Procurant has launched an artificial intelligence solution specifically for perishables category management in retail grocery: Procurant Fresh AI. The new solution leverages the company’s extensive expertise in the highly volatile perishables category to reduce costs, streamline decision-making, eliminate complex reporting and deliver accurate insights to executives and frontline users alike.

In a bold move to support U.S. retailers and health-conscious consumers, Caputo & Guest, a leading U.S.-based grower of fresh exotic mushrooms based in Kennet Square, PA, has cut prices across its organic mushroom line.

Early humans ate excessive amounts of organic plant foods to survive. Plants were their main source of food. They gathered and consumed fruit, root vegetables, peas, beans, tubers, seeds, nuts, flowers, legumes, leaves, acorns and water plants.

They also ate wild grain, which they hammered into flour. This organic, plant-based diet provided the necessary nutrition and energy for the early humans in order to carry out their survival lives in those days.

Felipe Arango has been named CEO of Fair Trade USA. He has served as FTUSA’s chief operating officer and the interim-CEO since FTUSA's founder stepped down in September 2024.

Arango brings a unique combination of leadership and expertise at the intersection of social capitalism, sustainability and the fair trade movement. As a social entrepreneur and activist, he began his career in his home country of Colombia more than 25 years ago working with rural and Indigenous communities to improve livelihoods.

Associated Wholesale Grocers and Healthy Family Project are kicking off their 2025 Produce for Kids campaign. This marks a milestone nine-year partnership for HFP and AWG's Springfield and Gulf Coast divisions.

dVida will be spotlighting its fresh tropical category, mango, yellow and red dragon fruit, ginger, lime, malanga and golden berries, alongside its dried offerings of mango, banana and dragon fruit while at Viva Fresh at booth No. 408.