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California Giant Berry Farms has hired Alan Ediger as vice president of sales and Jay Brown as chief financial officer.

Mario Basciani, a mushroom grower known for his tireless work ethic and founder of Basciani Foods, has died.

Sev-Rend, Collinsville, Ill., has hired Karl Hertel as chief financial officer.

Randy Riley, Kroger’s director of produce merchandising, and Jason Fuller, vice president of GoldenSun Insights, are acquiring GoldenSun from owner Don Goodwin.

Mike Ecker, president of the Vineland Growers Co-operative, Jordan Station, Ontario, is the Canadian Produce Marketing Association’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree.

A tradition for the Eastern Produce Council, its annual golf outing, became much more this year for the organization, which typically has a calendar full of events.

SpartanNash has selected as its new president and CEO Tony Sarsam, who was most recently the CEO at Borden Dairy Co. and before that was CEO of Irwindale, Calif.-based produce industry company Ready Pac Foods.

The Packer’s 2020 West Coast Produce Expo is expanding as a free virtual event.

Avocado company Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., has hired Susie Rea in sales and business development.

Total losses from the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the Washington State’s potato industry is estimated to top $1 billion, according to a study by Washington State University.

Smurfit Kappa executive Juan Pablo Perez has been appointed as the president of the Corrugators Association of the Caribbean and Central and South America.

The Ontario Produce Marketing Association appointed two board members who will serve three-year terms.

Mike Preacher, the marketing director for Domex Superfresh Growers, Yakima Wash., is the new chairman of the U.S. Apple Association’s board of directors.

Good Foods, Pleasant Prairie, Wis., has appointed a board of directors to seek new opportunities and grow the brand objectively and strategically.

Farm Fresh Direct, Monte Vista, Colo., has promoted Lonnie Gillespie to a new position for the company, chief organic officer.

Julie Krivanek, whose Krivanek Consulting, specializes in strategic planning, management consulting and mergers and acquisitions, is launching a new service in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on business.

Sustainability often is defined as the triple bottom line of people, profit and planet. 

The Packer is accepting nominations for the 2020 Produce Marketer of the Year.

The Trump administration plans to take steps to protect U.S. growers of seasonal produce against what it calls threats of increased imports.

Sunkist Growers, Valencia, Calif., has hired Anne Goltz as senior manager of business development.