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Business relationships blossom when people spend quality time together. That’s why quality time is the central, unique promise of new micro-event series Lobby Bar Live.
The National Mango Board (NMB) announced Albertsons Companies as its recipient of the 2021 Mango Retailer of the Year award.
Bayer, in collaboration with Nature’s Reward and the United Fresh Start Foundation, is promoting a kid-friendly broccoli, just in time to celebrate National School Lunch Week, October 11-15.
Kwik Lok Corp, the global leader in package closures, today announced the availability of Eco-Lok, the first sustainable closure in Japan.
The Packer’s Tom Karst spoke Oct. 12 with Teresa Thorne, the executive director of the Alliance for Food and Farming.
The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA) will be celebrating its 52nd Nogales Fresh Produce Convention and Golf Tournament from November 4th – 6th, 2021 in the historical town of Tubac, Arizona.
Terra Exports is making an impact in the Avocado sector by launching its own, in-house brand of avocados called Avolicious.
Giddings Berries USA, the Monterey, CA-based subsidiary of Giddings Fruit, has strengthened its management team as it aggressively grows its presence and support to United States customers.
Episode 61 of the Tip of the Iceberg Podcast takes a turn toward a road less traveled and features a small farmer with a big digital presence: Liset Garcia of Sweet Girl Farms in Reedley, Calif.
The Senate passed a resolution recognizing October as California Farmer and Farmworker Month in perpetuity.
With both Florida and California orange output down by double-digit percentages, the total U.S. orange crop is forecast to be off 12% in 2021-22.
The purpose of this announcement is to advise you that Fullei Fresh is voluntarily recalling Bean Sprouts and Soy Sprouts as a precaution due to possible exposure to listeria monocytogenes.
The third annual National Fruits & Veggies Month (NFVM) campaign from the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) has officially wrapped and like previous campaigns, saw sweet success.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit 2014 set records and drew praise from exhibitors and attendees for its global reach.
ATLANTA — Cathy Burns says the Produce Marketing Association’s recently announced alliance with the Entertainment Resource Marketing Association is another tool produce marketers can use to build consumer demand.
Washington, D.C.-based United Fresh Produce Association and Newark, Del.-based Produce Marketing Association are once again looking at the potential for a merger.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Shrugging off worries about the potential disruptive effects of Hurricane Matthew, the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit 2016 set a new East Coast attendance record.
The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation is improving school garden learning, nutrition education, and expanding equitable access to food with $3M in grants to 115 nonprofit organizations.
The Packer is seeking thoughts and perspectives of organic marketers and buyers for special coverage of organic marketing in its Nov. 1 issue.
Institutional food operators often use traditional processes to procure products and take inventories.
ATLANTA — Tim Youmans traveled more than 2,400-miles cross-country for the fresh produce industry’s biggest annual trade show and found it well worthwhile.
Instead of pining for the “good old days” before the COVID-19 pandemic, Cathy Burns invited the industry to a “new extraordinary” in her State of the Industry address at the PMA’s Fresh Summit.
PMA’s 2019 Fresh Summit was a record-breaker. The event hit all the right notes, drawing a record attendance of nearly 24,000 attendees Oct. 17-19, according to PMA, and featuring just more than 1,200 exhibitors.
Pulling in about 21,000 attendees from 60 countries, the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit in Orlando was another success. It won praise for its programming, buyer presence and expo traffic.
With rising food prices playing a big role, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.4% in September after rising 0.3% in August.
Industry leader of value-added beets, Love Beets USA, has today launched their new venture, Offshoot Brands.
Three types of university/college scholarships are now available to students in the table grape growing regions of California.
Side Delights announces solutions for shoppers in response to post-pandemic spending and shopping trends.
Chilean industry leaders project that cherry exports to the U.S. will see substantial growth in 2021-22.