Hy-Vee Inc. will host a quarterly Best of Local Brands Summit in May to expand and enhance the product offerings at its more than 285 retail stores in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Since the Best of Local Brands summits began in early 2021, more than 125 new brands have been selected and are available to Hy-Vee customers.

This year, Hy-Vee continues to elevate its efforts of identifying suppliers with diverse backgrounds and encourages minority- and women-owned businesses to apply for the quarterly summits.

For 15 years, Vidalia Sweet Produce has earned a strong reputation as a trusted woman-owned farming corporation that specializes in the production, shipping and sales of Vidalia sweet onions, red and yellow onions.

The company is the only woman-owned production, sales, and shipping facility in the Vidalia region, certified as a WBE (Women Business Enterprise) by the National Women’s Business owners Council.  

Camposol, an agroindustrial and export company based in Lima, Peru, announced that CEO Jose Antonio Gomez Bazan has been named as a member of “The 23 of 23” list by Forbes Peru.

The online grocery market finished last month with $8.8 billion in total sales, up 1.5 percent compared to last year, according to the monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey. Excluding Ship-to-Home sales, the core eGrocery segments of Delivery and Pickup slipped 1.2 percent compared to last year, which reflects a drop of almost 9 percent in Delivery sales and a gain of nearly 5 percent for Pickup during the month.

As the first to load South African plums headed for North America after eight years in 2022, Oppy plans to continue energizing the category with a successful season two.

The opportunity emerged when U.S. authorities tightened 2021 Chilean plum import regulations following pest detection — Oppy advised its retail partners to substitute with fruit from South Africa where it had recently enlisted Sila Louw to manage its operations.