SAN DIEGO -- Precut produce was the big topic at the annual convention of the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association here earlier this month, where industry leaders were decidedly split on the category's...
SAN DIEGO -- "A lot of companies are jumping into the [precut] arena without thinking it through. There is going to be a tremendous bloodbath coming up," warned Ernie Townsend, president, Dole Food Co., North America...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The seventh annual convention of the National Association of Fresh Produce Processors here will be held this year at Marriott's Desert Springs Resort, Palm Desert, Calif., March 27 to 30.The theme...
SAN DIEGO -- William Winston Deardorff Jr., a prominent third-generation produce grower and chairman of the California Strawberry Commission, died Feb. 13 after suffering a heart attack during the United Fresh Fruit...
ALBANY, Calif. -- When it comes to refrigerated display cases, most produce executives take what they can get.But at a newly remodeled unit of Andronico's Park and Shop, Fred Mooney, director of produce buying...
Bread is not only the staff of life, but could soon become the undisputed foundation for the in-store bakery.The continuing introduction of a huge array of crusty and dense, European-style breads is building sales...
Retailers using the California Table Grape Commission's new self-serve demo boxes experienced significant sales increases in 1993, according to sales data gathered during the first year of the program.The average...