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The Produce Reporter Week in Review – December 6, 2019
Pamela and Greg are coming to you from the Blue Book Services headquarters in Carol Stream, IL, with this edition...
Rouses goes for World’s Largest Avocado display
The World’s Largest Avocado display being set up at Rouses Market BB #:153701 in New Orleans comes with some of...
APEAM counters bloody cartel story from LA Times
The Los Angeles Times ran the story, “Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry,” November 24, and...
WP Produce debuts refreshed Desbry avocado logo, worker welfare program
PRESS RELEASE: Miami, FL (November 5, 2019) — WP Produce BB #:143203, a family-owned, grower-packer-shipper of Desbry® tropical produce has...
Crimes against guacamole, Part 2
I promise, I make good guacamole. My family loves it. My friends love it. So, why do I keep doing...
California projects 60 percent larger avocado crop for 2020
ANAHEIM, CA – California avocado growers project a big rebound in 2020. Jan DeLyser, vice president of marketing for the...
Hazel Technologies partners with WP Produce to extend avocado shelf life
PRESS RELEASE CHICAGO (October 16, 2019) – Hazel Technologies Inc., a company developing new, USDA-funded post-harvest technologies to extend shelf-life...
Maui family grows world record avocado
Hawaiian avocados have made news the past few years with some enormous fruit, and now a local family can claim...
Mexican avocados: En route to 2 million tons of exports by 2030
Many times called “green gold,” Mexican avocados are one of the most appreciated agricultural products in the world allowing Mexico...
Colombian avocado exports continue to rise
Avocados continue to be one of Colombia’s flagship export products outside of the mining industry. El Dinero reports, through information...
Kroger to offer Apeel avocados nationwide
CINCINNATI AND SANTA BARBARA, CA (September 18, 2019) — The Kroger Co. BB #:100073, America’s largest grocery retailer, and Apeel...
Greenyard USA/Seald Sweet to offer year-round avocados via Valvilla Produce
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17th, 2019 Vero Beach, FL —Greenyard USA/Seald Sweet BB #:161579 has announced a long-term strategic partnership...
Chilean Avocados Importers Association launches digital calendars
PRESS RELEASE: San Carlos California – Avocados are well known for being a staple in many American households, but now avocado...
Make way for loaf-size avocados
Somebody tell Trader Joe’s that Teeny Tiny Avocados are out and Ridiculous Huge fruit is in. A few years ago,...
Apeel Sciences unveils supplier network
PRESS RELEASE SANTA BARBARA, CA (August 15, 2019) — Apeel Sciences, BB #:345580 one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative...
Avocado growth in Latin America
As avocados grow in popularity across the world, several Latin American countries continue to rise in the production and/or exporting...
Beware the guacamole imposters
With a short California avocado crop, Mexico’s Flor Loca behaving, well…loca…, the wholesale avocado market is high. So high trucks...
Avocados: Turning people to crime
“The whole country seems to be in love with the avocado,” says Brian Niccol, CEO of the Chipotle fast-food chain....
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