Produce Retail
Naturipe is introducing a proprietary raspberry, the Pacific Centennial, designed to please consumer flavor demands, adapt to growing environments and please retailers with enhanced shelf stability.
FiveStar Gourmet Foods is expanding its Simply Fresh snack lines with 25 new stock-keeping units for retail.
Curation Foods is unveiling a new look for its Eat Smart brand at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit expo.
Retail expert Dick Spezzano has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the Center for Growing Talent’s Jay Pack Cultivating our Future Award.
Two-time NBA World Champion Danny “Green Ranger” Green of the Los Angeles Lakers has partnered with Blanc Vineyards, Delano Farms and Four Star Fruit to encourage children to live healthy lifestyles.
Processor Missa Bay LLC has recalled more than three dozen salad products with romaine as investigators search for a cause of an eight-state E. coli outbreak with 17 cases.
Year-over-year retail food price increases continue to be tame and more of the same is expected for 2020.
New research reveals that millennial shoppers who buy avocados are important both to the avocado category and to the entire produce department.
Green Thumb Farms has launched a program fall to discover and develop new potato varieties.
The Fishers, N.Y.-based New York Apple Association is kicking off the holiday season with new poly bags and a big holiday retail display contest.
The Idaho Potato Commission is sending a lucky produce manager to Italy as part of its 2020 Potato Lover’s Month Display Contest.
The demand for sustainability in packaging is growing but the choices in pursuit of that goal aren’t necessarily easy.
Avocados From Mexico’s Guac Nation is back, in a cross promotion with Bud Light and Cholula hot sauce leading into the Super Bowl.
There’s a new competitor on the upcoming season of “The Masked Singer” that will have fans wondering if he/she has what it takes to be the top banana
Morning Kiss Organics, Chelsea, Mass., expects to see its biggest year for specialty citrus, with sales of cara caras increasing significantly over the past five years.
Plant-based dips company Good Foods, Pleasant Prairie, Wis., is now marketing its Queso dip at select Costco stores.
Greenhouse company Great Lakes Growers, Burton, Ohio, recently broke ground on a 100,000-square-foot expansion that will boost production capacity to 12 million heads of leafy greens.
The Little Potato Co., Edmonton, Alberta, is kicking off the Big Game, Better Snacks promotion to help fans celebrate on Super Bowl Sunday.
The Autumn Glory continues to see success this winter at retail, with the apple from Domex Superfresh Growers, Yakima, Wash., posting strong year-over-year growth.
SpartanNash is renewing its Double Up Food Bucks program, with shoppers at 46 Family Fare, VG’s and ValuLand stores throughout Michigan giving food stamp recipients the opportunity to double fresh produce purchases.
TAMPA, Fla. — Corporate charitable giving can be a win-win for both produce marketers and the causes they support, one consultant believes.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based SpartanNash is piloting a mobile app that the retailer says has the potential to both reduce food waste and save consumers money.
Produce for Kids is working with health-conscious brands and hundreds of retail dietitians for the second annual Mission for Nutrition promotion.
Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers is partnering with the German-based emoji company to use the brand icons on the company’s apples, pears, and cherries.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The 106th edition of the National Watermelon Association convention featured record attendance, big fundraising and the crowning of Paige Huntington of Texas as the 2020 National Watermelon Queen.
Pete’s, Carpinteria, Calif., will have a new product for West Coast retailers this spring: Pete’s Butter Stuffers.
With a new season for the GEM avocado, Index Fresh, Riverside, Calif., plans to double the volume of the variety.
BrightFarms’ greenhouse salad products will be sold in more than 330 Food Lion stores in Virginia and other Ahold-Delhaize Mid-Atlantic stores through an expanded partnership with the retailer.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The National Grocers Association named K-VA-T Food Stores and Food City as Outstanding Marketer and Brookshire Grocery Co. as Outstanding Merchandiser.
Fifty-six percent of U.S. shoppers are more concerned about food safety than they were a year ago, according to a survey from British consulting firm Lloyd’s Register.