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Smart & Final, the smaller, faster grocery warehouse store for household and business customers, recently announced that Scott Drew has been named president. Dave Hirz, current president and CEO, has been with Smart & Final for almost 12 years and is retiring effective Feb. 1, 2022. 

Phil (Rock) Gumpert, chairman and chief executive officer of Tom Lange Family of Cos., after 57 years in the produce industry, is announcing his retirement as CEO, effective Dec. 31. The Tom Lange Board of Directors accepted Rock’s retirement as Chief Executive Officer and confirmed that Rock will remain on the Board of Directors as chairman.

Even though the Bushwick Commission works with onions and other mixed vegetables from throughout the northeast region, potatoes are its core business, making up the majority of its sales.

While overall yields in the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association’s Red River Valley region of North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota and extreme Eastern Montana, like yields in other growing areas across the country, were down by double-digits this year, one segment of the region’s production saw a notable bump in 2021.

Cold temperatures in the California and Arizona desert growing regions are causing ice to form on lettuce crops. While no immediate quality impact is expected, Markon Cooperative’s quality assurance inspectors are actively monitoring for ice-related challenges in the coming days.

The Giant Co. has added frictionless store technology — which enables individuals to shop a small format store in seconds by scanning in, shopping and walking out — at its new e-commerce fulfillment center in Philadelphia as an innovative option for its more than 125 team members at the site to seamlessly shop fresh, healthy items in the workplace.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on 11 produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA. The following businesses and ...

Cold temperatures in the California and Arizona desert growing regions are causing ice to form on lettuce crops. While no immediate quality impact is expected, Markon Cooperative’s quality assurance inspectors are actively monitoring for ice-related challenges in the coming days.

With supplies down by 40 percent from 2020, Snake River Produce in Nyssa, OR, Is “pacing our production to finish in late March,” GM Kay Riley said in mid-November.

Pulmuone, one of the largest tofu companies in the world, announced a 100,000-square-foot expansion at its Fullerton, CA, facility that doubles tofu production capabilities and creates 110 new jobs. Founded in South Korea by Won Kyung Sun as a small organic produce store in 1981, Pulmuone was the first company to sell packaged tofu products in Korea.