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Western Growers Insurance Services has hired Marlo Reininger as senior account manager.

Traverse City, Mich.-based North Bay Produce Inc. has added dried fruits to its offerings.

U.S. Foods Inc., Los Angeles, has been awarded a maximum $90.3 million contract for full-line food distribution on Navy ships in the San Diego area.

Antoni Porowski, food and wine connoisseur on the Emmy-winning Netflix series Queer Eye, will turn his attention to produce at The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo.

Oxnard, Calif.-based Mission Produce is focusing on its partnership with Hazel Technologies Inc., and its Avolast shelf-life extension product at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit expo.

Riverside, Calif.-based Index Fresh is again inviting California avocado growers to attend seminars to boost crop productivity.

The California Table Grape Commission has downgraded July projections of the third-largest crop in history to a normal production of 109 million 19-pound boxes.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is buying $30 million of table grapes.

Fresh packaging company StePac L.A. Ltd., Tefen, Israel, has unveiled a sustainability strategy with four pillars.