Insights On Table Grape Consumption Tee Up Expert Panel Discussion At Global Grape Summit
Kantar is always useful in its gathering of data and insightful in its analysis. We’ve been fortunate to have Kantar share its insights at many of our events including in workshops we wrote about here: 10 DATA-RICH INGREDIENTS TO OMNI-CHANNEL SUCCESS — Kantar Worldpanel To Highlight Fresh Data At Amsterdam Produce Summit Kantar Worldpanel Execs Present […]
Omni-Channel Purchasing May Change Paradigm Of What Defines “Quality” – Find Out More At Global Grape Summit And London Produce Show
Omni-Channel retailing is sweeping the globe. Indeed, it so important to the produce trade that we created an entire conference dedicated specifically to exploring the junction between Omni-Channel and fresh produce. You can review some of the topics we discussed in these pieces: ONLY IN AMSTERDAM… Walmart’s Senior Director Of Omnichannel Rand Waddoups To Talk […]
Be In The Room Where it Happens…
Inaugural Global Grape Summit
Co-Located With London Produce Show
Gathers The Best And The Brightest
Building the Grape Industry Of Tomorrow
The success of the produce industry — whether judged in financial terms, or the ability to increase consumption, or the sustaining of the agricultural economy with the environmental and social benefits that flow from all this — hinges on individual crops being successful. This is especially true of the largest and most important crops, such […]
SUN WORLD DIVESTS ITS FARMING…
Focuses Resources on Genetics, Branding and Licensing
A SEA CHANGE IN THE NATURE OF THE PRODUCE INDUSTRY…
Sun Pacific Affiliate To Acquire Growing Operation
The winds of change are in the air for the produce industry. Grocery giants such as Danone and the Campbell Soup Company are divesting their produce interests. Non-US interests now own, control or have substantial stakes in every banana giant. Today, there is breaking news out from Sun World, a company that has long stood in the forefront of innovation […]
The Words That Can't Be Spoken:
Who Is Buying Product Not In Compliance With Leafy Greens Metrics?
Where Are The Industry Leaders Stepping Up To Solve This Problem?
Tightening Water Metrics Is Great — But Not Enough.
Eliminating The 1% From Commercial Trade Is A Financial And Moral Obligation
During the most recent Romaine food-safety-related outbreak, we authored a piece for The Wall Street Journal, titled Lettuce Try Not to Panic. The point of the piece was two-fold: To explain that the risk is really infinitesimal, and to point out that the government, by issuing recommendations rather than disclosing the risk, is defining a […]
Was Kraft Heinz Saving Money Or Eating The Seed Corn?
For a while, zero-based budgeting — a business management tool pioneered a half-century ago by Pete Pyhrr — was hot; then it was not, and then it came roaring back with a focus on the food industry. The Wall Street Journal highlighted this history back in 2015 with a profile: Meet the Father of zero-based […]
Counting Our Blessings
For this Pundit, 2018 was a year of extraordinary loss. The Pundit Momma passed away and, although the Pundit Poppa had passed years earlier, they were so close — dating since high school — that in some strange way, it didn’t feel like he was gone until both were gone. It is clear that in […]
The Perishable Pundit, The Wall Street Journal, Romaine Lettuce And The Nature Of Risk
The Pundit had an opportunity to put the Romaine Crisis in perspective and to challenge a flawed understanding of risk by penning an essay for the Wall Street Journal. Many saw it in the physical newspaper, and it is available for those who have subscriptions on the Wall Street Journal website right here Through special arrangement with the Wall Street […]
Cornell and Washington State University Team Up On New Research
Interactive Presentation At New York Produce Show Gives Industry Buyers A Chance To Weigh In On What They Prefer
Cornell’s Brad Rickard is veteran of The New York Produce show and conference and our overseas events. He is intellectually curious and always trying to see how research can clarify our understanding of a wide array of issues. We’ve chronicled professor Rickard’s intellectual journey in pieces such as these: Cornell Professor Brad Rickard Returns To […]
Getting Down And Dirty On Food Waste:
UConn Professor John Bovey Unveils New Research At New York Produce Show And Conference
John Bovay has been wowing audiences at The New York Produce Show and Conference for the past two years. He always has a way of researching the hot topics of the day – this year it is Food Waste. We asked Pundit Investigator and Special Projects Editor Mira Slott to find out more: John Bovay […]
