Surviving Coronavirus:
Baldor’s Trials, Tribulations and
Michael Muzyk’s Goal To Keep Everyone Working
The Pundit Grandfather, Harry Prevor, mentioned that his father, the Pundit Great Grandfather, Jacob Prevor — working off the Wallabout Produce Market in Brooklyn — on at least some occasions supplied the produce that was sold from a produce pushcart that was rented by Louis Balducci Sr., originally from Bari, Italy. It is safe to […]
Understanding Risk
Sir David Spiegelhalter is a British Statistician and the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He has studied the situation we are now in with regard to COVID-19: It’s always useful to remember that we’re all going to die sometime, and the rate at […]
What Made Frieda Caplan So Special
It was a bittersweet pleasure when, upon the passing of Frieda Rapoport Caplan, we were able to write a piece, Frieda Caplan: So Good At Lifting Us Up. Among the many letters we received was one from one of Frieda’s longest standing industry contacts: Great article on Frieda and also appreciated the reprint of her […]
Frieda Caplan: So Good At Lifting Us Up
Every year since the invention of the Internet and common e-mail programs, the Pundit has received sweet emails from Frieda Caplan on his birthday and anniversary. The Pundit children have received the same since the year they were born. This does not count the substantive e-mails about industry matters. When she would write to the […]
GET READY FOR SOME CONTROVERSY!
John Pandol And Jim Prevor Conduct
No-Holds-Barred Discussion At Global Trade Symposium
To get a little insight into how this might go, we asked Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor, Mira Slott, to find out more: At Global Grape Summit, John Pandol Speaks On Challenges Of Grape Multiplicity And Hand-harvesting In Age Of Robotics Pundit’s Mailbag — Univeg, Ready Pac, Sunkist And The Lord Mayor Of Dublin […]
Using Wine Studies To Predict Produce Demand Based On Peer Reviews, Expert Reviews And Local/National Preferences
How do consumers come to value different products.? It is a question the produce industry doesn’t ask often enough. All too often producers produce what they know how to produce or want to produce, rather than producing what consumers actually want. In politics, it has become obvious that the ability of politicians to communicate directly […]
Fresh With 2019 Data, Euromonitor Analyst Reveals Top Trends In The U.S. Fresh Produce Market At Global Trade Symposium
Sometimes what you need to succeed is just some good data. We were excited when Euromonitor told us they had some high quality data to share, so we asked Gill McShane, Contributing Editor for Pundit sister publication ProduceBusinessUK.com to get a “sneak preview” of the presentation: Simon Gunzburg Research Analyst Euromonitor International Chicago, Illinois Q: At […]
EXCLUSIVELY AT GLOBAL TRADE SYMPOSIUM:
Global Business Executive, Catherine Powell, Who Most Recently Oversaw Disneyland, Walt Disney World And Disneyland Paris, Shares Her Unique Life And Corporate Experiences Along Her Global Leadership Journey
Business people tend to spend a lot of time on incremental change. It is progress, but achingly slow. Very often the big wins come from seeing things in a totally different light. When we learned that Catherine Powell had left Disney, we knew that if we could get her to join us at The Global […]
St. Joe’s John Stanton Challenges Mango Industry To Promote More And Educate Gen Z’s And The Millennials
When we launched the first New York Produce Show and Conference back in 2010, one of the first calls we made was to Professor John Stanton at Saint Joseph’s University to see if we could get him and the school involved in the show. He was very generous, and one of the early “sneak preview” […]
Private Label Pros And Cons:
As US Retailers Look To UK Example,
There Are Many Caveats To Consider…
Find Out More At Global Trade Symposium
We often like to have speakers who have just vacated important positions. If they are still in the fray, they are often close-mouthed. If they have been out of position long, their information often gets dated, and quickly. So, when he heard Jacqui Green left her position as CEO of Berry Gardens, we wanted to […]
