Retail 'Thought Leaders' Panel Announced For The New York Produce Show And Conference
When we announced the establishment of collaboration between the Eastern Produce Council and PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine to establish a new industry event, The New York Produce Show and Conference, we believed it would meet an important industry need: “New York City is the epicenter of the region that buys more fresh produce than any location […]
More On PMA Foodservice…Everyone Is In Favor Of Better Flavor But Is ‘Local’ A Solution Or An Ideology?
The program highlight of this year’s PMA Foodservice Conference was the first two sessions, in which a discussion of the Foodservice 2020 Initiative with its goal to double the use of fresh produce in foodservice by 2020 neatly flowed into a second session focused on local. The 2020 session, moderated by PMA President and CEO, […]
Time To Think About Tip Murphy, Golf And Tiger Woods
This is golf tournament time in the industry. There is still time to sign up for the Tip Murphy Memorial Golf Tournament here. So it might also make sense to think a bit about Tiger Woods. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece titled, The Unsettling Sight of a Tiger Tamed, that it subtitled: Woods’s […]
Is PMA’s Foodservice-Conference Success A Sign Of The Economy Turning Around Or A Sign Of Shippers Looking For Alternatives From Their Primary Channels?
PMA sent out information highlighting a true triumph at its largest-ever PMA Foodservice Conference: Foodservice conference features many firsts, notables Newark, Del. — Produce Marketing Association’s (PMA) 2010 Foodservice Conference & Exposition held July 30-Aug. 1 in Monterey, California, USA, featured many notable milestones, including: • Record attendance: This year’s conference in Monterey, California, USA, […]
Remembering Jack Pandol
Growing up in the produce industry, we had the opportunity to meet many giants, and Jack Pandol was one of the most important and memorable. The Prevor and Pandol families overlapped in many ways. In Chile we shared a shipper… us handling the east coast and Pandol the west. In Europe, Robert Zwartkruis, for many […]
The Professor And The Entrepreneur: Alan S. Blinder vs Jim Prevor On The Nature Of Job Creation
Alan S. Blinder is a professor at Princeton and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. His opinion influences many, and he is a highly intelligent man, but he lacks any real understanding of what moves entrepreneurs and what promotes entrepreneurialism. So when he wrote a column for The Wall Street Journal, we […]
Did LeBron James Offer A Lesson To Michelle Obama On How We Should Approach Food Deserts?
We wrote an article about LeBron James. No Sports Illustrated didn’t want it — but it was written for The Weekly Standard, a national political magazine based in Washington, DC. It was also picked up for the Beltway Confidential column of The Washington Examiner. Our thesis was that LeBron James brought to the fore the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Are Public Sector Food Safety Inspectors More Apt To Cut Corners Than Private Inspectors?
Our piece, Pundit’s Mailbag — The Ethics of Employees in Private Enterprise Versus Public Institutions, brought this note: 1. While FDA and FSIS have no official authority to inspect foreign establishments, some of the import regulations require that a foreign manufacturer’s safety system be substantially equivalent to those in the US. And foreign countries will […]
Joe Nucci, Tip Murphy And Opportunities To Play Golf, Raise Money And Honor Two Good Men
It is summer and in many parts of the country that is golf time. It is also a time that PMA’s Foundation for Industry Talent uses golf as a mechanism to raise funds to do good works in honor of two respected and much missed individuals who were active in PMA and the broader industry. […]
Does New Personnel For Wal-Mart Mean New Hope For The Vendor Community?
We have written a great deal about Wal-Mart, and now the whole spirit of the company has seemed to pivot. Why is all this happening? Simple: John Fleming, who had been the merchandising chief at Target before he became merchandising chief at Wal-Mart, is leaving Wal-Mart in August, and Eduardo Castro-Wright has been removed as […]
