Tanimura & Antle announced strategic changes, additions and promotions within its sales team to position itself for strategic growth.  The company has hired new key sales team members, reorganized existing sales staff and promoted vital sales team members.  

Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. and Coborn’s Inc. have reached an agreement for AWG to serve as the primary wholesale supplier to Coborn’s. Based in St. Cloud, MN, Coborn’s is a 100-year-old employee-owned grocery retailer with nearly 9,300 employees and 59 grocery stores across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin operating under the Coborn’s, Cash Wise Foods, Marketplace Foods and Hornbacher’s banners.

Four Seasons Produce, based in Ephrata, PA, announced the winners of its Berry Bonanza retail display contest, held in conjunction with Driscoll’s.

The contest was available for Four Seasons’ independent retailer, natural food store and food co-op customers who purchased and displayed organic and/or conventional Driscoll’s berries through Four Seasons Produce. Entries were accepted from May 17 to June 14 and were required to have at least three different berry varieties in their displays, promoting the Berry Patch concept.

Joe Pezzini likes to say his family were small family farmers before it was in vogue.

He grew up in the Salinas Valley, which is where his grandfather, Giuseppe Pezzini, and his father, Angelo Pezzini, landed after immigrating from Italy in the 1930s. His grandfather started farming and growing artichokes in the Carmel Valley, near Highway 1, where the crop was a recipient of the cool ocean breezes.

SpartanNash operates more than 145 corporate-owned grocery stores in nine states, and distributes to more than 2,100 independent locations throughout the country. Its primary retail banners include Family Fare, Martin’s Super Markets, D&W Fresh Market, VG’s Grocery and Dan’s Supermarket. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic SpartanNash employees have stood tall as they served their customers bravely.

This month, BelleHarvest and The Produce News salute SpartanNash.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on Southern Produce Distributors Inc. in Faison, NC, for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operators of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.