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Peruvian produce marketer Camposol will use Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions, Inc.'s VitaFresh Botanicals plant-based, edible coatings to extend shelf life for ripened avocados bound for export markets.

Marketing will no longer exist in a decade, said Duncan Wardle in a TED Talk. It will be replaced by the experience economy.

South Bend, Ind.-based Pure Green Farms is now producing and distributing four new leafy green varieties to select Kroger stores, according to a news release.

If you can’t stop obsessing about avocados, it is likely your field of vision will fall on the people who sell the fruit.

The banana is still the top ... well, banana.

Before the pandemic, women in the workforce were thriving. After, is what United Fresh calls the “she-cession.”

Orlando, Fla.-based Kalera has announced the purchase of a facility in St. Paul, Minn., which they will convert to a vertical farming facility, according to a news release.

Oxnard, Calif.-based Mission Produce, Inc., has partnered with China avocado brand Mr. Avocado for the first-ever shipment of avocados to China from California.

This is part two of a two-part report on takeaways from the second and third days of BrandStorm 2021.

One good list deserves another. Following up on our first set of takeaways from the opening day of United Fresh’s BrandStorm event, here are a few more highlights from the last two days of the virtual conference.