Noe Arias joins Amazon Produce
NOE ARIAS joined Los Angeles-based Amazon Produce Network of California as a sales representative.
In his new position at the company, Mr. Arias is responsible for finding new sales opportunities while maintaining business relations with current customers.
Prior to joining Amazon Produce Network, he worked for his family, which owns a produce company located in the 7th Street terminal market in Los Angeles.
Indianapolis Fruit's The Produce Mom honored as a Woman of Influence
Lori Taylor, author of The Produce Mom, was recently recognized by the National Center of Excellence in Women's Health as a Woman of Influence. The Woman of Influence distinction is reserved for community leaders who serve as a resource for under-served women, and provide a platform for both community and professional health care education forums to occur.
Central San Joaquin Valley farmers feel ignored in historic water quality efforts
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board has seemingly ignored outreach efforts by commodity groups in California's San Joaquin Valley as it works through the proposed long-term Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program.
The seven-member board heard presentations from staff members at a recent Central Valley Water Board meeting. The day revolved around a draft of rules to monitor groundwater and control discharges of contaminants, including fertilizers and pesticides.
King Farms’ new farm and packing facility now in operation
King Farms, a Naples, FL-based grower-shipper, added a new farm and packing facility in White Springs, FL, a strategic location that will give the firm access to all produce grown in Florida and Georgia.
“We are now operating at our new farm and packing facility in White Springs, Florida,” Steve Oldock, president of King Farms LLC, told The Produce News. “Our first harvest will be during the first week of October.”
After more than a half-century, General Produce is still going strong
After more than 50 years as one of the Southeast’s premier providers of produce and logistics, General Produce Inc. is humming right along.
“We’re a well-oiled machine. We just keep doing the same thing over and over again but we do it well,” said General Produce Sales Manager Andrew Scott, who will also take over the reins as president of the Southeast Produce Council at the fall conference in Asheville, NC.
Awe Sum Organics adds Aloe Driscoll
Awe Sum Organics, based in Santa Cruz, CA, hired ALOE DRISCOLL as its new marketing coordinator.
Aspen Produce upgrades with traceability codes on bags’ Kwik Loks
CENTER, CO — Enhancing its vertically integrated farming-shipping-marketing package, Aspen Produce in Center, CO, has upgraded with a new Kwik Lok print system that codes all bag closures with traceability information.
The system was in place earlier this summer following testing Aspen conducted on the Kwik Lok prototype earlier.
Sunlight International Sales' fall-themed grapes now shipping
Both retailers and consumers can savor the holidays Dulcich-style, as from Sept. 4 through Oct. 31 Sunlight International packs and ships its “Harvest Hobgoblin” brand of premium California table grapes to locations across the United States and Canada.
Fresh “Hobgoblin” grapes are available in red, green and blue-black varietals.
Retailers fill shelves with pink mushroom tills to support breast cancer awareness month
Pink mushroom tills fill shelves across the nation as retailers participate in the Mushroom Council's in-store City of Hope Pink Campaign supporting breast cancer research and awareness to coincide with October's National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
WSPC announces new hire for director of industry outreach
The Washington State Potato Commission announced the addition of Raina Spence as the director of industry outreach.