Salinas, CA -- Knobeloch Jenkins Associates LLC announced Sept. 25 the formation of a collaborative strategic partnership with Bancroft Partners LLC, a San Francisco-based financial advisory firm, serving companies, entrepreneurs and investors.

LOS ANGELES -- Gourmet Trading Co. announced the third week in September that the purple asparagus season in Peru has started. Both 11- pound and five-pound boxes are available and ready for promotion in the retail and foodservice sectors.

Domex Superfresh Growers, based in Yakima, WA, will be unveiling two new product packaging options at this year's Produce Marketing Association convention and trade show, Oct. 2-5 in Anaheim, CA.

The company will exhibit at booth No. 3473. With thousands of acres of the hugely popular Honeycrisp apple coming into production, Domex has created a high-graphic Euro box dedicated to marketing the variety.

Salinas, CA -- River Ranch Fresh Foods LLC recently expanded its senior management team to include two industry veterans, one in the area of sales and marketing and the other in the area of agricultural operations.

Bravante Produce, a well-known grower-shipper in the California citrus industry, is the newest member of Sunkist Growers, the grower-owned citrus marketing cooperative headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA.

CORAL GABLES, FL -- Del Monte Fresh Produce Co. N.A. Inc. , a subsidiary of Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., a leading vertically integrated producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, launched Sept. 23 its new vending line of healthy snack alternatives at the National Automated Merchants Convention in Chicago.

The line, which features specially packaged bananas and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, offers vending operators a solution to meet society's growing demand for healthy snacks in vending machines.