Sun World International hired Bernardo Calvo as president and chief operating officer, reporting to CEO David Marguleas.

Calvo spent the bulk of his career at the Monsanto Co., now part of Bayer AG, in significant leadership roles across multiple countries. Calvo held CEO roles in regions around the world, as well as global head for some of the company’s franchises with responsibility for thousands of team members and several billion dollars per year.

The always good avocado brand reaffirms its commitment to good health and breast cancer awareness as the official title sponsor of college football's 2023 Cure Bowl

Later this week Walmart will celebrate the largest single-day rollout of re-grand openings in company history. The re-grand opening projects represent more than half a billion dollars in capital investments in 117 stores across 30 states. The company plans to continue modernizing its stores across the country in 2024.

“We’re investing more than $9 billion over a two-year period to upgrade and modernize more than 1,400 of our stores across the U.S.,” said John Furner, CEO of Walmart U.S.

These flavor-packed chorizo and Tomato Steamed Mussels

With a year under its belt as a direct seller of its own production to the U.S. market, GLC Cerritos is expecting significant volume growth over the coming years as one-third of its 2900 acres of avocado groves in the state of Jalisco in Central Mexico are less than three years old.

Veteran business editor Seth Mendelson has joined The Produce News in a newly created role: New York Editor.

In his new role, Mendelson will be devoted exclusively to covering the vibrant New York produce industry, with special emphasis on the Hunts Point Market, as well as greater New York area wholesalers, retailers, foodservice distributors, brokers and shippers.