelphia's close geographic proximity to major East Coast growing regions, the city's produce wholesalers are in a favorable position to distribute local produce to the area's many retail an

Situated in close proximity to major local growing regions, wholesalers on the Atlanta State Farmers Market in Forest Park source and distribute high volumes of local and regional produce.

Specialty produce is seeing strong demand in the Philadelphia and northeastern markets.

The foodservice business is doing well in the Northeast, distributors report.

In Atlanta, the capitol of the Southeast, grocery retailers experience brisk business.

In February, Athena Farms plans to celebrate its 20th year in business. Meanwhile, Nickey Gregory is adding warehouse space. Read all about it.

Business updates on companies featured in The Packer's St. Louis market profile.

This summer, the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market turned five years old.

A&J Produce Corp. is making improvements to its operations on the Hunts Point Terminal Market.

The Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market is celebrating its fifth year.

Catch up on wholesalers and distributors operating in the Midwest.

New York City's last milk processing plant is shutting down after nearly a century in operation, putting more than 270 people out of work.

Animal rights advocates will gather on Beacon Hill in Boston to press lawmakers on a proposal that would ban the sale of food products from farms that keep animals in small, restrictive cages.

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The head of Boston's Inspectional Services Department has followed through on his pledge to eat at the city's embattled Cleveland Circle Chipotle location.

A Boston Chipotle restaurant where 136 people fell ill with norovirus is being allowed to reopen.

About once a week the phone rings at the Dill Pickle Food Co-op in Chicago’s artsy Logan Square neighborhood with the same question: Got milk? Organic, to be exact.

CME Group Inc. announced Wednesday it will close most of its futures pits in Chicago and New York by July 2.

San Antonio, Texas, will host hundreds of cattle producers during the upcoming Cattle Industry Annual Convention & NCBA Trade Show Feb. 4-7.

A Los Angeles-area company is recalling more than 48,000 pounds of frozen beef and pork that may be contaminated with metal.

The beef checkoff hosted a “Meat Your Beef” channel influencer immersion event in the Boston area.

A Northern California slaughterhouse involved in a massive beef recall processed cows with cancer while U.S. livestock inspectors took lunch breaks and later distributed the diseased cattle.

On a beautiful spring day in Northern California, the West Coast Brangus Breeders Association (WCBBA) hosted their Spring 2014 Field Day.

A Northern California meat processing plant that was shuttered by federal inspectors Monday because of unsanitary conditions has reopened.

Edel, a lifelong Chicagoan, is the founder and executive director of The Plant, an evolving vertical farm housed in an old meatpacking plant in Chicago’s once-booming Union Stock Yards.

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