FoodLink, a leader in supply chain and commerce solutions for the fresh food industry, has announced a series of new customers that have selected its FoodLink PTI supply chain traceability solution for fresh produce. Retail grocers are requiring new levels of information about the origin and history of the fresh food they sell. As a […]
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Mastronardi/Sunset To Roll Out New Products At PMA Fresh Summit
Mastronardi Produce is gearing up for this year’s PMA Fresh Summit. Taking place Oct. 19-20 in New Orleans, the company’s Sunset brand will be unveiling new innovative products and packaging. Sunset can be found at booth No. 2738. This area includes a full gourmet kitchen where Sunset executive chefs will create signature recipes and introduce […]
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Frieda’s Specialty Lemon Bags Named PMA Impact Award Finalist
Frieda’s Specialty Lemon Bags for 1 lb. Seedless Lemons and Meyer Lemons were selected as a finalist in the 2013 PMA Impact Award, which recognizes excellence in packaging, in September. The bags are among 30 finalists selected from a total of 86 entries this year. The PMA Impact Award recognizes trendsetters that create and deliver […]
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FMI, United Fresh Forge Three-Year Commitment For Chicago Trade Events
The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and United Fresh Produce Association have announced a three-year agreement to co-locate the organizations’ respective trade shows: United Fresh 2014 and FMI Connect, the Global Food Retail Experience. Registration opens today for the June 10-13, 2014, events in Chicago. “Our partnership with United Fresh brings a vine-ripe vibrancy and fresh-picked […]
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Co-Sales Expands Fresh Division
Co-Sales and Cashman-Edwards Inc. have merged their businesses and Andrew B. Cashman and his staff will join the Co-Sales management team to expand the company’s produce/fresh division in the Intermountain region. As Co-Sales’ new director of produce, Cashman will combine his 23-year-old produce company with Co-Sales. “Cashman-Edwards Inc. and its principals are very excited for […]
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Riteway Launches Riteway Fresh
Riteway Sales & Marketing is launching Riteway Fresh, a new fresh division that will serve the Southeast market. Don Bishop will serve as director of the new division. “We are excited to take the Riteway know-how and approach into the fresh market,” said Jim Hall, president of Riteway. “We are also pleased that Don Bishop […]
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Interactive Grape Display At Broulim’s Fresh Foods Drives Sales
In a particularly effective back-to-school merchandising strategy, Broulim’s Fresh Foods in Rigby, Idaho, enticed shoppers to “Make It A Grape School Year!” when it constructed an interactive school bus display using Welch’s grapes. The display was built as part of a back-to-school promotional display contest sponsored by Associated Food Stores and C.H. Robinson, in which […]
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Bessell Becomes Produce Specialist For Birko
Birko, a leading provider of food safety solutions for the produce industry, has named Ian Bessell as the firm’s director of business development and food safety for produce. “We’re delighted to have Ian on board at Birko,” says Kelly Green, Birko’s owner and chairman of the board. “Ian’s extensive background in fruits and vegetables throughout […]
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Harris Teeter And Titan Farms Donate 57K Lbs. Of Peaches To Food Bank
Harris Teeter and vendor Titan Farms donated approximately 57,000 lbs. of peaches to the Second Harvest Food Banks in Winston-Salem and Charlotte, N.C., this past week to help feed people struggling with hunger in the local communities. This donation is part of the retailer’s participation in the inaugural “Peaches with A Purpose” program sponsored by […]
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Limoneira Appoints Palamountain As Director Of Business Development
Limoneira Co., a leading agribusiness with prime agricultural land and operations, real estate and water rights in California, has appointed Mark Palamountain as its director of business development and business integration. Palamountain previously served as Limoneira’s director of energy, waste and water projects and was instrumental in the development of Limoneira’s solar installation, one of […]
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Five To Receive OTA’s 2013 Organic Leadership Awards
by Barbara Haumann/Organic Trade Association Special to The Shelby Report The Organic Trade Association’s (OTA) 2013 Organic Leadership Awards will be presented to a passionate couple who have dedicated their lives to organic for nearly three decades, a professional farmer who has advanced practices for growing organic tree fruit, and two emerging leaders on a […]
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Casey Named VP Of Sales For Grissom’s Foods
Mrs. Grissom’s Salads has appointed food industry veteran Alan Casey as its new VP of sales and brand development. Casey brings years of brand development knowledge and industry know-how from previous positions as VP of sales for Butterball and most recently as SVP of sales and brand development for Bubba Foods Inc., makers of Bubba […]
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Crunch Pak Takes Sliced Apples To Big Apple
Crunch Pak took its sliced apples to the Big Apple Thursday as a team of 20 gave away free samples of fresh product under the company’s electronic billboard in New York City’s Times Square. Packages of FlavorZ, Foodles and DipperZ and 2-oz. mini bags were given away to New Yorkers on the street for four […]
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Orgeldinger To Succeed Pohler As CEO Of IFCO Systems
IFCO Systems says Wolfgang Orgeldinger will become the company’s CEO, succeeding Karl Pohler who is retiring to pursue other interests. Orgeldinger also will succeed Pohler as group president of the Reusable Plastic Crates (RPCs) segment of IFCO’s parent company, Brambles Limited. Orgeldinger has been COO of IFCO since 2002, responsible for all aspects of the […]
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J&J Produce Makes Strides To Grow Company, Rebrand
After 30 years as J&J Produce, the company’s leadership team says it has been actively engaged in strategically positioning the Florida-based business for future growth. As a result, the company has hired Full Tilt Marketing to assist it with developing a new corporate image and logo. “The first step was engaging in a comprehensive customer […]
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Crunch Pak Offers Back-To-School Promotion
Crunch Pak, an industry leader in fresh sliced apples, is offering a back-to-school promotion via its electronic billboard in New York City’s Time Square. Beginning Sunday, the electronic billboard will carry a message asking consumers to “text the word APPLES to the number 65047” for a special offer. When consumers do, they will be sent a […]
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Dole Agrees To Be Taken Private
Company valued at $1.2B based on offer Dole Food Co. Inc. has agreed to be taken private by 90-year-old Chairman and CEO David Murdock after he raised his offer to $13.50 per share, Reuters reports. Murdock, who is Dole’s largest shareholder with a stake of about 40 percent, made an offer in June to buy […]
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Valley Fruit & Produce Hires Director Of Marketing
Jin Ju Wilder has been named Valley Fruit & Produce’s director of marketing. This is a new position for the company. Wilder brings 20 years of produce industry experience to the planning, development and implementation of Valley’s marketing strategies, external and internal communications and public relations activities, according to Carrie La Londe, CFO at Valley. […]
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Seattle’s Metropolitan Market Hosting Annual Peach-O-Rama
For the 17th year, Metropolitan Market of Seattle says its bringing to store measurably sweeter peaches directly from two orchards in Washington and California. The quest to find the sweetest peach began in 1995 when CEO Terry Halverson and his team were determined to improve the quality of the peaches they sold in their stores. […]
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Company Develops Proprietary Process To Bolster Stonefruit Category
New Woot Froot line offers fresh pre-packaged peaches and nectarines Fresh Fruit Cuts is introducing Woot Froot, a line of processed fresh peaches and nectarines that will be available through October. “Woot Froot pairs the great taste of fresh nectarines and peaches—one of America’s top 10 fruits—with the ease and convenience of fresh cut and […]