Retail
While it’s often used in sweet dishes and beverages – smoothies, breakfast bowls, ice cream, tarts, cocktails – some chefs are branching out.
In late 2019, CMI Orchards launched a digital marketing strategy designed to directly target apple consumers and drive retail sales.
Chiquita is encouraging fans to get into the thankful spirit by reminding them that a small celebration can be just as festive as long as you’re celebrating with fall favorite recipes and sharing them.
Catch up with the notable news of the week in this conversation between The Packer’s editors Tom Karst, Chris Koger, Ashley Nickle and Amy Sowder.
After securing a $1 million co-investment from the Digital Technology Supercluster, Wisebox Solutions’ DirectFood.store is expanding with its first location outside Canada to provide Charleston, S.C.
USA Pears is excited to announce a new partnership with Cabot Cheese and California Walnuts.
The mix of apple varieties is all shook up compared with 30 years, and Don Roper believes that is a good thing.
Walmart reported $130.4 billion in revenue for the second quarter of its fiscal year, up 1.8% from the same time in 2018.
Naturipe’s new snacks feature berries, grapes, nuts and cheese, focusing on health and convenience.
More than 19,000 tons of Chilean kiwifruit had been shipped to North America in early August, with supplies expected into October.
It’s back-to-school time, and Mastronardi Produce’s Sunset brand has new healthy snacks suitable for lunchboxes.
Stater Bros., San Bernardino, Calif., has donated $100,000 and more than 150,000 pounds of fresh produce and other food to food banks in its area this summer.
Vegetable “pasta” maker Cece’s Veggie Co., Austin, Texas, made Inc. Magazine’s annual list of fastest-growing private companies, with a three-year revenue growth of 23,880% to put it at No. 3.
Online grocery spending has grown 15% in the past year, and a recent move by Walmart points to even bigger growth to come.
Setton Farms and HMC Farms won kudos from a judge’s panel of retail buyers at the California Food Expo.
The Reusable Packaging Association chose The Kroger Co. with reusable packaging supplier Polymer Logistics as the winner of its 2019 Excellence in Reusable Packaging award program.
Hoping to bring the same excitement to the grape category as it did to apples with Jazz and Envy, T&G Global is moving into grapes with its Orchard Rd brand.
Kroger is rolling out avocados with Apeel Sciences’ shelf-life extender in 1,100 stores, and plans to stock Apeel limes and asparagus in Cincinnati stores this fall.
As Thanksgiving and winter holidays approach, the National Mango Board wants consumers to know that pineapples aren’t the only fruit that pairs well with ham.
Stemilt Growers is launching Promosaurus, a campaign to help retailers build large apple and pear displays, and celebrating 30 years of organic growing at Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
Thomas Fresh, Calgary, Alberta, is bringing back pink packaging on onions to raise awareness of breast cancer.
Kingsville, Ontario-based Mucci Farms received Most Sustainable Packaging honors for its Simple Snack lineup at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 17-19.
Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, was recognized as having the Best Overall Product Promo at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit for Wow berries.
POM Wonderful is launching a new marketing campaign for its pomegranate juice, focusing on the health benefits of antioxidants.
DelFrescoPure, Kingsville, Ontario, has taken its integrated pest management program from greenhouse vegetables and applied it to strawberries.
Naturipe is introducing a proprietary raspberry, the Pacific Centennial, designed to please consumer flavor demands, adapt to growing environments and please retailers with enhanced shelf stability.
FiveStar Gourmet Foods is expanding its Simply Fresh snack lines with 25 new stock-keeping units for retail.
Curation Foods is unveiling a new look for its Eat Smart brand at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit expo.
Two-time NBA World Champion Danny “Green Ranger” Green of the Los Angeles Lakers has partnered with Blanc Vineyards, Delano Farms and Four Star Fruit to encourage children to live healthy lifestyles.
Year-over-year retail food price increases continue to be tame and more of the same is expected for 2020.