Danaco Solutions has hired Jessie Garcia as senior manager of food safety and regulatory compliance. Garcia brought with her a deep expertise and ground-up approach to enhancing the company's food-safety standards across the supply chain.

1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc., a leading provider of thoughtful expressions designed to help inspire customers to give more, connect more and build more and better relationships, announced that Adolfo Villagomez was appointed as CEO on May 12. Villagomez succeeded Jim McCann, who remains executive chairman and is actively involved in the company.

NuBerry Farms is a true 52-week berry supplier, with domestic production in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and Michigan, and import operations based in Peru to ensure consistent, year-round availability.

Atlantic Grocery Supply, the grocery division of Pompano, FL-based Sun Commodities Inc. (Sun Group), and C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC are partnering to provide wholesale supply solutions to retailers in the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Sun Group has a deep history of supplying retailers throughout the Southeast region and the Caribbean. AGS, Sun Group’s grocery division, has continued to expand over the years. In this agreement with C&S, export customers will be supplied with the most competitive pricing and a vast grocery assortment of more than 40,000 items.

Vanguard Food LP, a privately held produce industry joint venture between Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, Sweat Equities and Village Farms International, closed a transaction that created a new, emerging leader in the North American produce industry.

With a 22 percent boost in entries this year, the 2025 Idaho Potato Lovers Display Contest put the spotlight on even more retail produce departments around the country — including nearly 140 winners of $150,000-plus in cash and prizes.