The Packer
Day’s Family Market, F.A.K. Logistics, Inc., and West Side Marketplace are new companies to the Market. Atlas Produce & Distribution Inc., Bruce Sweet Potato Inc. Little River Produce and others have updates.
Mission Produce Inc., Oxnard, is expanding its global avocado network with a partnership to market South African fruit to Europe and Asian markets, including China.
This year’s nominees for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award includes Sinclair International’s EcoLabel.
Nace Brian Cohen, who founded Progressive Produce in Los Angeles in 1967 with Charles Gilb, as a potato and onion company, has died.
A Boston-based investment company is enabling London-based Westfalia Fruit International Ltd. To expand its ability to supply global markets with avocados.
The Canadian Produce Marketing Association has launched an online Waste Efficiency Tool.
Exhibitors at The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo had plenty to talk, including new products.
Moxxy Marketing, Salinas, Calif., received an award for designs for sliced apples bags and applesauce containers for school lunches.
Patagonia Orchards LLC has added a second grower to boost its output of organic citrus.
This will be an exciting year for San Diego-based Organics Unlimited, said Mayra Velazquez de León, president and CEO.
Ocean Mist Farms now is receiving regular arrivals of organic asparagus out of Mexico, said Joseph Angelo, sales manager.
AgroFresh Solutions Inc., which markets SmartFresh and other products to prolong the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, plans to focus on sustainability and curbing food waste at Fruit Logistica.
Food safety-sanitation provider PSSI has rebranded sister company Packers Chemical Inc. as PSSI Chemical Innovations.
Sage Fruit Co. LLC has introduced a new line of 3-pound pouch bags for its organic apples with a 2-pound bag for the Honeycrisp variety
Dole Food Co. has discontinued its line of Dole Organic Salad Kits to concentrate on the development of other organic products.
Advance Transportation Systems, Inc. is a new company to the Market. Agro Merchants Group, Bay Valley Foods LLC, California Fresh Fruit Association, Crown Pacific International LLC, Organicos and others have updates.
Table grape breeder Sheehan Genetics LLC, Fresno, Calif., is building a research and development facility for new varieties for growers in California and the Americas.
The Food and Drug Administration has completed a traceback investigation into hepatitis A cases linked to fresh blackberries, but a single, common source of tainted blackberries was not found.
Rough weather during the U.S. potato harvest last fall continues to shake up the markets well into 2020, marketers say.
Delayed rain in Chile and Mexico and freezes in Southern California could mean the national market needs more volume from Southeastern berry growers.
Kool Logistics LLC, Nashville, has promoted John Druckenmiller to general manager.
Frank Yiannas, the Food and Drug Administration’s deputy commissioner for food policy and response and the former food safety expert at Walmart, is delivering the opening speech at the GS1 Connect 2020.
Main Street Produce, Santa Maria, Calif., has hired Roger Privett III as sales and business development manager.
A good produce manager, like a shrewd chess player, must always be thinking several steps ahead when it comes to the long-term outlook.
Pacific Mercantile Co., R&G Brothers Transportation, Samara Produce LLC, and Tian Shi Corporation are new companies to the Market. A Plus Vegetable, Brantley Farms, Terra Bella Greenhouses Inc. and other have updates.
It’s more difficult to grow organic berries in the humid, rainy Southeastern part of the U.S. compared to arid California, but growers in Florida are still increasing their stock.
Carrier Transicold has added three new models to its next-generation Supra series of diesel-powered truck refrigeration units.
There is no doubt the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, now called COVID-19, is having an impact on business activity around the globe.
Hazel Technologies reported successful trials on kiwifruit at the University of California-Davis and The Oppenheimer Group, which has been shipping treated kiwifruit.
For the third year, IFCO Systems is offering grower and retailer customers who use the company’s reusable plastic containers a certificate noting its sustainability initiatives.