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Key Technology has hired Marco Azzaretti as director of marketing.
Jonathan Sparks has joined Oxnard, Calif.-based Bobalu Berries’ sales team.
Micki Seibel has joined Unfold as vice president of product.
Woodland, Calif.-based Sakata Seed America has tabbed plant breeder Bill McCarthy as its new associate director of research and development.
Canadian produce industry leader Garry Wagner, 84, died Oct. 3 in Calgary, Alberta.
Leonard Batti, vice president of Taylor Farms, is the new chairman of the Produce Marketing Association’s Center for Growing Talent.
Generation Farms, Vidalia, Ga., has hired Mike Harris as watermelon sales director.
Mission Produce, Oxnard, Calif., has promoted Brooke Becker to sales director.
Sweet potato grower-shipper Farm Fresh Produce, Faison, N.C., has added Davy van Ewijck in sales.
While the pandemic certainly changed the course of the year, it has not altered Stemilt’s efforts to partner with the Washington Apple Education Foundation to help students pursue their secondary education goals.
Red Lobster CEO Kim Lopdrup and Chris Logan, investment director of Canica International AG, have joined Kalera’s board of directors.
Donna-based Grow Farms Texas has hired Maxine Olivarez as a buyer this year.
Irvine, Calif.-based Western Growers has promoted Jason Resnick to senior vice president and general counsel.
After 40 years in the produce industry and 20 years at Wenatchee, Wash.-based Stemilt Growers, Roger Pepperl is retiring at the end of the year.
The Washington Apple Education Foundation opens an online auction of a Rears Powerblast Sprayer on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has appointed three members to the Mushroom Council.
Salix Fruits has hired Maximiliano Guevara Inostroza as country manager for Chile and Fernando Moyano is sales manager for Europe and Russia.
Organics Unlimited CEO and president Mayra Velazquez de León has been named the 2020 Global Trade Ambassador – Mexico award recipient from Women in International Trade – Los Angeles.
Established sales specialist, Tyler Hiriak, joins PennRose Farms as the company continues to provide year-round value and deliver on its commitment to unmatched customer service.
DMA Solutions announces the release of its annual Social Media planning and Produce Marketer’s event calendars to support marketing efforts for the produce industry in 2021.
Unfold, the Bayer AG-backed company that develops vegetable varieties specifically for indoor growing, has added key personnel.
Watch the on-scene video and read about the Quebec Produce Marketing Association’s successful convention.
Los Angeles-based Progressive Produce has hired Howard Nager as vice president of business development and marketing.
Honeybear Brands, Elgin, Minn., has hired Craig Arneson as business development director.
George Pitsikoulis was born into the produce business — almost literally.
Ken Martin, who left a short career as a funeral director and mortician in Missouri to manage what became one of the Rio Grande Valley’s major citrus operations, has died.
Pacific Organic Produce, San Francisco, has hired Gerry Chua, Manuel Pinon and Tina Barnes to it sales and grower relations teams.
The California Fresh Fruit Association, Fresno, has hired Courtney Razor as director of member services and communication.
Trent Bishop is the new vice president of sales for J&D Produce, Edinburg, Texas, and its Little Bear Brands line of products.
Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers since 2002, has been named the recipient of the organization’s 2019 Award of Honor.