Berlin was the place to do business earlier this month, as more than 91,000 people from across the global fruit and vegetable trade came together for Fruit Logistica 2025.

Walmart is currently working alongside an agritech startup to pilot a creative solution to food waste, which will help bring better, fresher products to the customer while giving the retailer the ability to source fresh produce from totally new countries of origin. All this serves a greater goal: augmenting the supply chain and creating more sustainable alternatives for customers.

Zespri has released its final forecast for the 2024-25 season with strong demand and its largest-ever crop putting the kiwifruit marketer on track to exceed its longstanding target of $4.5 billion in global revenue.

Forecast per tray returns have strengthened from the last forecast in November for all fruit categories other than green, which remains in line with November’s forecast.

C.H. Robinson, one of the world’s largest logistics providers managing 37 million shipments annually, helps customers navigate a busier kick-off to the floral season, including leveraging a new farm-to-store floral program in Latin America to enhance its end-to-end temp-controlled supply chain solutions for retailers.

International Fresh Produce Association has named Colleen Fagundus as the new director of floral. Fagundus joined IFPA  in 2016 working in sales and membership for almost 10 years.

The new year brought improved sales for the online grocery market. January 2025 ended with $10 billion in monthly sales, a 16.6 percent increase over January 2024 according to the most recent Brick Meets Click Grocery Shopper Survey, sponsored by Mercatus. Not only were January 2025 sales stronger than last year, it was also the sixth consecutive month of eGrocery sales above $9.5 billion, fueled in large part by the broad and deep discounts on membership and/or subscription programs.