The 2023 Northwest cherry crop has great potential relative to crop volume and fruit size, according to Northwest Cherry Growers. It sees a potential for a crop of 19.9 million 20-pound boxes, a 50 percent increase in crop size as compared to the 13.3 million box crop in 2022

eGrocery sales for April 2023 totaled $8.2 billion, up 0.9 percent versus a year ago. Year-over-year performance varied widely across the three key segments as Delivery sales jumped 20 percent, Pickup dipped 3 percent and Ship-to-Home plunged 19 percent, according to the latest Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey.

US Foods is acquiring Renzi Foodservice, a broadline distributor located in Watertown, NY. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023, is the first for the company since April 2020 and the first under CEO Dave Flitman’s leadership. It will allow US Foods to further expand its reach into central upstate New York, where the company does not have a distribution center.

At the National Watermelon Promotion Board, promotional opportunities at retail include in-store, digital and social media marketing components, providing customer reach for product and nutrition education as an extension to the brick-and-mortar element that is coming back into focus.

Providing accurate and knowledgeable product information is a path to purchase opportunity, according to Juliemar Rosado, director of retail and international marketing at the NWPB.

For decades, the family-owned D’Ottavio Farms has been a trusted name working with New Jersey produce.

In July of 2022, Sunrise Logistics warehouse expansion of 135,000 square feet in Ephrata, PA, went fully live. Since then, the company has seen substantial growth from both existing customers and in the development of new third-party users.