The Science Of Product Messaging: How Unbiased Information On Pesticides, Fungicides, Herbicides, Organics, GMO And CRISPR Can Affect Consumer Buying Behavior. UGA’s Ben Campbell Unveils New Report At New York Produce Show
When Ben Campbell started out with The New York Produce Show and Conference, he was a professor at the University of Connecticut. During the event, Ben and his students participated in our University Interchange program, which provides a forum for university professors to share cutting-edge research with the trade and thus help fulfill their mission […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Tom Nassif And WGA Speak Out — Pundit Challenge: The Industry May Be Persuaded
But How Can We Be Persuasive?
Our piece, Preaching To The Choir: Shouldn’t The Industry Seek To Persuade Constituencies Who Have Other Priorities, brought much feedback, including this piece from an important industry leader: In his July 25th Perishable Pundit column, Jim Prevor misses the mark in his analysis of the produce industry’s approach to immigration reform, which he characterizes as unpersuasive. In particular, […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Western Growers Responds to ‘Preaching to the Choir’
Our piece, Preaching To The Choir: Shouldn’t The Industry Seek To Persuade Constituencies Who Have Other Priorities,brought much feedback including this piece from an important industry leader: In his July 25th Perishable Pundit column, Jim Prevor misses the mark in his analysis of the produce industry’s approach to immigration reform, which he characterizes as unpersuasive. […]
Preaching To The Choir:
Shouldn’t The Industry Seek To Persuade
Constituencies Who Have Other Priorities?
The produce industry has many articulate and knowledgeable advocates. Yet, it doesn’t seem we are being particularly effective in advancing our public policy objectives. Think about how many years the industry has been advocating a guest-worker program without effect – this is true under both Democrat and Republican administrations — and it goes back long […]
Animal Spirits Lift The Economy, But
Representative Katie Porter Seems Willing To Depress Them If It Riles Up Her Base
One of our problems politically is that our politicians — on both sides of the aisle — are often more interested in firing up their base and scoring political points than in actually trying to solve problems. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is a super smart and accomplished guy. Freshman Representative Katie Porter has a […]
How Does The Industry Change Retail And Foodservice Incentives?
To Boost Consumption We Have To Sell Our Best!
We Often Promote Our Cheapest!
Few issues so engage the produce industry as the drive to increase consumption. Whether from a moral fervor of looking to encourage healthy eating or from the practical business sense that it is hard to grow sales and profits unless consumption grows, the industry stands united on the desirability of boosting consumption. Yet, the industry […]
London Foodservice Forum Panelist, Reynolds Executive Development Chef Diane Camp Provides Insights On The Plant-based Movement And The Opportunities For Distributors To Convey Menu Ideas To Their Customers
Just as no man is an island, success in the foodservice end of the business depends powerfully on the operators interacting with their distributors. Produce shippers are particularly poor at selling to foodservice. They are used to retail, where items are just put out for sale, not foodservice, where the hardest part of the sale […]
Bill’s Founder Bill Collison Talks About Fresh, Farming And His Famous Namesake Restaurant Chain At London's Foodservice Forum
You can take the farmer out of the field but not the field out of the farmer. This is true, literally and figuratively, when describing Bill Collison. Collison, a grower by first profession, is the founder of Bill’s, a greengrocer that over the past two decades has evolved into a wildly popular 80-plus-unit casual dining […]
FutureFoodservice.com’s Simon Stenning Predicts UK’s Foodservice Industry As An Astounding Decade From Now; Highlights Role of Fresh Produce
Simon Stenning describes himself as a jack of all trades and master of them all. It’s an apt description, considering his colleagues call him one of the best crystal ball forecasters in the UK’s foodservice industry. Stenning will speak first at the 2019 London Produce Show’s Foodservice Forum, set for June 5 at the JW […]
Reynolds Organises Plant-based
Street-food-focused Restaurant Tour For London Produce Show
Attendees will visit HOP Vietnamese, Biff’s Jack Shack, Farmer J, Old Spitalfields Market and more on the bespoke tour hosted by foodservice expert Andy Weir from Reynolds. The London Produce Show and Conference 2019, taking place this week on June 5-7, 2019, will culminate with a series of insightful and unmissable industry tours that will […]
