Produce retail
The Ontario Produce Marketing Association, Toronto, has honored four people who have championed fresh fruits and vegetables for the industry.
Seven leaders in the industry will be inducted into the Texas Produce Hall of Fame in January.
Walmart has named Braga Fresh, Soledad, Calif., as its Produce Supplier of the Year.
United Fresh is accepting nominations for the 2020 Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards Program.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation has new awards to honor industry leaders, dieticians, influencers and promoters of the group’s new Have a Plant consumptions campaign.
Moxxy Marketing, Salinas, Calif., received an award for designs for sliced apples bags and applesauce containers for school lunches.
Foodservice distributors US Foods, Rosemont, Ill., has named Lipman Family Farms, Immokalee, Fla., as its 2019 Supplier of the Year for produce.
Larry Alsum, president and CEO of Alsum Farms & Produce Inc., and Dick Okray, president of Okray Family Farms, are the newest members of the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Association Hall of Fame.
For the 19th consecutive year, the Oppenheimer Group has been named as one of Canada’s Best Managed companies.
For the eighth year in a row, greenhouse grower Red Sun Farms, Kingsville, Ontario, has earned recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed companies.
Mastronardi Produce has been named as one of Canada’s Best Managed companies for the 11th year in a row.
Fresh Direct Produce Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed companies for the ninth time.
For the 19th consecutive year, the Oppenheimer Group has been named as one of Canada’s Best Managed companies.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation has named produce companies, retailers and individuals to its annual awards.
More than 100 chefs from across the United Arab Emirates created history on January 4 by producing 2,209 pies made with USA Pears and setting a Guinness World Record for the longest line of pies.
The USDA National Organic Program today recognized the work of ten organic certifiers with our annual “Data Quality Awards.” Organic data reporting advances both market development and robust enforcement.
West Pak Avocado is thrilled to announce that its The Avo Effect campaign has won a Silver ADDY at the San Diego 2021 American Advertising Awards.
Fresh Freight LLC, the industry’s premier full-service provider of food transportation services, announced that US Foods has received its first annual Shipper of Choice award for supply chain leadership.
Food Logistics has named Choptank Transport to its 2020 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list.
The Packer’s Sustainable Produce Summit, Sept. 13-17, features industry experts. This year’s event also introduces the Best of SPS Marketing Awards.
Moxxy Marketing has been honored with a 2021 Packaging Design Award from Graphic Design USA for work with Peterson Farms, Inc. on the design of their suite of Antioxidant Solutions branded Tart Cherry Juice packaging.
Do you know someone who has done significant work to further the fresh produce industry’s marketing efforts? Then nominate them for The Packer’s 2021 Produce Marketer of the Year award!
The first annual Best of SPS Marketing Awards, presented by The Packer, were awarded at the 2021 Sustainable Produce Summit.
Goldies Onions, the only no-tears, no-onion-breath onion, which was introduced to consumers in 2020, captured three awards in the most-recent National Agricultural Marketing Association.
Montréal-based Sollum Technologies’ smart LED lighting system won the 2021 Sapphire Award in the horticultural lighting category by LEDs Magazine.
John D’Arrigo, President, CEO and Chairman for D’Arrigo California has been honored by the University of Arizona, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as an influential visionary and agricultural leader.
Jac. Vandenberg, Inc.’s SUNRAYS Mandarin BIO bags has been named the 2021 Eco Excellence Award for Best Snack for its innovative, sustainable packaging.
CHICAGO — Washington apple grower Sean Gilbert is The Packer’s 2021 Apple Man of the Year.
Every Body Eat nabbed the $1 million grand prize in the Grow-NY food innovation and agriculture technology business competition based in Syracuse, N.Y. Other startups shared the rest of the prizes, totaling $2 million.