Produce Marketing Association
Onion grower-shipper Shuman Farms, Reidsville, Ga., is embracing the virtual platform that’s presenting the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit.
The Women’s Catalyst Award, which honors an individual’s support for women in the industry, has been renamed the Frieda Rapoport Caplan Women’s Catalyst Award.
Since April 1, Produce Marketing Association members have been coming together nearly every Wednesday at noon for a Virtual Town Hall meeting.
Get ready for a new-look Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit.
Traverse City, Mich.-based North Bay Produce highlighted new branding and updated graphics on its packaging at the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit.
Spring Valley Fruits, Pharr, Texas, highlighted a new eco-friendly clamshell for guava at the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit.
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board used its virtual booth at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit Expo to highlight the region’s advantages as a potato supplier.
Pace International is presenting its Postharvest Academy through a series of web seminars on a range of topics affecting apple, citrus, cherries and pears.
The Oppenheimer Group teased new apple packaging at the PMA’s Fresh Summit. The packaging pictured at the virtual booth is a pyramid-shaped paper-based graphic container and holds four Jazz apples.
Staff from Dublin, Calif.-based iTrade Network, a supply-chain solution software company, spoke to Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit 2020 attendees about end-to-end traceability and efficiency.
Rockingham, Va.-based Shenandoah Growers Inc. showcase new items and product lines, such as the company’s new dried spice/flavor line and new holiday spices (mulling blend and cinnamon).
A Season & Steam product line extension was the headline news at the Ocean Mist Farms digital booth at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit Expo.
At its virtual exhibit at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit, Vero Beach, Fla.-based Seald Sweet International/Greenyard USA focused on the message the supplier is “more than citrus.”
Investigations into foodborne illness outbreaks could be streamlined and conducted more effectively when supply chain partners provide extended product information during tracebacks.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect companies and individuals in the fresh produce industry.
The Produce Marketing Association is accepting nominations for the Impact Award.
Retail fresh produce sales for the week ending June 28 rose at the lowest growth rate since April 19, according to research firm IRI scan data.
The Newark, Del.-based Produce Marketing Association has released more details on the Foodservice: Delivered virtual event, set for July 20-24.
Keeping the focus on taking care of workers, customers and suppliers is a key to surviving the COVID-19 crisis, according to Steve Barnard.
The world has changed for Morrison Healthcare, which provides food for more than 750 hospitals and healthcare systems nationwide, but the hospital cafes never closed.
Recovering from the human and economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic won’t be easy.
The Produce Marketing Association is creating a task force on diversity and inclusion in the produce and floral industries.
Mother Nature is going to extremes, and the challenges that reality brings to fresh produce growers were explored in the Produce Marketing Association’s Virtual Town Hall meeting.
Produce industry associations are revisiting presentations from the 2020 Center for Produce Safety Virtual Research Symposium.
The Packer is accepting nominations for the 2020 Produce Marketer of the Year.
Produce for Kids is changing its consumer brand to Healthy Family Project, which will also serve as the umbrella organization for Food Rx, Power Your Lunchbox and Mission for Nutrition.
Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, is partnering with Brighter Bites to raise money for the organization in an online Sunset Rocks concert.
Food Fight GA, established during the COVID-19 pandemic to help Atlanta-area restaurant workers and farmers who supply the restaurants, is being recognized with a Produce Marketing Association Impact Award.
Pear Bureau Northwest is offering virtual visitors several digital tools at its Fresh Summit exhibit, and the message centers on flavor.
For Zespri International, the Produce Marketing Association’s virtual Fresh Summit has been a great forum to push out merchandising information about the proprietary Zespri SunGold pack, Sarah Deaton said.