The South Carolina Department of Agriculture and the Eastern Produce Council hosted a night at the driving range at TopGolf in Edison, NJ, on April 25. The event marked the 51st year of the SCDA and EPC relationship.

Balls Food Stores has been serving Kansas City in the grocery industry for 100 years. In 1923, Sidney and Mollie Ball purchased a building on the corner of 16th and Stewart in Kansas City, KS. That decision would lead to generations of Balls family members dedicated to working and serving in the Kansas City community through their grocery business.

Pismo Oceano Vegetable Exchange Growers LLC  located in Oceano, CA, has purchased an ownership position in Beachside Produce, located in Guadalupe, CA.

The two companies concluded several months of negotiations last week, which will culminate in merging the two sales forces into one larger Beachside sales team that will sell all commodities of the combined entity beginning June 4.

Gabriela D’Arrigo, vice president of communications and marketing at D'Arrigo New York, has joined Brighter Bites as its newest board member.

Mike Kindy has joined Dollar Tree Inc. as chief supply chain officer. Kindy has more than 34 years of management experience in retail logistics and operating distribution centers.

Tozer offer a wide range of high-quality celery varieties for the primary growing season. Tozer has been at the forefront of celery varietal development since it established the world's first commercial F1 hybrid celery variety.