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When it comes to the “Big Game,” it really is super for avocado sales.

Sliced apple companies Farmington Fresh Cuts, Stockton, Calif., and Fresh Innovations, Oxnard, Calif., are merging.

Kwik Trip convenience stores have removed Del Monte vegetable trays after Wisconsin and Minnesota health officials said 14 consumers contracted cyclospora infections.

The Star Group is taking its greenhouse living lettuce line one step farther, cutting, washing and offering the lettuce in five new blends under the Inspired Leaves brand.

Pleasant Prairie, Wis.-based Good Foods is launching Avocado Mash, a blend of organic hass avocados, lemon juice, sea salt and black pepper.

Dustin Hahn is the new West Coast sales director of Naturipe Avocado Farms, Salinas, Calif.

AgroFresh Solutions Inc. and Del Monte Fresh Produce NA are collaborating to give retailers tools to extend the shelf life of bananas across the country.

Demand in the eastern U.S. has seen movement from Fallbrook, Calif.-based Del Rey Avocado’s Vineland, N.J. facility grow so rapidly, it’s expanding after 18 months.

Color, price and visibility will sell plenty of table grapes at retail, California growers and shippers say.

Potatoes USA has hired Kayla Dome as global marketing manager for the group’s retail sector.