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As supplies of late-season pomegranates from California begin to dwindle, John Vena Inc., a specialty produce wholesaler based in Philadelphia, has stepped up volumes of Israeli fruit through its import partnership with EDOM Fruits, an experienced grower cooperative specializing in supplying exotic fruits to some of Europe’s largest retailers.

With production in three Mexican states, Divemex believes it is the only company in Mexico providing U.S. customers top quality bell peppers on a year-round basis.

In the fifth annual dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index, a comprehensive, nationwide study that examines the approximately $1 trillion U.S. grocery market, Amazon cemented its leadership position. H-E-B followed in second place and Market Basket leapfrogged three retailers to take the third spot away from Trader Joe’s. Wegmans held onto the fourth spot for a second year in a row.

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King Soopers employees in the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents approximately 17,000 grocery workers, declined to accept what King Soopers’/Kroger described as its last, best and final offer, voting by 95 percent to strike. The retailer called the union's decision reckless and self-serving, without regard for the implications to associates and Coloradans. "Local 7 is putting politics before people and preventing us from putting more money in our associat...

For the past five years, Nature Fresh Farms and South Essex Fabricating have joined together to support families in Windsor/Essex, ON, and Fulton County, OH. But what initially began as a small company initiative in 2016 quickly grew into a company-wide fundraising campaign that has helped hundreds of families over the years.

Leaders from Lidl broke ground on its future store in Washington, DC. This will be the first new supermarket to serve residents in Wards 7 and 8 in more than a decade. The site is Lidl’s first store in the district and it is scheduled to open by late fall 2022. The store will create approximately 45 new jobs.

“Washington has a really good crop of apples this year,” said Mac Riggan, director of marketing for Chelan Fresh Inc. The Chelan, WA-based marketing team supports more than 300 family-owned farms specializing in premium apples. “Year after year, the Washington apple industry is providing more and more of the emerging varieties, with these new varieties taking up a greater percentage of the overall crop volume,” he said.

The Wonderful Co., a global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world through its iconic consumer brands, announced the appointment of veteran public affairs and communications executive Seth Oster as the company’s first chief corporate affairs officer. Oster will oversee TWC’s global corporate communications and public affairs practice across its multibillion-dollar business lines and will play an integral role helping drive the company’s government relations a...

“We enjoyed ideal temperatures during harvest in September and October, and are seeing really nice color, flavor and quality,” said Catherine Gipe-Stewart, communications manager at Superfresh Growers.  The central Washington grower, based out of Yakima, is excited about its winter apples and expects to last all the way through storage season.