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San Miguel Produce Inc., Oxnard, Calif., has hired John Killeen as vice president and general manager.
Bowery Farming, headquartered in New York with farms in Kearny, N.J., hired two new executives to oversee the company’s marketing and sales operations.
Jerry D’Amore has joined the Inteligistics Inc. board, with a focus on strategic corporate development.
Frank Capone, who spent some of his 30 years at Dominick’s Finer Foods as a buyer of imported produce in Nogales, Ariz., has died.
Fresh-Link Produce LLC, Nogales, Ariz., has hired Diane Ybarra in its sales department.
Seven Seas has hired Brent Young as manager of sales in its Visalia, Calif., office.
Hitchcock Farms, Salinas, Calif., has hired Jill Lenz and Dan Holt to its sales team.
Ippolito Fruit and Produce, Burlington, Ontario, is moving into foodservice with the hiring of Jon Stewart as director of sales — foodservice.
As more produce is offered with a fair trade label and more consumer seek it out, sales are greatly increasing, with Fair Trade USA reporting a 30% jump in 2018.
Applications are open for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee.
United Fresh is accepting nominations for the 2020 Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards Program.
Plant-based dips company Good Foods has donated $65,000 to the No Kid Hungry campaign to help fight childhood hunger.
The Fresno, Calif.-based California Table Grape Commission has hired Jodi Devaurs as director of trade policy.
The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council has contracted with the Sterling-Rice Group to lead its integrated foodservice marketing and promotional activities for the council and the blueberry industry.
A Celebration of Life service has been scheduled for Frieda Rapoport Caplan, who died Jan. 18.
BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., has promoted Abby Prior to senior vice president of sales and marketing, and Matt DiNitto as director of sales — East.
Ippolito International, Salinas, Calif., has added Lara Grossman and Roberto Ornelas to its sales and marketing staff.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has promoted Joe Atchison III to director of its marketing and development division.
Packaging company Sev-Rend, Collinsville, Ill., has hired Art Vega as vice president of business development.
Michel Picandet is the new executive vice president and head of Tomra Food, which designs and makes fresh produce sorting and grading equipment.
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.
Brighter Bites, Houston, recently elected three new board members.
Watsonville Coast Produce Inc., Watsonville, Calif., has promoted Jerud Manfre to vice president of operations and Adrian Contreras to sales manager.
Nace Brian Cohen, who founded Progressive Produce in Los Angeles in 1967 with Charles Gilb, as a potato and onion company, has died.
Exhibitors at The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo had plenty to talk, including new products.
Kool Logistics LLC, Nashville, has promoted John Druckenmiller to general manager.
Main Street Produce, Santa Maria, Calif., has hired Roger Privett III as sales and business development manager.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations of qualified watermelon importers for four seats on the National Watermelon Promotion Board.
Matt Quiring is now director of sales for Leamington, Ontario-based Nature Fresh Farms.
J.E. Russell Produce Ltd. has hired Mike Pirri, a 21-year veteran of the produce industry with experience in wholesale and retail, to head up a new melon and grape program, said Hutch Morton, senior vice president.