Pundit’s Mailbag — CCOF Speaks Out
On ‘Spiked’ Organic Fertilizer
Our pieces, ‘ Spiked’ Organic Fertilizer Raises Consumer Doubts About Organic Definition, Pundit’s Mailbag — Organic Industry’s ‘Situational’ Standard and Pundit’s Mailbag — As ‘Spiked’ Organic Fertilizer Investigation Widens, Potential Grows For Weaker Consumer Confidence In All Fresh Produce, brought this response from California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF): Thank you for your recent coverage of […]
Tesco Comes Clean: “Less Loyalty
In American Market”
We really should give out a lot of hat tips because Pundit readers from around the world — from top London investment bankers to California farmers to industry members on vacation in Anguilla and at work in their wholesale and retail operations, plus industry friends in South Africa and Australia — sent us copies of […]
‘Professor’ Bruce Knobeloch
Is Bullish On Industry Opportunities
This year’s United Fresh/Cornell University Produce Executive Development Program is coming up in March and there is a new element to the program. Since its founding, the program has provided an unusual combination of a sort of compressed MBA curriculum, taught within a prism of the realities of the fresh produce industry. The Pundit was […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — As ‘Spiked’ Organic Fertilizer Investigation Widens, Potential Grows For Weaker Consumer Confidence In All Fresh Produce
Thanks for your insightful articles, including ‘ Spiked’ Organic Fertilizer Raises Consumer Doubts About Organic Definition and Pundit’s Mailbag — Organic Industry’s ‘Situational’ Standard. This is more than just a quirky organic produce issue. While it remains a tiny percentage of overall production and sales, organic produce gets top billing with the media these days. […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — How About Subsidy Money For GTIN Conversion?
We have run many pieces on traceability and most recently ran two articles based on a letter that Greg Fritz, President of Cleveland, Ohio-based Produce Packaging, Inc. sent to United Fresh Produce Association regarding the Produce Traceability Initiative and the response from United, PMA and CPMA to that letter. The two pieces — the first […]
Perishable Thoughts — The Secret To Success
Business is tough for many… indeed many individuals have it tough right now. There is a tendency to think that what one needs is a brilliant idea to burst through the malaise and come out a winner on the other end. Then one thinks about Thomas Edison and his famous quote regarding the nature of […]
Lessons From The Peanut Salmonella Outbreak: Audit System Broken
Of all the millions of words that have been written and broadcast regarding the Peanut Corporation of America and the salmonella outbreak with which it is associated, the most utterly astounding were spoken by James Munyon, President of AIB International, and recorded for posterity in a news story written by Andrew Martin and published in […]
Perishable Thoughts —
Wisdom Begins In Wonder
Scott Danner, Chief Operating Officer of Kansas City, Kansas-based Liberty Fruit Co., is a frequent contributor to the Pundit, having sent many items our way, including these: Pundit’s Mailbag — Traceability Precision Perishable Thoughts — Resolve To Succeed Perishable Thoughts — What is Leadership? Perishable Thoughts Actions Speak Louder Than Words Now he sends a […]
Fresh & Easy In A Town Near You
We’ve written extensively about Tesco’s journey to America as fresh & Easy. Now, just by chance, we almost simultaneously received a request from both a big retailer and a large supplier for a list of Fresh & Easy locations. The information is publicly available through press releases, a map on the Fresh & Easy website […]
Mike Duke, Wal-Mart’s Leader,
Recommits To Saving People Money
Wal-Mart’s new CEO is making some tough decisions. He sent out this memo to associates at headquarters: To: All Home Office Associates From: Mike Duke, president and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Date: February 10, 2009 RE: Organizational Changes Dear Home Office associates: As the new fiscal year begins, we find ourselves living in unprecedented times, […]
