PMG Produce Market Trends
Organic food sales have surpassed $60 billion in 2022, with produce sales totaling $22 billion and accounting for 15% of all U.S. produce purchased, according to an Organic Trade Association survey.
Officials have outlined record-keeping requirements of Section 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act, which goes into effect January 2023.
The San Francisco-based food technology company has added JC Produce, a fresh produce company known for garlic and ginger, to its portfolio.
Produce suppliers, tech leaders and logistics firms arrived in force to 2022’s Global Produce and Floral Show in October.
In 2022, Walmart plans to increase fivefold its InHome service of delivering groceries right into a customer’s refrigerator — even when they’re not home.
We love trends lists! So let’s delve into what the industry expects to happen with produce in 2022.
In Episode 3 of Season 2 of the “Tip of the Iceberg” podcast, we meet Angela Scarfia, a bonafide exotic fruit expert — and in her “free” time, no less.
The B Lab, a nonprofit organization, measures a company’s entire social and environmental impact in its standards for this certification.
Families with young children are always pulled in a lot of directions, so to sell more fresh produce to them, it not only has to be appealing and accessible, it has to be easy.
Social media’s importance in marketing to families can’t be overstated. And the strategy is changing.
Quick, name one vegetable ready for snacking in its original form.
Imagine: Using drones to detect and remove landmines at Ukrainian farms. Or to deliver lettuces to a salad bar in North Carolina and pick apples from a commercial orchard in Wisconsin.
In one corner of the ring awaits the longtime champion, National or Consumer Brand of Produce. Across the boxing ring in the other corner is up-and-comer Retail Brand, or Private Label. Who will win?
Don’t be afraid to get a little personal on social media, even on the business-focused Linkedin platform.
What do avocados imported from Peru, brand-new Tesla cars, and retailers Meijer and Lidl have in common?
NEW YORK — A helmeted e-bike rider with a black backpack full of groceries bolted from a building’s double doors on a Thursday morning on the Lower East Side.
The New York Apple Association’s new commercial featuring New York apple growers won a bronze Telly award and will air on several major TV networks.
The sixth annual Dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index shows that consumers are back to favoring grocery stores over the online retailer giant for their food purchases.
Private label continues to be elevated compared to the prior year, according to the Numerator’s Promo Shift Dashboard.
NEW YORK — When the invitation from Bowery Farming appeared in my e-mail inbox, a tingle of excitement sparked in me.
“We are all produce pushers,” said Lisa Coleman, director of healthy living at Giant Food, at the panel discussion on the future of the food-as-medicine movement.
Market conditions are making berry imports even more desirable for retailers.
EFI certified 53 operations in five countries, with 19 more farms in progress. Together, those operations employ almost 60,000 workers, and EFI’s premium program generated over $3.2 million in worker bonuses in 2022.
Sustainable packaging is so complex that it can cause a company to throw its collective hands up in surrender. But don’t. Our lives, our Earth and, ultimately, our businesses are at stake.
After bananas and apples, the perennial household favorites, tomatoes, typically go toe-to-toe with potatoes, carrots and onions jockeying for position in the shopping cart.
Fairtrade America, which has a food-packaging label certifying that social justice and sustainability standards have been met, released its five key trends that will drive consumer choices and brand action in 2023.
The cost of produce and other groceries is hurting supermarkets while fueling sales for mass stores such as Walmart. But there’s more to it than that.