When Walmart began to roll out supercenters across America, it had various special needs. It wanted product placed in RPCs and hoped to benefit from the brand
Daniel A Sumner is the Frank H. Buck, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, and
Back in 2014, Richard Marosi of the Los Angeles Times wrote a piece titled, Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables, that shook
The Kroger Company recently sent a letter to its vendors. The gist of the letter is that Kroger is adopting standard payment term of 90 days,
Very often the produce industry can be its own worst enemy. Because the crop is perishable and few growers are national or global producers, there
Virtually nobody in the produce industry understood why Campbell Soup Company paid $1.55 billion for a carrot company back in 2012. After all, Campbell’s had
It was a half-decade ago when PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine joined hands with the Fresh Produce Consortium, the produce trade association of the United Kingdom, to
Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak, President and CEO of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, is a terrific person and inspiring leader. We’ve been fortunate to have
In the produce industry, we would like to believe that consumers want to eat in a more unprocessed and healthy way. But there is a
In Europe, there is a proposal afoot to restrict “unfair trade practices” by large retailers in order to protect suppliers. The Financial Times wrote about
