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The newest FreshFacts on Retail report from United Fresh sums up the fourth quarter of 2020 and the year overall, along with spotlighting upcoming seasonal categories cucumbers, mangoes and mushrooms.

Pan Pacific International Holdings, which owns more than 600 stores globally, has announced an agreement to acquire high-end California chain Gelson’s from TPG Capital.

H-2A wages will increase by 4.5% in 2021.

Whether packaging materials have one life or several, produce packers and shippers say they have to have a plan for them.

The Packer’s editors Tom Karst, Ashley Nickle and Amy Sowder cover key topics of the week, from foul weather and its effects on Texas citrus and Chilean grapes to developments in the greenhouse growing space.

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During Random Acts of Kindness Week, Feb. 15-21, Thx! launched a Be Our Guest campaign, a contest that asks for submissions from other produce companies to share about the good things they do for their guest farmworkers.

As time goes by, the “new normal” we have been waiting for looks like it will bear less and less of a resemblance to the old normal.

Angela Scarfia’s 25-second educational video on the ice cream bean fruit earned 283,700 views, 58,000 likes and 764 comments on TikTok.

New York City’s Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. honored three FreshDirect employees in a surprise ceremony, in keeping with Black History Month celebrations.