W.P. Produce filling marketplace niche with tropicals, nontropicals
W.P. Produce Corp. has been moving a full line of exotic and tropical produce from its operations in Miami since 1984. The company was created by Founder and Chief Executive Officer Willy Pardo and his daughter, Desiree Morales, who serves as vice president. The company’s commodity manifest includes a broad list of tropical fruits and roots. W.P. Produce has partnerships in place with Florida producers of boniato, Florida avocados, guava and mamey.
Careful business strategies pay off at New Limeco
New Limeco LLC, located in Princeton, FL, has seen years of carefully laid business plans lay a strong foundation for a flourishing global enterprise. All this steady, hard work has turned the company into a powerhouse and one of the larger full-line importers and distributors of Florida avocado, tropical fruit and other vegetables.
Leading its tropicals and Hispanic product manifest are items such as Florida avocados, limes, mamey, papaya, mangos, starfruit, dry and water coconuts as well as guava, kumquats and dragonfruit.
Del Monte Fresh says growth of tropical fruits due to sophisticated tastes and consumer trends in healthy eating
Dionysios Christou, vice president of marketing for Del Monte Fresh Produce, is confident that the tropical fruit category will continue to grow as consumers develop more sophisticated tastes.
“Also helping to push the category are trends in healthy eating,” said Christou. “Combined, these factors also contribute to the continued growth in the new tropical fruits category.”
Del Monte Fresh continues to grow the pineapple category as it expands some of its current operations and seek new opportunities to support its growth.
Southern Specialties: Tropicals continue to be a growth phenomenon
Savvy companies like Pompano Beach, FL-based Southern Specialties stay on top of movements in order to continually provide their customers with the specialty items that are trending at all times.
Charlie Eagle, vice president of business development for the leading grower, importer and distributor of specialty produce, told The Produce News that the tropicals category continues to be a growth phenomenon in produce aisles and on foodservice menus.
Southern Specialties perfectly aligned for a great spring season
If groundhog predictions this year are accurate, we’re in for an early spring. And with that comes the reminder that spring holidays are just around the corner.
Southern Specialties is perfectly aligned to offer some of the most highly sought-after spring produce.
“We see good demand for our sugar snap peas, sno peas, french beans and baby carrots from Guatemala,” Charlie Eagle, vice president of business development for the Pompano Beach, FL-based company. “And we love white asparagus from Peru. It’s an exciting addition to Easter menus.”
Miami location helps Nickey Gregory Co. cover the Southeast with overnight service
Headquartered in Atlanta, the Nickey Gregory Co. opened its second location in Miami in 2010 and business has boomed ever since. The next phase of growth goes beyond U.S. borders with a new export program to the Caribbean islands.
Salmonella risk prompts Wonderful Pistachios to issue voluntary recall
Wonderful Pistachios is voluntarily recalling a limited number of flavors and sizes of in-shell and shelled pistachios due to a risk of Salmonella contamination. Health officials are currently investigating 11 cases in nine states that have been reported in connection with this matter.