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Well-Pict Berries, Watsonville, Calif., is offering a free digital retail kit to retailers to help them boost online berry sales.

I never thought I’d be the kind of parent who would purée whole, fresh vegetables and fruits for my baby’s first solid foods. That’s a rosy ideal relegated to those super-granola, Earth Mother types.

Raley’s, West Sacramento, Calif., has promoted Laura Croff to senior vice president of people.

Mount Maunganui, New Zealand-based Zespri and Miami-based Fresh Directions International shared a booth at the first-ever United Fresh Live! virtual event.

Windset Farms spoke with visitors to its United Fresh Live! booth about its greenhouse-grown Cameo cherry tomatoes-on-the-vine, its Crescendo long peppers, its Fresco Baby Cucumbers and other items.

Kingsville, Ontario-based Mastronardi Produce highlighted at its United Fresh Live! booth several of its newest products, including its Honey Bombs cherry tomatoes-on-the-vine and its Shazam! and Kaboom! peppers.

Sunkist’s Julie DeWolf and Christina Ward spoke with The Packer’s Ashley Nickle about what the company did to make the most of the industry’s first virtual trade show.

Pleasant Prairie, Wis.-based Good Foods Group plans to debut in the coming weeks a direct-to-consumer site.

Looking at retail producing pricing strategies, The Packer’s Tom Karst visited July 16 with Mike Mauti, managing partner of Toronto-based Execulytics.

An outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked garden salads continues to grow as health officials seek where the ingredients were grown.