Frieda’s Specialty Produce is prepared to help retailers scare up specialty sales with a wide produce selection and merchandising tips for creating a Halloween destination display for the third year in a row. The company will also support produce sales with an October “Spooky Foods” social media campaign to drive shoppers into stores.

Weis Markets will launch its sixth annual Fight Hunger program to run throughout Hunger Action Month this September. The program works to provide food and monetary donations to local food banks and emergency food providers in Weis’ 165-store service area.

WASHINGTON — Taylor Farms de  Mexico pledges to follow a Cyclospora sampling program for leafy greens and other products from its farms and processing facility after the Food & Drug Administration gave the company the green light to begin shipping product again to the United States.

On Aug. 12, the Salinas, CA-based company officially informed FDA it was voluntarily suspending production at the Taylor Farms de Mexico facility as of Aug. 9 and would not resume production and shipping of its leafy greens or salad mix without FDA’s approval.

Stemilt is helping retailers achieve Fruits & Veggies—More Matters Role Model status through its new “Tasty, Healthy, and Fun” More Matters promotion for apples.

Sunview Marketing International in Delano, CA, which has had an in-house breeding program for 35 years and has, over the years, grown and marketed several grape varieties coming out of that program, has introduced this year a new green seedless grape called Stella Bella that Scott Boyajian, director of sales, described as a mid-season replacement for Thompson seedless.

SPARTA, MI — Two new added-value packs are being offered this fall by Riveridge Produce Marketing Inc., which is based here.

Riveridge President Don Armock said Aug. 7 that brand names for the products were still undecided.

But one of the new items will be a clamshell containing two different apple varieties. For now, Riveridge is calling this a “twofer” pack.