A Special Announcement Regarding The Spouse/Companion Program At The New York Produce Show And Conference From Mrs. Pundit Herself
Please come and join the New York Produce Show’s Spouse/Companion Program high atop the Sheraton New York Hotel’s Duplex Penthouse Suite for breakfast and enjoy meeting new friends, make-up applications, chair massages and mini-manicures. Then hop on board our private luxurious (and heated!) tour bus to see the holiday lights and decorations of New York […]
Global Trade Symposium Keynote Speaker, Professor Tom Reardon, Will Discuss The Rapid Transformation, And Increasing Opportunities, Of Produce Markets In Emerging Countries
We launched The Global Trade Symposium, co-located with The New York Produce Show and Conference, with an announcement that The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady would Keynote the inaugural event. It was heady stuff, and we spent all year ruminating on who we could get this year who might provide a comparably broad grasp […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — A Closer Look At Immigration And How Visas Work
Our piece, Immigration, One Of The Hottest Post-Election Issues, Will Be Brought To the Floor Of The New York Produce Show and Conference, highlighted this upcoming industry discussion as perfectly timed for a new national debate on immigration. We found ourselves in a bit of a quandary in trying to understand what, if anything, would […]
Paramount Citrus And Sun Pacific Imbroglio Over Cuties Sheds Light On How Branding Works In The Produce Industry
When The Wall Street Journal ran a piece this past summer, titled The Big War Over a Small Fruit. It was that rare event — a produce story that broke through to the mainstream media: From a hillock in the San Joaquin Valley, Berne Evans III recently surveyed a citrus grove that stretches as far […]
Immigration, One Of The Hottest Post-Election Issues, Will Be Brought To The Floor Of The New York Produce Show And Conference
With the election behind us, many issues that were simply “too hot to handle” are going to come to the forefront. Immigration is likely to be one of these newly prominent issues. Indeed one interpretation of the election results is that the Republican party needs to boost its appeal to Latinos. Many assume that the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Booth Babes And The Disconnect With PMA’s Position On Women’s Careers
Our piece, PMA’s Fresh Summit Triumph And New Commitment To Educating Women, raised the interest of one of the trade’s more prominent women — in fact, the first woman to chair a national produce trade association, when in 2000 she chaired the International Fresh-cut Produce Association: I read your coverage of PMA’s events for women […]
Meet The Gastronomes — And Learn About Their Mission To Increase Produce Consumption — At The New York Produce Show And Conference
Our piece, Food “To Die For” May Do Just That… Seminal Study Encouraging The Eating Of Bitter Vegetables For Health To Be Unveiled At New York Produce Show And Conference, highlighted two truly fascinating presentations that are being given by Professor Morini at the upcoming edition of The New York Produce Show and Conference and […]
DECISIONS FOR ELECTION DAY: From California’s Proposition 37 (GMO Labeling) To The Presidential Election Coming Down To Maine’s Potato Growers
Editor’s Note: subsequent to the publication of this article, voters in California soundly defeated Proposition 37 and thus rejected the requirement to label most GMO products. President Obama was reelected with the help of Maine’s 2nd congressional district, which voted in his favor. The election is, of course, upon us. We live in a country […]
On-The-Ground Assessment Of Hurricane Sandy’s Aftermath By One Of NY-NJ’s Leading Retailers
As the Pundit has been jetting around Asia, our friends and family in the Northeast have been struggling with the aftermath of the storm. We work closely with Paul Kneeland, Vice President of Produce & Floral of Kings Food Markets and Chairman of the Conference Committee at the Eastern Produce Council, with whom we present The […]
From Anaheim To Singapore… Jetting Into The Future
I am eating fruit. A banana — StaReyna brand — a mandarin of some sort, a persimmon, an Asian pear and a plum — so if we still had 5-a-Day, I could say I did my bit in one sitting. I enjoy fruit, and when it is presented to me on bended knee by an austerely […]
