Romaine Crisis Creates Anxiety
For Local Farmers, But False Claims
About Food Safety Hurt The Industry…
UC Researcher Trevor Suslow
Lays Down The Facts
Very often the produce industry can be its own worst enemy. Because the crop is perishable and few growers are national or global producers, there is a constant desire to differentiate various growing regions. Mostly this just results in marketing of questionable value where some region, typically with inadequate funds, tries to differentiate itself when […]
Campbell’s Learns Lesson About Fresh Produce The Hard Way
Virtually nobody in the produce industry understood why Campbell Soup Company paid $1.55 billion for a carrot company back in 2012. After all, Campbell’s had been in the produce and fresh food space before, owning a mushroom company and Marie’s refrigerated salad dressings. Now Campbell CEO Denise Morrison, who orchestrated the acquisition and the move […]
2018 London Produce Show’s
Thought-Leader Breakfast
Features All-Star Cast
Of Industry Luminaries
It was a half-decade ago when PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine joined hands with the Fresh Produce Consortium, the produce trade association of the United Kingdom, to create a new industry institution: The London Produce Show and Conference. Combining specialized workshops, regional tours, networking opportunities, chef demos, media programs, student programs, etc. — it has become a […]
PBH’s Goal To Double Produce Consumption: Admirable, Possibly Achievable If A Well-studied, Controlled Plan And Long-term Approach Are Initiated
Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak, President and CEO of the Produce for Better Health Foundation, is a terrific person and inspiring leader. We’ve been fortunate to have her speak as a panelist at last year’s Ideation Fresh Foodservice Forum, which is annually co-located with The New York Produce Show and Conference and is dedicated to helping the foodservice […]
Dole Whip Is A Disney Classic…
Put It On A Donut You Have A Sensation!
How Do We Get Such Excitement Over Fresh Fruit And Veg?
In the produce industry, we would like to believe that consumers want to eat in a more unprocessed and healthy way. But there is a lot of evidence to the contrary. You can’t extrapolate from individual anecdotes and claim it is a study, but here is what happened when Disney brought the Dole Whip Donut […]
European Regulators Aim To Help The Little Guy By Following UK Model
While, Back In The US, Target, Walmart And Amazon Act Out… Only Better
Business Models Can Empower Producers
In Europe, there is a proposal afoot to restrict “unfair trade practices” by large retailers in order to protect suppliers. The Financial Times wrote about the issue here: Brussels is proposing a crackdown on powerful food buyers that force predatory terms on small suppliers, in a move to protect producers that has alarmed some large […]
Fresh Del Monte And Mann Packing – A Potent Combination Of Vast Innovation And Experience
With relentless pressure on margins in all commodity produce driven by the ever-increasing power of large buyers, the necessity of innovation has never been greater. Fresh Del Monte has invested in innovation, whether varietal — its Del Monte Gold Pineapple was the single greatest leverage tool in the produce industry for a while — or structural […]
The Present Of A Holiday Song That Begins In A Grocery Store
We were driving home from college for the holidays when a song came on the radio. We had spent a fair amount of time in grocery stores as the family had owned some in New Jersey and Puerto Rico, so maybe that is why it resonated. Though it hit #2 as Adult Contemporary Song in […]
Ideation Fresh Foodservice Forum Headliner Andrew Freeman Talks About Impossible Burgers, Instagrammability And Innovation
Andrew Freeman Founder af&co San Francisco, California Andrew Freeman is the founder of af&co., the celebrated hospitality and restaurant consulting and marketing firm based in San Francisco. Freeman — who says he was “born with a fork in my mouth” — has been named one of the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales and […]
Foodservice Forum At New York Produce Show Puts Produce First On Restaurant Menus
We already unveiled the schedule and faculty for the Foundational Excellence program here; the Global Trade Symposium here, the Perishable Pundit’s Thought-Leader Panel here, and the Micro-sessions here. We are now pleased to announce this year’s iteration of the Ideation Fresh Foodservice Forum: Punching Up Produce Profitability Bottom-line strategies for maneuvering prickly issues Thursday, December […]
