The scent of pine and the jingle of bells mean just one thing: Christmas is around the corner. With clever marketing, this can be a highly profitable season — particularly with a blooming digital marketplace. Rio Roses provided eight proven online marketing tips to make Christmas floral sales flourish.

Sam's Club, a division of Walmart, will open two new distribution centers in early 2024 — one outside St. Louis and the other near Minneapolis. The announcement of these two new locations comes on the heels of recently shared plans to open a new distribution center in Oklahoma City and a new fulfillment center in Lithia Springs, GA, outside of Atlanta. The new facilities are part of a multi-year growth plan to transform the supply chain at Sam’s Club and evolve network and end-to-end capabilities.

Fruit World, a fresh produce company with generations of history, welcomes the California Citrus season with fresh, bold new packaging.

Spice World announced the appointment of Lisa B. Rosenberg as its new director of research and development. In this newly created role, Lisa will lead Spice World’s robust innovation program designed to deliver on consumers’ desires to elevate the way they eat with innovative, convenient and fresh flavor.

The Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Canada and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association successfully concluded their annual joint advocacy event, Fall Harvest, which took place in Ottawa from Nov. 20 - 22.

This year's event centered on several key focus areas:

Nash Produce will once again be a major player at the upcoming New York Produce Show, as company president Thomas Joyner will be taking advantage of every opportunity that the show has to offer.