Page 144 - Roduce Editorials News Today

As part of its exciting marketing campaign, Avocados from Peru launched its 2022 AVO Tesla Summer Sweepstakes giveaway June 16 in Grand Rapids, MI, in cooperation with retail partner Meijer. The unique sweepstakes will promote and spread the message of AFP campaign: “Eat Healthy and Drive Green.” The key pillar of this giveaway is to encourage healthy and sustainable living as consuming Avocados from Peru provides benefits to the body and the environment — just as electric vehicles cut dow...

Continental Fresh specializes in tropical imports from Latin America, servicing retail, foodservice, wholesale and process customers throughout the United States. The Miami-based company has been connecting dependable growers with reputable buyers since its beginnings, and customers rely on the company for its broad import knowledge and regular market updates and forecasts ensuring that their products are delivered on time and in peak condition.

Following the theft of its honeybees earlier in the year, The Giant Co. added two new beehives, housing 30,000 honeybees, near the company’s seven-acre pollinator-friendly solar field at its corporate headquarters. The company will continue to add to the colony over the next several months and will ultimately house 450,000 honeybees in nine beehives by next year.

Recent developments at Hudson River Fruit Distributors have generated much excitement for the Milton, NY-based company. Alisha Albinder-Camac, vice president and a fourth-generation member of the family-owned business, said her brother, Marcus, has recently joined HRFD and has been spending time in each department to get a thorough understanding of the operation.

The flavors in this Greek Chicken Meatball Bowl recipe will leave you feeling as though you are on the beautiful Mediterranean shores in Greece! Featuring Uno Bites™ Nano Cucumbers as the main ingredient your family will be blurting out OPA in no time. 

California pear farmers are on track to begin harvest in early July as the season kicks off in the River growing district. Most growers are planning to begin harvest of light volume on July 7 with volume increasing the week of July 11.

Charles D. Pigliacelli, a member of the John Vena Inc. leadership team from 1985 to 2008 and a long-time Philadelphia produce veteran, died June 17 at his home in Ocean View, DE. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Pigliacelli was a graduate of St. Joseph’s University with a degree in accounting. He began his career in the produce industry during the 1970s at the Philadelphia Food Distribution Center, first at M. Levin & Co. before moving to Ralph D. Hughes Inc. He landed at JVI in 1985.

Crunch Time Apple Growers’ history is a somewhat short one, with the company having formed in 2010 by a group of New York growers intent on working with Cornell to bring to market exciting new Cornell-developed apple varieties.

Westfalia Fruit anticipates a robust season for its Peruvian avocados. Its confidence is bolstered by the company’s expansion in country and the opening of its new state-of-the-art pack house, located just south of Lima. “The benefit of creating our own facility is that we can ensure it meets the requirements of our business now and in the future,” said Omar Diaz, general manager for Westfalia Fruit Peru.

This year Red Sun Farms' Sweetpops took home the 2022 Hottest Tomato, for the Bite Size Tomato Award at the 2022 Greenhouse Competition in Leamington, ON. “We truly believe that our Sweetpop tomatoes are absolutely the best-tasting tomato, but it is an honor to have them recognized as having the Hottest Bite Size tomato amongst a community that specializes in greenhouse perfection,” said Carlos Visconti, Red Sun CEO of Canada and U.S. operations.