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Sage Fruit is pleased to announce the release of an exciting new product line that will feature Marvel characters.
Beginning July 2014, Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man cherry packaging will be available at retailers nationwide. This will include Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man pouch bags, as well as Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man point of purchase display bins. Based on recent Q Score data, Spider-Man is the #1 action-based character...
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Today's Headlines
- NatureSweet announces return of Homegrown Tomato & Chef’s Challenge
- T&A introduces George T's Special Colossal Romaine Heart
- Driscoll's-Wegmans partnership sponsors Strawberry Days fundraiser
- Lantao opens new fruit import distribution facility
- Southwest Michigan peach deal begins
- Joint food-safety effort launched by U.S. and Mexico
- Banner pomegranate season projected
- PMA Foodservice show reaches new heights
What's New
This year, Delano, CA-based Pandol Bros. Inc. will offer its premium table grape varieties in retail packaging that identifies the variety by name, according to John Pandol, a director of the corporation.
Other grape varieties from Pandol Bros. will continue to be identified by color, such as red seedless or green seedless, in “a generic bag,” Pandol told The...
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From early season Flames to late season Autumn Kings, Jasmine Vineyards Inc. in Delano, CA, offers a broad assortment of fresh grape varieties, grown in the Delano district.
“Thus far, we just started with Flames. It’s the only variety I am currently doing,” said salesman Brian Crettol in an interview with The Produce News July 9. “We are going to start some...
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Chuck Sinks, senior produce specialist at Associated Wholesale Grocers in Kansas City, KS, married Caitlin Prentiss June 28 in St. Charles, IL, just west of Chicago. Sinks, 28, started working for AWG in August 2013; his wife is a third grade school teacher. The couple, who live in Overland Park, KS,...
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It was a record-breaking year at Produce Marketing Association’s 33rd annual Foodservice Conference, including the unseasonably warm temperatures in Monterey, CA, which soared into the high 80s.
The conference by the numbers:
1,821 attendees (record) from North and South America
203 operators (record)
466...
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California growers expect large crop of quality grapes, despite challenges
It is not easy being a farmer anywhere, and it has certainly not been easy in recent years to be a grape grower in California in t...
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PMA Foodservice a wild success
Representing Nash Produce at the PMA Foodservice Expo were Laura Kornegay and Sarah Joyner.
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