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NEW YORK — Take a behind-the-scenes look at how Mario DePalma — called “the Michelangelo of Produce” by his colleagues — designs urban retail store produce displays.

Learn how — and why — to use social media wisely for your produce business, as a retailer or supplier.

We reveal and critique the contest winners in these categories: best produce manager, best produce merchandiser/specialist, broccoli/cauliflower, Chilean produce, citrus, potatoes, mushrooms and winter greens.

PMG staff members discuss: How has the produce industry affected your lifestyle, off the clock?

The first appointees have experience at Raley’s, Smitty’s, Meijer, Ahold Delhaize, Schnucks, Bashas’, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Marks & Spencer, Associated Wholesale Grocers and International Fresh Produce Association.

GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — A few cowboy hats bobbed among the sea of more than 2,200 people at the 2022 Viva Fresh Expo, hosted by the Texas International Produce Association at the Gaylord Texan Resort just outside Dallas.

Yuma, Ariz.-based Natural Delights’ Coconut Mini Medjools dates are one of the 2022 Prevention magazine Healthy Food Awards winners.

Williamsville, N.Y.-based Tops Friendly Markets, a grocery retailer in New York, northern Pennsylvania and Vermont, has promoted Jeff Cady to vice president of produce and floral as part of Shared Services Center.

Millions of consumers benefitted from Healthy Family Project’s annual Mission for Nutrition initiative — and so did produce brand partners.

Families with young children are always pulled in a lot of directions, so to sell more fresh produce to them, it not only has to be appealing and accessible, it has to be easy.