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Brandy McMullen has been named general office manager of Choptank Transport’s Tampa, Fla., office.
The Tyler Phipps Memorial Scholarship Foundation, Nixa, Mo., is again offering a $3,500 scholarship to a high school senior looking to pursue further education in the agriculture industry.
Package Containers Inc. has hired David Moen as regional sales manager and retail director.
Dallas-based DMA Solutions has chosen nine students from Texas A&M University to attend the upcoming Viva Fresh Produce Expo in San Antonio.
J&J Distributing, St. Paul Minn., has made some personnel changes.
Eddie Lund has been promoted to president of Allen Lund Co., the transportation company his father founded in 1976.
Market Fresh Produce has hired Sherri Zintel as the manager of inventory systems at the company’s Tampa, Fla., facility.
Alex Ott is leaving the California Apple Commission and other commodity boards to become the full-time executive director of the American Pecan Council.
After 45 years in the produce industry and selling a world of onions, Chris Woo is ready to retire.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking four importers to fill seats on the National Watermelon Promotion Board.
Apple grower-shippers in New York report a promising bloom set up by near perfect weather throughout the state in May.
Steve Lutz, the Produce Marketing Association’s regional vice president-U.S. and Canada West, has ended his affiliation at CMI Orchards.
Sun Pacific, marketer of Cuties-brand clementines, plans to grow export sales, naming two employees who will lead that charge.
Delightful Quality Produce Company has hired a new vice president of sales and business development.
Rio Rico, Ariz.-based The Sykes Company, announced today that it has selected Lesley Sykes — daughter of company founder and president Bill Sykes — as executive vice president.
Armed with a slow Southern drawl and a quick mind, Charles Hall has a singular focus on the needs of Georgia growers.
Salinas, Calif.-based D’Arrigo Brothers of California has hired Cody Ramsey as foodservice manager and Shannon Aliotti as a sales representative.
As CEO of the JV Smith Cos., Vic Smith manages a growing operation that includes thousands of acres of both organic and conventional vegetable output.
Doing what the market wants has worked out well for John Gates, president of Lancaster Foods, Jessup, Md.
If he weren’t division vice president, East sales for Earthbound Farm, Glenn Daniels would like to be a coach or a teacher.
Since Jesus Gonzalez grew up in Nogales, Ariz., perhaps it is not surprising that he found his start in the produce industry. The fact that he stayed in it, he says, is because the business lit a fire in him.
Although he comes from a family involved in construction, not produce, Chris Glynn sees a lot of similarities between the two.
Litehouse president and CEO Jim Frank plans to retire, and executive vice president Kelly Prior has been named interim president of the salad dressing company.
Q Laboratories Inc. has named Jason Brown manager of its Analytical Chemistry Department.
Jim Allen, vice president of marketing for New York Apple Sales and former president of the state’s apple association, has been honored by the New York State Agricultural Society.
J&J Family of Farms, Westlake, Fla., has made personnel changes.
Allen Lund Co., La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., has promoted Todd Piccola in the Rochester, N.Y., office and Greg Babiarz in the Charlotte, N.C., office.
Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce’s GoodFarms brand has been recognized for social responsibility efforts by adopting Equitable Food Initiative practices.