Elite Apple Co., has partnered with Honeybear Brands to promote its apple varieties this coming season. The Elite Apple Co. is a privately held, grower-owned production facility located in Sparta, MI, the heart of Michigan’s apple country. The legacy grower has been in the premium apple business for more than four decades, a strategic move by Honeybear Brands, bolstering its Midwest programs.

California Treasurer Fiona Ma and her team visited two prominent GrubMarket wholesale and distributor facilities, JC Produce and SGS Produce, in Los Angeles on Aug. 18.

Wakefern Food Corp. will expand its us of Simbe’s business intelligence solution at ShopRite stores following a successful pilot.

Over the past several months, Wakefern fully vetted Simbe’s comprehensive platform in more than 20 stores to ensure that its technology solution seamlessly integrated into store environments and optimized inventory management. After a highly productive pilot, the stores were able to leverage Simbe’s real-time insights to meaningfully reduce out-of-stock rates, maximizing inventory availability and exceeding industry standards.

As one of Michigan’s oldest grower-owned distributors of fresh apples, now in its 66th year, BelleHarvest is known for building deep partnerships and offering consistent, high-quality, flavorful apples while staying rooted within the local community.

To do this, BelleHarvest partners with top growers throughout Michigan to project future flavor trends and maximize productivity while still maintaining the high-quality standards it has long been recognized for.

From garage to greatness, this IFPA Global Show keynote speaker is known for his tech prowess, inventions, entrepreneurship and philanthropy.  

Steve Wozniak will speak about technological innovation and the future of technology at The Global Produce & Floral Show as the International Fresh Produce Association brings business-building speakers to the industry’s top stage Oct. 19-21 in Anaheim, CA. 

Pear producers in Washington and Oregon voted to continue their federal marketing order this year, with the largest margin in the order’s history. Pear growers have the opportunity to vote every six years on whether or not to continue the marketing order. For the marketing order to continue, two-thirds or more of producers voting, or producers representing two-thirds or more of the volume voted needed to vote in favor of continuance.