First Apple Summit touches on apple quality and consumer trends
Summer promotional opportunities. Sustainability and consumers. Increasing consistent quality. These were a few topics discussed at the first Apple Quality Summit 2021, hosted this past Friday by Hazel Technologies, Inc. In 2020, Mario Cervantes of Hazel Technologies reported the company treated 3.2 billion lbs. of food and prevented more than 270 million lbs. from going to waste with its technologies the Hazel 100™ 5g bin sachet and Hazel CA technologies, which help protect the quality of the fruit in bins, plus Hazel Datica which monitors cold storage in real time.
In sales industrywide, apples in 2020 were the second largest within fruit dollars of the approximately $33 billion on fruit sales in 2020, while $7.2 billion went to berries, apples carved out $4 billion an increase of 1.2 percent in dollars over the year prior. While that dollar increase may seem modest, Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics and Summit s
Today s virtual Apple Quality Summit features a variety of speakers
Hazel Technologies, Inc. has announced panelists to speak at today s virtual Apple Quality Summit. The Grower Perspectives panelists include Leighton Rice, quality control manager at Rice Fruit Company of Adams County, PA and Scott Kee, VP of operations at Sacia Orchards of Galesville, WI. The panelists represent category leaders from across US apple production regions that share a dedication for quality and innovation across their operations. The panel will be moderated by Kelly Dietz Hale, VP of sales at Hazel Technologies, Inc.
The Grower Perspectives panelists include (left to right): Scott Kee, VP of operations at Sacia Orchards and Leighton Rice, quality control manager at Rice Fruit Company.
Hazel Technologies, Inc., a Chicago, IL-based USDA-funded agricultural technology company delivering new solutions to combat food waste, raised $70m in Series C financing.
The round, which brought cumulative total raised to over $87m, was co-led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), and Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore, with participation from S2G Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Asahi Kasai Ventures, Jordan Park Group, and the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust.
The company intends to use the funds to build global operations in major agricultural production areas, expanding into new markets such as Southeast Asia, Africa, the EU, and beyond.
Apple quality solutions and market trends discussed at Quality Summit
Hazel Technologies, Inc. announces the first ever virtual Apple Quality Summit. The one-hour event will be held on Friday April 30th and feature keynote speakers from across the industry ahead of the 2021 Northern American apple season.
“Apples are a powerhouse within fruit the second largest behind berries and just ahead of grapes,” said Anne-Marie Roerink, principal of 210 Analytics and speaker at the Apple Quality Summit. The category size, in addition to the dynamic pre- and post-harvest technologies Hazel Tech® brings to the apple industry, are a few reasons to highlight this category at the summit.
CHICAGO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Hazel Technologies, Inc., a USDA-funded agricultural technology company delivering new solutions to combat food waste, today announced that it had finalized documentation relating to a $70 million Series C financing round, which will bring the company’s cumulative total raised to over $87 million.
The Series C round is co-led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), and Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore.
The oversubscribed Series C round has also attracted new and returning investors S2G Ventures, Pangea Ventures, Rhapsody Venture Partners, Asahi Kasai Ventures, Jordan Park Group, and the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Foundation.