Ahead Of The (New York) Times
Back when chemicals were the big food safety issue, Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS, ran a cover story on the issue, it wasn’t five months later that Time Magazine ran a similar story with a very similar cover. We did a little self-promotion with an ad that pointed out the value we delivered: Click on […]
Another Chapter Closes For The Nolan’s And Ocean Spray While A Scholarship Fund Opens Doors For Others
We have extensively chronicled the legal dispute, the issues of business ethics at stake and the moral courage shown by Jim and Theresa Nolan, as they and their company, The Nolan Network, sought justice in the courts in their dispute with Ocean Spray. Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS, stood up in this matter with two […]
How Will Success Be Measured For
Fresh For Ellen Social Media Campaign?
We’ve heard from Dan’l Mackey Almy many times here at the Pundit. We’ve sometimes included these communications in pieces such as these: Perishable Thoughts — Hope Obama Helps Country ‘Arise’ Pundit’s Mailbag — Profitable Participation So it was, of course, a pleasure that our piece, Plea For Ellen DeGeneres To Consider Produce In Her Sugar-Free […]
Big Ramifications For Industry As Florida Tomato Growers Exchange Agrees To Penny-A-Pound Program
We angered many in the Florida tomato industry when back in 2007 we ran a piece titled, Florida Tomato Growers Reject Penny-A-Pound Initiative At The Industry’s Peril. There were letters such as one we included in a piece titled, Pundit’s Mailbag — Defending The Florida Tomato Industry. And we certainly tried to point out some […]
Plea For Ellen DeGeneres To Consider Produce In Her Sugar-Free Diet
For those of you who don’t pay attention to these things, Ellen Degeneres, famed comedienne, film actress, voice of the animated Dory in Finding Nemo and host of the eponymously named Ellen, the Ellen Show and, currently, the Ellen Degeneres Show, has sworn off sugar. Ellen was already a vegan, motivated to become one mostly […]
More On Consumer Reports Analysis:
Is The Issue Safety or Quality?
Our piece, Trevor Suslow Of UC Davis Speaks Out: The Truth About Consumer Reports, Bacteria And Packaged Leafy Greens, was widely circulated. In fact, the American Council On Science and Health, which we wrote about here, picked up on the piece in its ACSH Morning Dispatch: Consumers Union: Go Back to Burgers Jim Prevor’s Perishable […]
Frieda’s Karen Caplan Launches A Blog
The Pundit was just a boy when the family business was negotiating with a lady in California to set ourselves up — we were in New York and she in Los Angeles — as a kind of forward-distribution and sales center for her then-amazingly exotic product line — things like fresh herbs! Alas the negotiations […]
Wal-Mart Reports Strong Earnings:
Is It Creating A Pricing Umbrella For Aldi?
We’ve written a lot about Wal-Mart, and recently, the series we’ve been running on procurement changes have made some think we were hostile to Wal-Mart. Among the pieces we’ve run recently: SPECIAL EDITION: Wal-Mart’s Global Food Sourcing Initiative Closes The Peterson Era And Threatens Sustainability Of Agricultural Base Flaws In Wal-Mart’s Produce-Procurement Thinking Wal-Mart’s Blind […]
As South African Grapefruit Enters The US Market, Who Will Step In To Build Year-Round Demand?
Andrew Southwood used to be the Vice President of Business Development at Fisher Capespan and then founded freshXpressions a organization that bills itself as providing “Management Solutions for Growth” — a sort of outsourced management concept to help companies with stretched management teams. Now he sends word that a new player is entering the US […]
‘Buy American’ and ‘Buy Local’ Requirements Confusing School Foodservice Buyers…Chilean Fresh Fruit Association Speaks Out
Elementary and secondary school foodservice programs are enormous purchasers of food and have enormous influence on the next generation of shoppers, so what goes on in school foodservice really matters. One group to recognize this priority and realize there is some confusion on what the rules and regulations require is the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association, […]
