EmpowerFresh executives featured its cloud-based software for managing fresh produce department operations at the March 25-26 Associated Wholesale Grocers' seventh annual Innovation Showcase.
A digital printing process from Georgia-Pacific allows shippers to use full-color graphics on corrugated packaging, such as bins for watermelons and other large containers.
Tropical fruit grower, packer and shipper WP Produce, Miami, is kicking off its 2019 season with green-skinned avocado varieties that will be available year-round.
Packaging company CKF, Hansport, Nova Scotia, is one of 10 nominees for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award for a new design of Earthcycle compostable and recyclable packaging for strawberries.
Vic Savanello, vice president of produce merchandising for Greensboro, N.C.-based The Fresh Market, expects that flavorful varieties, tropical fruits and fresh-cut vegetables will trend in 2019.
Research firm Brick Meets Click projects online grocery sales will grow 15% in 2019, with providers that offer delivery and pickup expected to grow online sales 25-30%.
Holi-daze. As the year’s end fast approaches, and two holiday waves are about to crash into the produce aisle, I’m reminded of doling out a few tidbits of advice to new produce managers flush with stress.
Guadalupe, Calif.-based Apio has recalled several Eat Smart salad products after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency informed the company that a random sample tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
NEW YORK — Wilda Ortega took all sorts of specialty produce out of display baskets to show visitors at the Coosemans New York booth at the New York Produce Show and Conference.
Editor-in-chief Tom Karst and retail editor Ashley Nickle discuss the New York Produce Show and the latest updates in the Food and Drug Administration's investigation into the outbreak tied to romaine lettuce.
The FDA has named Adam Bros. Farm in Santa Barbara County as one potential source of the E. coli outbreak linked to romaine — but it cautions that the finding does not explain all the illnesses in the outbreak.
LGS Specialty Sales, New Rochelle, N.Y., is expanding its Spanish fruit imports with lemons, clementines and Vanilla Persimmons, also known as rojo brillante.
Which regions and demographics purchase the most mushrooms? Designer and copy editor Amelia Freidline and retail editor Ashley Nickle discuss in the latest episode of Millennials Eat.
It was always interesting, when trying to explain how our business works to someone, that they were shocked at the way agreements between buyer and seller are reached.
From hurricanes in the southeast to wildfires and Santa Ana winds in California and rain in Texas, weather and natural disasters have greatly reduced the availability of collard greens in the holiday season.
In the wake of the food safety travails of romaine lettuce in recent weeks — and industry navel-gazing about whether health authorities overreacted — I ask this question: What about the good news?
Bill Bishop, chief architect of Chicago-based retail consulting firm Brick Meets Click, describes the market as one with significant price competition.