With capability to source fresh produce from New Jersey to Florida, Lou Pizzo LLC is able to provide its customers with product meeting their individual specifications.

“The company started in New Jersey in 1967,” Company Manager Lou Pizzo told The Produce News. “In 1986, we opened another office in Florida.”

Florida operations are based in Parkland. The company works with local growers along the East Coast and is a year-round buyer-broker-distributor.

Jean-Pierre Fournier, procurement manager at Sobeys Produce Inc., sampled a strawberry at Wish Farms.

TAMPA, FL — The field tours

Excitement is in the air for Curry & Co. with the 2012 Vidalia sweet onion just around the corner.

Wendy Brannen, executive director of the Vidalia Onion Committee, in the committee’s booth, which took top honors for its Hollywood theme.

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Frederick J. Giorgi, chairman of Giorgio Foods Inc. in Temple, PA, died Feb. 18 at the age of 81.