Avocado Industry News
The latest avocado industry news, including expert insights on global market trends, crop production, supply chain developments, and retail strategies.
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With a season hampered by heat, wind and fire, California avocado growers have been challenged.
New Rochelle, N.Y.-based LGS Specialty Sales has announced that its Tiny Tim’s mini avocados are now available in a more economical bag.
Mexican avocado shipments will be crossing into the U.S. in earnest Nov. 17, after a late-October growers strike all but dried up the supply chain to retailers and foodservice operators in the U.S.
A sure sign of any significant disruption of the avocado market, as our news editor Chris Koger has said more than once, is a story (or a 1,000 stories) about how Chipotle is coping with the shortage.
Apeel Sciences plans to bring its shelf-life extending technology to European avocado marketer Nature’s Pride.
Judging from numbers from Nielsen Co. LLC, consumers in the western part of the U.S. are particularly fond of California avocados.
Miami-based WP Produce is shipping Desbry brand avocados in a box it designed to lengthen the fruit’s shelf life.
Retail avocado prices dropped 9.3% while total dollars increased by 11.2% for the four weeks ending Dec. 3, according to the latest retail scan data.
Avocados should be available in promotable volumes leading up to Cinco de Mayo.
Avocado marketer Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., has scheduled its next seminar series for avocado growers.
Avocado sales were downright spooky last fall, when the week of Halloween posted a 4-year high of $42 million, a 28% increase over the previous year.
The Peruvian Avocado Commission is kicking off the season in June with retail and consumer marketing initiatives to promote the estimated 170 million pounds arriving in the U.S.
Shelf-life enhancement company Hazel Technologies has a new partnership with AMR Agro, a Dominican Republic green-skin avocado packer-exporter.
Hispanic households are buying avocados at a rate nearly 50% above non-Hispanic households.
The Hass Avocado Board continues its education of food and nutrition professionals by exhibiting at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Food & Nutrition Conference and Expo.
Here are a few charts to illustrate what the avocado market has been like this year.
A new survey reveals Hispanic consumers like the idea of fresh avocados playing a role in healthy snacks and overall nutrition goals.
Mission Produce Inc. is Ready to give consumers the choice to buy avocados that are ready to eat now and/or in 2-3 days with a new ripening and merchandising program.
“Winter is coming?” With a tongue-in-cheek nod to the final “Game of Thrones” season, the California Avocado Commission is declaring that winter is over, which means it’s time for California hass avocados again.
Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., is again shipping Gem avocados, to complement full-size hass avocados grown in California.
Mission Produce Inc., Oxnard, Calif., has a new website promoting the company’s extensive avocado supply and ripening network.
Avocados from Peru already were arriving in the U.S. in May, and shipments should continue until around Labor Day, importers said.
Versatility is a retail promotional bonanza for Florida avocados, suppliers say. Retailers are best-served by providing shoppers with usage ideas and choices, they said.
Miami-based J&C Tropicals has upgraded its packing process, said Jessie Capote, executive vice president and co-owner.
Unity Groves Corp. has expanded its acreage and looked to improve groves by “grafting better varieties,” said Louie Carricarte, president and owner.
Rough tropical weather in 2017 and its fallout in 2018 are now history, and Florida avocado grower-shippers say they are eager to get back to business as usual this year.
Volume should be up, and prices should be down compared to last year as the 2018 California avocado season kicks off.
Mission Produce, which recently began offering small avocados in 2-pound bags, is expanding the Minis brand to include organic avocados.
Citing the “huge opportunity” for avocado consumption in China, Mission Produce President and CEO Steve Barnard announced the company is building a second ripening facility in the country.