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While packaging costs continue to rise, innovation is tamping them down, at least somewhat, produce marketers and packaging manufacturers say.

Catch up with the notable news of the week in this conversation between The Packer’s editors Tom Karst, Chris Koger, Ashley Nickle and Amy Sowder.

Produce suppliers are working with packaging manufacturers to limit the excess materials that wind up in the waste stream.

Ark Foods has set out to challenge what grocery shoppers think when they hear “bell peppers.”

The packaging industry has an important teaching mission, in terms of recycling its products, marketers say.

Side Delights announced the launch of their new store locator function on the Grown Where it Matters website.

After securing a $1 million co-investment from the Digital Technology Supercluster, Wisebox Solutions’ DirectFood.store is expanding with its first location outside Canada to provide Charleston, S.C.

Dole Fresh Vegetables has added three salads to its FreshTakes Bowl Salads line.

Los Angeles-based grower/packer/shipper Progressive Produce will see an expanded organic Heirloom Navel orange program towards the end of the year and into the first quarter of 2021.

A coordinated strategy of aggressive retail push and consumer pull activities has already driven sales of 2020-crop SweeTango® apples to the top of the charts this season, growers of the managed variety report.