Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry — Information Resources’ Thom Blischok
Our piece, Pundit’s Pulse Of the Industry — Willard Bishop Consulting’s Bill Bishop included this quote from Bill Bishop: “…for some period of time AC Nielsen was out in front by itself in category management including perishables. Now, there is a strong initiative on the part of IRI to win a piece of that business.” […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — ‘Unworkable’ Immigration Plan
Our piece Compromise Reached On Immigration Reform, But The Battle Is Far From Over brought these comments from an experienced industry hand: “It ain’t going to work”. Require all illegal immigrants to return home to ‘touch base’, pay $5 grand, and then fill out the paperwork for re-entry to the USA? Who thinks of this […]
United Fresh Will Develop Microbiological Testing Database
After Charles Sweat, COO of Natural Selection Foods, appeared at United’s FreshTech conference talking about the company’s testing program, we ran a piece that included this call: This points to a very important task that the new Center for Produce Safety should undertake. With so many companies now testing both raw material and finished product, […]
Unfair CNN Report Showed One Clear Winner: Irradiation
Something called the CNN Special Investigations Unit presented Danger: Poisoned Food with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The subtitle: What you eat could make you sick. No publicity of this sort is good for the industry but, as these things go, there was at least an attempt to present several sides to the story. This included camera […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry — Willard Bishop Consulting’s Bill Bishop
Earlier this year Willard Bishop, well known as a food industry consultancy, announced a management transition in which Bill Bishop was giving up day-to-day managerial tasks to focus on providing strategic guidance and thought leadership for the firm’s clients and the industry at large. Bill Bishop has really been an institution in the industry, and […]
Ocean Spray Trial Will Shed Light On Business Practices
The May 2007 edition of PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine, a sister publication of the Pundit, featured an important piece entitled Special Report: Ocean Spray Sued By Longtime Associates, which told an important and fascinating story. Some of the story is about Jim and Theresa Nolan and how they were treated by Ocean Spray. Some has to […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Green Acres Is The Place To Be?!?
Our piece pesticide Spraying Gets More Attention brought much response from growers including this note: It is all about money. Here in Florida the developers own the politicians and as we know the politicians are greedy for money and power. In our area of Florida farming has been a way of life since America was […]
FDA Indicates Guarded Willingness To Regulate Produce
Several articles, including this one entitled FDA Stymied In Push to Boost Safety of Produce, which ran in The Wall Street Journal, claim that February of this year, the FDA proposed a substantial regulatory regime for fresh produce, but higher-ups at the Department of Health and Human Services rejected the plan: The Food and Drug […]
Horsfall To Head California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement
After an exhaustive search Scott Horsfall has been named CEO of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement: SACRAMENTO, May 17, 2008 — Former California Grown CEO Scott Horsfall has been named to head the new Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, LGMA Chairman Joe Pezzini announced to the group’s board of directors on Friday, May 11th. Horsfall […]
Calls On Wal-Mart Point To More Vendor Negativity
Our piece Wal-Mart’s Changing Treatment Of Suppliers brought forth a large number of phone calls from executives at the highest level of sell side organizations. If Wal-Mart executives care about Wal-Mart’s image in the supply community, the news was pretty bad. The distinction between Wal-Mart’s “defenders” and those who were on the “attack” basically came […]
