As part of its ongoing growth, Latitude 36 Foods continued its expansion with the completion of a new 250,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse facility in Corona, CA.

NatureSweet donated 8 million pounds of produce to food banks throughout North America in 2022. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers are among the produce donations to food banks in the United States and Mexico.

While the company is one of the top-selling brands in snacking tomatoes, it also continues to drive tremendous growth in other vegetable categories and estimates the donations this year translate into almost $8 million worth of produce.

In very early 2023, Agri-Packing Supply Inc. will open its new facility in southern Arizona, significantly expanding the capacity of its cooling and logistics business. “This new facility will add 200,000 square feet to our existing capacity,” said Sales Executive Jorge Ruiz, adding that the facility is in the Rio Rico Industrial Park in Nogales. “We are very excited to welcome new partners into this facility.”

SpartanNash has partnered with one of the world's leading fresh food technology companies, Afresh Technologies. SpartanNash will pilot the Afresh platform, an Artificial Intelligence-powered predictive ordering and inventory management solution, at 10 of its owned Family Fare grocery stores in the Grand Rapids, MI, area.

The I Love Produce team spent a week inspecting the new crop garlic coming into the harvest season in Mendoza, Argentina, and got a dose of the World Cup and soccer culture to boot.

Jim Provost and Sebastian Zamores spent a week visiting their garlic suppliers in Mendoza, which happened to coincide with Argentina’s quarterfinal World Cup match against the Netherlands.

Community-Suffolk began more than eight decades ago in the Boston area, incorporating in 1962. During that time it has supplied produce to all of New England, New York, the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec. 

It was about 18 months ago when it moved completely into the Chelsea Market, which has worked out extremely well for the company.