Packer Insight — Women in Produce

This week's episode of Packer Insight focuses on the honorees of the annual Women in Produce special section that features influential industry leaders.

Editor-in-chief Tom Karst, retail editor Ashley Nickle and Northeast editor Amy Sowder discuss the women they interviewed for those articles and the notable accomplishments of the women selected.

To read the features in this series already published, check out the following links, and keep an eye out for more rolling out this week and next week. 

 

Women in Produce: Angela Fraser — Ask around about Angela Fraser, and you hear rave review after rave review. 

Women in Produce: Brittany Lee — Brittany Lee is a prime example of someone entrenched in the produce industry far beyond her own family business.

Women in Produce: Chelsea Consalo — Since graduating from college in 2014, Chelsea Consalo not only found her footing in her family business, she’s running at the front of the pack of young professionals in the fresh produce industry. 

 

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