When Elmo Is Crying –
Will The Sesame Street Brand Be Used To Market Sub-standard Product?
Is The Legal Minimum An Acceptable Food Safety Standard When Promoting To Children?
Our piece, IMAGINE-NATION: Will The First Lady’s Sesame Street Campaign Reduce Produce Consumption, brought lots of calls and comments. They were universally unhappy about the program and universally saw no upside for themselves in going on the record. One former chairman of one of the national produce associations sent this note: I’ve had a few […]
When A Deal is Not A Deal:
Immigration Reform Likely To Stall Longer Because Republicans Question If The President Will Execute Any Compromise
United recently sent out an announcement that it is still trying to prod immigration reform along: United Fresh this week joined forces with 636 business organizations representing multiple sectors to send a letter to Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner to request House Republicans, who are the majority in the House of Representatives, […]
Fresh Produce Marketing: The Real Deal
The produce industry has a lot of trouble investing in marketing. It is hard to get the margins in produce that support the kind of marketing campaigns that consumer packaged goods companies are able to sustain. One woman though, has a cause of her own, global marketing guru Lisa Cork, an American girl who adopted […]
Industry Veteran Dawn Gray To Speak About Transparency At Global Trade Symposium
Last year she wowed the audience with a presentation we previewed in a piece titled Industry Veteran Dawn Gray To Discuss The Concept Of “Glocal” At Global Trade Symposium. Now she proposes we do business, well, naked. We asked Keith Loria, a well-dressed Contributing Editor at Pundit sister publication PRODUCE BUSINESS to give us a […]
Dr. Roberta Cook Will Talk About Increasing Produce Consumption At Global Trade Symposium
When Roberta Cook addressed the inaugural assemblage of The Global Trade Symposium, co-located with The New York Produce Show and Conference we titled the preview piece on her talk: Riding The Roller Coaster: Roberta Cook Of UC Davis Explains How Economic Fluctuations Create Marketing Opportunities. Now, in a sense, with a new talk titled Global […]
Facing The Global Challenge
In three decades of hard work we never worked harder than the ten days we spent in South Africa when Danie Kievet arranged our schedule. He thought the Pundit should earn his keep so we were down in the hotel lobby at 5:00 AM each morning and after a whirlwind of speeches, meetings, tours, site […]
New York Delegates To Receive An Education In Ethnobotany From Eminent Italian Professor
Last year at the New York Produce Show and Conference, we invited students and professors from the University of Pollenzo, in Italy, to join our student exchange program. Their input was fascinating and of course, we’ve invited them back for a second bite. This time around, Andrea Pieroni will address our audience with a […]
Capespan International's Hazel Akehurst Talks About UK Retailing At The Global Trade Symposium
Each year we invite a special delegate from outside the US to participate in The New York Produce Show and Conference. In 2010 it was Johan van Deventer from the Freshmark subsidiary of the Shoprite Group in South Africa. You can see the piece we wrote about his visit here. In 2011 we had Peter Pokorney from Australia. Last year, our special […]
Andrew Sharp To Address Global Trade Symposium On The Moral Dilemma Of Food Security
One of the reasons we count ourselves lucky is that in our line of work we have the opportunity to meet so many people who are passionate and engaged. Andrew Sharp is exemplary in these qualities. So when he offered to come to America and speak about sustainability and food security we counted ourselves lucky. […]
Former Sobeys And Wal-Mart Executive Wayne McKnight Will Speak About The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Procurement Operations.
Lots of people have jobs of all sorts, but only a select few do their work and live their lives in such a way that they draw insight from all they do. One of these rarities is Wayne McKnight. Sure he has had important jobs, as when he was at Sobey in Canada and he […]
