Ready Pac Foods, Inc. has hired Barbara Moreno as its new marketing director of salad, snacking and vegetables. Reporting directly to Barb Dan, Ready Pac’s senior vice president of marketing, Moreno brings over 20 years of food marketing and sales experience in consumer packaged goods, both domestic and international.

Ahold USA announced the departure of Anthony Hucker as its Giant Landover division president, effective Sept. 13. Hucker decided to resign from the company for an unnamed opportunity.

Limoneira Co., a leading agribusiness based in Santa Paula, CA, has completed the acquisition of Associated Citrus Packers Inc., a privately owned Arizona corporation.

The purchase price of $18.6 million was paid with the issuance of approximately 705,000 unregistered shares of Limoneira common stock with a value of $16 million, $1 million in cash and the repayment of $1.6 million in ACP's long term debt.

Duda Farm Fresh Foods is teaming with Sony Pictures Animations’ comedy, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2," and other leading fresh produce companies, including California Giant Berry Farms, Grimmway Farms and Cal-Organic in a campaign to support Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month.

River Point Farms, a leading onion producer based in Hermiston, OR, announced that brothers Bob and Rick Hale have bought back control of the company.

Albert’s Organics is a wholesale distributor of fresh organic produce and other perishable items including meats, cheeses, juices, dairy products and more.