Avocado buyers are over-indexed shoppers at retail, HAB study finds
If you put an avocado in your shopping basket during your trip to the supermarket, you are most likely going to buy a lot more groceries than your average consumer.
Index Fresh continues its growth of bagged avocado products
With the consumption of avocados continuing to increase at a double-digit rate in year over year sales, Index Fresh Inc. is focused on working individually with each customer to help them meet the demands of their own shoppers. A result of this has been a significant increase in the selling of bagged avocados.
Robert F. Weis, former chairman of Weis Markets, dies at 96
Robert F. Weis, one of the nation’s most successful food retailing executives over the past half century, has died. Mr. Weis, 96, was the principal figure in the growth and continued success of Weis Markets.
Bi-Lo produce departments see price cuts
Bi-Lo has dropped prices up to 53 percent in its produce department and throughout its stores at all 182 locations in the Carolinas and Georgia. More than 1,000 products are included in the new regular pricing program.
First blueberry air charter from Peru arrives in New Jersey
The first air-chartered import of blueberries from Peru arrived in Newark, NJ, this week through a collaborative venture, which was spearheaded by Advance Customs Brokers & Consulting LLC.
Chelan Fresh launches Healthy You website and video series
While this time of year is often filled with indulgent food, Chelan Fresh has launched a new website — HealthyYouInOneMinute.com — to help guide consumers down the right nutritional path.
Vida Fresh Inc. hires two new staffers
Vida Fresh Inc. announced the hiring of two new staffers to its sales desk in Morro Bay, CA.
AFM foresees bright future for avocado industry
There is simply no denying that avocados have become one of the fastest growing produce items in terms of U.S. consumption. And despite the fact that volume has doubled in less than a decade, many believe the growth can continue at its current pace for quite some time.
McDaniel Fruit Co. poised for a future of continued growth
Just a handful of years ago if you would have asked Rankin McDaniel Sr. if the United States could consume 2.5 billion pounds of avocados in a single year, he wouldn’t have thought it was possible.
Now, the president of McDaniel Fruit Co. in Fallbrook, CA, believes that number will be easily eclipsed as he said avocados are still on a huge upward sales curve with “exponential growth” continuing in the near future. “Right now I am not surprised at all at what we are able to achieve.”