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 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, based in Santa Cruz, CA, hired ALOE DRISCOLL as its new marketing coordinator.

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.

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.

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.