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“Now if you could just solve the yam/sweet potato confusion.”

Branded apples have disrupted core variety sales, and given retailers another tier of apples promote, along with core variety organic apples.

Ambrosia Gold. Kiku. Kanzi. Smitten. Jazz. Envy. Pacific Rose.

Jeff Pennington has joined Billerica, Mass.-based JOH as an account manager in the Great Lakes division.

Norfolk, Va.-based Military Produce Group LLC, has been awarded a 24-month contract with the Defense Commissary Agency to supply fresh produce to commissaries in the Eastern U.S.

Tasti-Lee Tomatoes are now available as a grape tomato snacking variety, marketed as Tasti-Wees.

With its Small-Bite Campaign, Tasteful Selections is thinking small, but going big.

On Shelf Marketing Group, aka OSMG, has hired Woody Norris as executive vice president of business development.

Fresh apple shippers on Jan. 1 had almost 92 million bushels (42 pounds) in fresh and controlled-atmosphere storage, a 16% drop than at the same time in early 2018.

Shuman Produce, grower-shipper of Vidalias and other onions year-round, is rebranding, with a new trade name of Shuman Farms, and has numerous personnel changes, primarily in sales and marketing.