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Nick Mascari has left Applewood Fresh Growers LLC, Sparta, Mich., where he was president, to open a consulting company.
AgSafe, Modesto, Calif., has promoted Theresa Kiehn to acting president and CEO.
Kevin Murphy has joined the board of directors at Fall Creek Farm & Nursery Inc., Lowell, Ore.
Potandon Produce LLC, Idaho Falls, has hired John Palczynski as Midwest regional sales manager, a new position at the company.
Package Containers Inc., Canby, Ore., has hired Larry Grove as manufacturing operations manager.
The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, Sacramento, has appointed Willette Crawford to compliance officer.
Frieda Rapoport Caplan, founder of Frieda’s Specialty Produce, is memorialized in Inc. Magazine’s list of iconic entrepreneurs who died in 2020.
Bill Stewart, a founder of WesPak Sales, Dinuba, Calif., has died.
The Produce Marketing Association’s Richard Owen will be leaving his position at the end of January to become president and CEO of the American Peanut Council.
Cooler and freezer manufacturer Polar King International has hired Rachel Giese as a customer service agent.
Robert Glasser, who started each morning at 2 a.m. for 60 years opening the family business, Torn & Glasser, has died.
The application period has opened for the Class 26 of the United Fresh Produce Industry Leadership Program.
Associations representing produce joined more than 100 other agriculture groups in urging leadership of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to confirm Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary.
JOH, Billerica, Mass., has hired Andrew Moore as a home meal replacement specialist in the company’s fresh division.
Church Brothers Farms, Salinas, Calif., has hired Jennifer Wagner Sanchez as director of marketing.
Scott Harker has joined Verdant Technologies as vice president of sales.
It is with sincere thanks that I share our Season of Giving Back campaign has raised more than $90,000 for United Fresh Start Foundation’s mission to increase fresh produce access for children and families in need.
Chris Alvarez has been promoted at Giro Pack Inc. to director of sales and customer service.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has appointed 31 potato industry representatives to serve on the National Potato Promotion Board.
Pinnacle Claims Management, part of the Western Growers Family of Companies, today announced the launch of rapid COVID-19 testing in Arizona and California.
Calavo Growers Inc. announced multiple changes to its organization, the first of which is the merging of internal divisions Calavo and Renaissance Food Group.
Newark, N.J.-based AeroFarms has hired several executives from companies such as Google, Earthbound Farm, PepsiCo, Kraft, Campbell’s Soup Co. and Tata Consumer Products.
Wayne, Pa.-based Tekni-Plex has added Rodolfo Haenni as vice president for market and strategy development for food and beverage packaging.
James “Jamie” Fussell Jr. is the new director of labor relations at the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, replacing Mike Carlton, who retired in November.
Long-time potato and vegetable growers Norm and Marv Worzella of Worzella & Sons, Inc., Plover, Wis., have been inducted into the Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association Hall of Fame.
The Produce for Better Health Foundation has approved Matt Middleton, vice president of retail sales for Brea, Calif.-based Ventura Foods, as its new chairman of the board.
The Packer’s Tom Karst visited in January with Max Teplitski. chief science officer for the Produce Marketing Association.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based SpartanNash has promoted Amy McClellan to vice president of fresh merchandising.
Billerica, Mass.-based food broker JOH has hired Alex Sykes as an account executive in the company’s fresh division.
Alan Alvarez — who was so talented at selling and talking about mangoes that he was dubbed “Mango King” — has died.