IFPA Global Produce & Floral Show exceeds expectations
October 31, 2022
The “October” show was back and as good as ever. The International Fresh Produce Association hosted its inaugural Global Produce & Floral Show in Orlando, FL, Oct. 27-29, to rave reviews. The show floor was abuzz immediately upon opening and stayed busy throughout the two-day event.
“I am thrilled with the overwhelming support our first Global Produce & Floral Show received from across the supply chain this year," said IFPA CEO Cathy Burns. "This was a long-overdue return to gathering in October and it was made possible due to the leadership and support of our exhibitors, sponsors, volunteer leaders, and guests."
Sharese Roper and Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak of Produce for Better Health.
Sarah Consalo, Chelsea Consalo, Anthony Consalo and Nick Giordano of Fresh Wave Fruit & Produce.
Kevin Goeser, John Benedyk, Stephanie Hilton, Ryan Rutherford, Cindy Barrios and Rene Fuentes of Tom Lange Co.
Jessica Peri and Peter Ng of Peri & Sons Farms.
Sevil Has, Helen Aquino, Pembe Sari and Tiffany Bennett of Village Farms Fresh.
Alberto Cantillana and Carla Segado of Stellar Bouquet with Justina and Michael Madden Macadu Fresh.
Angela Sommers of Ten Acre Marketing and Charis Armer of Pace International.
Maggie Bartholow, Morgan Stuckert and Jessica Press of Lipman Family Farms.
Daniella Velazquez DeLeon of Organics Unlimited.
Johnnie Knowles and Diana Adilene Ramirez of Farm Fresh Produce.
Sara Lozano and Mary Fregoso of Sambrailo Packaging.
Mario Cuba, Carmen Puerta, Sergio Torres, Andrew Maiman, Jake Kamysz, Maria Aviles, John Kinch, Maria Fernanda and Armando Rojas of Camposol S.A.
Jennifer Velasquez of FullTilt Marketing and Sabrina Fisher of the Colombia Avocado Board.
Shelly Henschel and Tammy Burgardt of The Little Potato Co.
Jon Wall, Ryan Lockman, Nick Osmulski, Sharon Robb, Betsey Coon, Mayme Mesa, Lauren Buning and Sarah Quackenbush of North Bay Produce.
Dan Canales, Greg Heinz, Michele McNeece, Paul Keery and Steve Dimen of Ippolito International.
Giselle Soares, Kelby Sullivan, Suzanne Dannunzio Maribel Davila, Max Dickstein, Paul Panza, Deanna Carlsen, Tony Seeger and Rocio Vargas of the Ready Pac Bistro team from the Bonduelle Group.
Frank Neufeld, Christine Lau, Jocelyn Mastronardi, Isaac Schmitt and Spencer Lightfoot of Nature Fresh Farms.
Ryan Bitter and Greg Beach of Nature’s Reward.
Gonzalo Bertran, Pete Creager, Andrew Hernandez and Lucio Rainelli of LGS Specialty Sales LTD.
Jean-Maurice Daigle of Potatoes New Brunswick.
David Arena of Frank Donio and Butler Anderson of American Blueberries.
Kristi Hocutt of Triple J Produce.
John Cannon, Brett Reasor, Krista Beckstead, Dan Wolford, Ian Kirkpatrick, Ellie Tucker, Dan Davis, Mike Marboe and Shawn Loudon of Starr Ranch Growers.
Bryan Biederman, JD Poole and Richie Sowell of Scotlynn Sweet-Pac Growers.
Katie Rees of the South Carolina Department of Agriculture.
Alberto Obregon of Vision Import Group, Angela Aronica of Vision Import – William H. Kopke Jr., Dan Cohen of Charlotte’s Express, Mary McCullough of Vision Import – William H. Kopke Jr., Damon Francis of Willim H. Kopke Jr. and Christine McCullough of Vision Import – William H. Kopke Jr.
Nour Abdrabbo of Unitec S.p.A.
GR Fresh was represented at the IFPA Global Produce & Floral Show by (front row) Luis Webb, Antonio Villalobos, Jose Miguel del Hoyo, Daniel Salazar and Javier Gonzalez, and (back row) Cecilia Gonzalez, Margarita Gozalishvili, Miguel Gonzalez, Danny Canada, Juan Fernando, Phil Swim, Montse Segura, Tony Incaviglia and Jose Gonzalez.
Stephen Cowan, Ajit Saxena of Mucci Farms.
Byron Massey, Reagan Salyers and Lee Kimball of Somerfield Farms.
Cat Gipe-Stewart, Mike Preacher and Paul Newstead of Domex Superfresh Growers.
Thomas Joyner, Randi Ricks and David Bradley of Nash Produce.
Liliana Burgara Maldonado from Arizona State University with Michael O’Brien of Monterey Mushrooms.
Taycie Matthews and Samantha Gilbert of Matthews Ridgeview Farms.
Bryan Burkhalter, JC Nyssen and Damien Yank of Sev-Rend.
Jennifer Petersen, Dane Joubert, Rupert Maude and Rina Perrault with Sun World International.
Tony Pinto (center) of Harvest Sensations flanked by Josh Auerbach and Paul Auerbach of Maurice A. Auerbach Inc.
Ernst van Eeghan, Bob Licker, Jeff Church, Jennifer Wagner Sanchez, Angelic Meza, Rick Russo and Alex McCloskey of Church Bros. Farms.
Edward Vega Konareg and Philippe Forest of Green Earth Produce Trading.
David Arias, Stefanie Gutierrez, Yanelin Gonzalez, Aviana Estebanez and Enrique Vignolo of Harvest Sensation.
Diana Lam, Joe Fox and Jose Martin Uribe of William H. Kopke Jr.
Jana Verdellen and Marcel Verdellen of Satori.nl with Charlotte Vick and Ken Sikes of Vick Family Farms.
Derrick Bender, Konnor Cantrell, Sean Nelsen, Charles Rowland, Johnny Arjona, Kiah Ruvalcaba, Maile Devers, Vanessa Villarreal and Lauren White of Fowler Packing Co.
Mike Smith, Tyler Green and Richard Ryan of Spice World Inc.
Sanda Medina, Dave Hewitt and Jon Vance of 4Earth Farms.
Maria Mendez and Ninsy Alcantara of El Sol Brands.
Randy Giumarra, Mimi Corsaro and Shauna Rockwell of Giumarra Vineyards.
Mark Daniels (second from left) of the Idaho Potato Commission with Alan Smith, Mike Roberts, Troy Penrod and Tamra Barnes of Harp’s Food Stores.
Teresa Baggarley, BJ Thurlby and Keith Hu of NW Cherries.
Drew Horn, Duncan Marriott and Seth Nordell of Kings River Packing Inc.
Kelsey Gomes of Fresh Innovations California.
Ben Antongiovanni of Pure Palm.
Jason Vee, Candice Vee, Ava Vee and Obie Vee of Vee’s Marketing.
Christy Griggs, Melissa Edmondson, Lindsey Edmonson, Cody Edmonson, Lauren Edmon-son, Joe Edmonson and Trent Edmonson of Topashaw Farms Packing.
Joe Merenda, Nicole Zapata and Hana Mohsin of Misionero.
Matthew Wulf of Fresha.
Matthew Valentine, Yannick Carpentier and Paul Romano of FMS Fresh Produce.
John Glaze and Matthew Banghart of LK Packaging.
Pedro Corredoira, David Wilkes and William Rich of Daumar Corp.
Daniel Yao, Jeremy Green, Veronica Alvarez and Gerardo Ibarra Gonzalez of International Paper.
Eugenio Martinez and Alejandro Rodriquez of Mex Fresh.
Helen Davlin and William Martinelli of Natalie’s Organic Juice Co.
Marc Marchini, Jenny McAfee, Marissa Marchini and Jeff Marchini of J. Marchini Farms.
Prescott Leyba, Bailey Slayton and Alexandra Rae Molumby of Bako Sweet.
Tony Biondo and Nick Pacia of A.J. Trucco.
Andrea Gonzales, Brittney Bubb, Victoria Kovacevich and Suzette Overgaag of North Shore Greenhouses Inc.
Luis Gonzalez, Henry Salcedo, Juan Barrionuevo and Eduardo Herbst of SunFed.
Michael DuPuis of Divine Flavor.
At the Frank's Distributing booth were Elba Rivas of Exsar and Marielle Lujan of Frank’s.
Christine Fries and Joe Atchison of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.
Tim Rogers of Golden Sun Insights with Aimee Peters and Sara Palmisano of FirstFruits Farms.
Matt DiNitto, Abby Prior and Bill Bertrand of BrightFarms.
Brad Sanders, Dan Hawkins, John Rainey and Matthew Beck of Giltner Cos.
Juan Cardenas, Oscar Avila, Jason Kanis, Kyle McGrath and Jorge Bon of Tricar Sales.
Charlie Molina, Jean Patrice Honore, David Watson and Raul Carbajal of Fresh Farms.
Representing the Chula Brand line of produce were Darwin Dodd, Denise Alvarez and Emilio Garcia.
Paul Hemingway, Camille Balfanz and Heidi Wieber of Litehouse Inc.
Walking the floor at the IFPA Global Produce & Floral Show in Orlando were Gopal Gupta and Fazleen Khan-Gupta of City Wide Produce, based in Surrey, BC.
Derek Peterson, Tavann Young, Justin Reynolds and Jerry Tominaga of Wilcox Fresh.
Seeded Produce was represented by Isaac Losolla and Jose Vasquez.
Nato Napoles, Mauricio Asaf and Arturo Valdez of Dovex.
Danny Baltazar, Manny Fajardo, Hermy Torres and Adrian Gonzales of iDeal HarBest.
Mac Riggan, Casey Jackson and Alisha Jeffries of Chelan Fresh.
Willy Martinez, Adrian Vazquez, Sergio Yepiz and JC Medina of Frello Fresh.
Robin Bell of Fresh Express.
Danielle and Austin Fowler of Fowler Bros. Inc.
Sloan Lott, Delbert Bland and Brian Silvas of Bland Farms.
Amber Castillo, Elisha Cope, Casey Mills, Tamara Basaldua, Brian Amaral, Rod Braga, Kori Tuggle, Colby Pereira and Chuck Watson of Braga Fresh.
Tom Hughes of Earth Fresh, Mimmo Franzone of Longo Bros. Fruit Market and Dan Martin of Earth Fresh.
At the Coosemans Worldwide booth were Danny Coosemans, Rudi Coosemans and Paul Coosemans.
At the Phillip Garcia Customs Broker booth were Aide Sanchez, Phillip Garcia, Dante Galeazzi and Lily Garcia.
Kevin Stanger, Norman Brown and Demetrice Hollingsworth of Wada Farms.
Rebecca Catlett and Neal Carter of Arctic Apples.
Juan Jose, Miriam Castillo, Gilberto Sanchez, Arnoldo Lozano, Alma Cruz and Kent Richard of Port Laredo.
The Rainier Fruit team.
Dave Moquist, Katie Hall and TJ Hall of Northland Potatoes.
The Altar Produce team.
Chris Sandwick and Mattie Leid of Hess Bros. Fruit Co.
Kevin Hardison and Tommy Fleetwood of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture.
Raymond Mason, Carlos Visconti, Leona Neill, Ernesto Sanabria, Mark Wehby, Harold Paivarinta, Rob Jackson, Tom Coufal and Jan Schondube of Red Sun Farms.
Alberto Banales, Alejandro Varela, Carlos Alberto Figueroa, Jesus Quintana and Edson Noyola of Globalmex International Inc. with Alejandra Garcia and Anthony Otto of Magic Sun and Blue Demon.
Andre Rhorman of MountainKing Potatoes featured the company’s Butter Russet potatoes.
At the Avocados from Mexico booth were Alejandro Duran, Ryan Fukuda, Erick Coronado, Stephanie Bazan, Tanya Edwards, Alfonso Delgado and Oscar Garcia.
Kristen Reid, Jerry Butt and Emily Fragoso of The Mixtec Group.
Charlie Eagle and Tracey Monahan Southern Specialties Inc.
Kent Beesley, Mike Krage, Ross Johnson and Mark Daniels of the Idaho Potato Commission.
Erin Waters, Mason Goolsby, Logan McCumber, John Shuman, Lana Shuman, Lacie McCumber, Mark Shuman, Trish James, Broc Davis and Brandon Parker of Shuman Farms with Amanda Keefer and Tracy Shaw of the Healthy Family Project.
Jen Johnson, Joseph Tudor, Megan Koumis, Johnna Johnson and Anthony Stetson of Pretty Lady Vineyards.
Adam Cooper of The Wonderful Company with the company’s line of pistachio products, including the shelled Salt and Pepper variety that made its debut at the IFPA convention.
Bryan Garibay, Aaron Acosta, Pepe Barragan, Maggie Bezart Hall and Alejandro Martinez of La Bonanza Avocados.
Adrian Day-Murchison, Nelia Alamo, Lindsay Mertinez, Juan Magdaleno, Kyla Maxfield and LeighAnne Thomsen of Calavo.
Representing the National Watermelon Promotion Board at the inaugural IFPA Global Produce & Floral Show were Executive Director Mark Arney, Megan McKenna, Katie Manetti, Stephanie Barlow and Juliemar Rosado.
Joining the Jolly Green Giant at the Potandon booth were Carter Bray, Glen Reynolds, Brandy Thueson and Dan Fitzgerald.
At the Rice Fruit booth were Jill Hughey and Brenda Briggs.
Hector Altamira and Bridgette Weber of Bard Valley Natural Delights with Danny Seo of Naturally.
Andrés Ocampo, Melissa Hartmann de Barros, Cecilia Doyle and Jack Jackson of HLB Specialties.
Tara Murray, Crystal Berry and Jay Alley of Yo Quiero!
Alisha Albinder and Marcus Albinder of Hudson River Fruit Distributors.
Wayne Brown, Chrystal Cobb, Ross Whitley and Tiffany Lavely of Makoto Dressing Inc. with Bob McGowan of Affinity Sales.
Neil Millman, Honorio Aguilar and Jim Provost of I Love Produce.
Michael Harwood and John Cushing of New York Apple Sales Inc.
Kathy Michael Sponheim and Rachel Schoffstall of Fresh Solutions Network.
At the Coliman Banana booth were Aracely Van Dine, Sonia Mendoza, Ana Lizbeth Felix and Audee Rios.
Sean Steller and Kevin Donovan of Phillips Mushroom Farms.
Harold Sbrocco of Sbrocco International and Jimmy Matro of Produce Packing Solutions LLC with Cristian Martinez and Silvio Zenteno of Ex. Fruta. Austral Ltda.
From L&M Cos. Inc. were Trent Falkner, Bobby Creel, Cody Dunn, Johnny Lunsford, John Oxford and Ben Wells.
From Highline Mushrooms were Prakash Ganesan, John Sheehan, Sabrina Pokomandy, Stephanie Myles, Ashleigh Tucker and Jean Chauvin.
Lance Smith, Rick Billings, Sandy Brann, Kamden Bates and Tara Smith Vighetti of Smith’s Farm.
Tim Mansfield of Honeybear Brands with Victor Joseph, Joey Joseph and Dan McGlynn of Victor Joseph & Son Inc.
Mickey Bifulco, Violet Bifulco and Umberto Joseph Bifulco of Bifulco's Four Seasons Cold Storage.
Cindy Grissom, Candi Burge and Billy Martin of Crunch Pak.
Tim Boyd and Joe Gibbons of Yerecic Label.
Jordan Carter and Greg Leger of Leger & Sons.
Sophie Poussard and Steve Chaillou of Aroma One.
Jake Davis and James Towell of Florida Specialties.
Brian Jones of Sun Valley Potatoes Inc. with Rick Estess of RPE Inc.
Wayne Beck, Eduardo Garcia Chamorro, Victor Sebastian, Jaime Sebastian and Gene Lamour of Freshcourt.
Bernardo Guzman, Steve Clement, Nicole Gordy, Chuck Sinks, Tim Colin, Chuck Sinks Jr., Kevin Steiner and Kaci Komstadius of Sage Fruit Co.
Janet Levi and Scott Farmer of Shrewd Food.
Leilani Aletras, Whitney Lett and Yolanda Roundtree of Fresh From Florida.
Adrian Abreu of Fresh From Florida, Chris Gonzalez of Desbry, Samuel Vanaria of Eve International Logistics Inc. and Darren Leon, Rudy Leon, Wilson Dominguez, Willy Pardo, Desiree Morales and Monica Alameda of Desbry.
At the Eagle Eye Produce booth were Steve Yubeta, Wyatt Poole, John Gee, Jason Pearson, Dallin Klingler, Coleman Oswald, Lance Poole, Newman Giles and Alejandra Taylor.
Luis Alfaro, Juan Carlos Limon, Eric Patrick, Karla Cedillo, Jessica Leon, Alejandro Cedillo and Yaxi Diaz of Tajin.
Derek Rogers and Darrell Congdon of Florida Classic Growers.
Christian Bengard, Julie Lucido and Dan Cowley of Well-Pict.
Danelle Huber, Loren Foss and Rochelle Bohm of CMI Orchards.
Katiana Valdes, Rudy Lia-Kang and Helen Donato of Crystal Valley Foods.
Dave Howald of USA Pears awarding USA Pear’s Retailer of the Year to Albertsons/Safeway Denver Division.
David Elabed, Dan Mathieson, Deborah Rogers and Sarah Deaton of Zespri International.
Daniel Baldin, Mitch Hamelin and Mimmo Franzone of Longo’s stopped at the Equifruit booth to visit with Jennie Coleman and Kim Chakal of Equifruit.
Jason Sadoian and Monique Bienvenue at Bee Sweet Citrus Inc.
DJ Stornetta and Eric Holtzman of Produce Careers.
Jan Delyser and Jeff Oberman of the California Avocado Commission.
Brianna Shales, Elizabeth Price and Katie Harmon of Stemilt Growers.
Mark Masten and Amanda Sains of Joolies.
Kevin Batt, Aaron Quon and Kelsey Van Lissum of Oppy.
Jim Henderson, Alyssa Mateer and Tim Smith of Lineage Logistics.
Greg Gatzke and Jenna Hardie of ZAG Technical Services.
Devon Kennedy, Chris Veillon, Amanda Sebele, Cameron Higgins and Brenda Necic of Pure Flavor.
At the Sherman Trucking booth were Walter Palazuelos of Delta Fresh Sales with Arnulfo Perez, Isaac Gonzalez, Ramiro Urtusuastegui and Enrique Montano of Sherman Trucking.
Representing IFCO were Pat Young, Inigo Canalejo and Nate Klingler.
Scott Bergeron, John Bienus, Tim Grady and Gretchen Lane of Nature Seal Inc.
Cailin Kowalewski, Nathaniel Foster and Cynthia Haskins of New York Apple Association.
Larry Narwold, Robb Bertels, Crystal Chavez, Chris Olsen and Karl Lipscomb of Gold Coast Packing.
Larry White and Elise Silvester of Setton Farms.
Mike Janulis and Elizabeth Callinan of Inline Plastics.
James Rogers of Apeel Technology.
Michelle Korte, Josh Allen, Lauren Seigle, Rajah Nagarajah, Nikki Patrick and Colby Aaron of Tive.
Rita Santos and Joana Santos of Sofresco.
Shannon Kyle of Torrey Farms.
Heriberto Zazueta, Cindy Schwing, Daniel Ibarra, Francisco Franco, Fernando Figueroa, Eva Fuentes and David Rojas of Splendid by Porvenir.
Anthony Charlito and Chris Badaoa of DelFrescoPure.
Lila Baig, Teresa Guedea and Priscilla Diaz of Catania Worldwide.
Marty Head and John Woodall of Michigan Apple Committee.
Jim Roberts, CarrieAnn Arias, Craig Merrill, Aribel Aguirre-Beck, Donna Lynn Browne and Brian Galloway of Naturipe Farms.
Melissa Colella-Wang, Xin Wang and Steven Colella of Orto Foods
The team from the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.
Brian McGillivray and Brady Jones of AGQ Labs.
Tammy Franzoy, Sally Woodard, Tyler Franzoy and Chris Franzoy of Young Guns Hatch Valley Chile.
Tom Botelho, Chris Drew and Jesse Lopez of Ocean Mist Farms.
Matt Menner of Uber Freight with Kevin Brooks of Procurant.
Hampton Farms was represented by David Myers, Karolina Sokolska, Pierre Boucha, Marylou Ureta, Peter Jessup, Ben Fueston and Sue Elton.
At the Wholly Guacamole booth were Eric Gudgel, Troy Ross and John Perdoch.
Marc Garibaldi of RedLine Solutions explains the company’s services to Frances Quintana of Delta Cargo.
Heather Schneider of Northern Plains Potato Growers Association serves potato 'ice cream' to Russell Green of Eagle Protect PBC.
Grant Campbell, Dustin Clyde, Tiffany Rivera, Ryan Perkins, Scott Clubine and Robert Munoz of Four Star Sales.
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