Enhanced Potandon Produce Website Module Focuses On The Needs Of Retailers

March 12, 2014 Potandon Produce L.L.C.

On Friday, March 7th, Potandon Produce published a new module on its website www.potandon.com that is focused on bringing more value for trade customers and retailers.  On the home page, a new tab was added entitled Trade which opens up several key areas that are being populated with a host of current and relevant resources.

United Fresh To Honor Outstanding Women In The Produce Industry

United Fresh Produce Association is now accepting nominations to help select an honoree to speak at the annual Reception Honoring Women in Produce, Thursday, June 12 at the United Fresh 2014 convention in Chicago. Each year, United Fresh recognizes the contributions of all women working in the produce industry and honors one outstanding female industry leader at this reception.

Technology Gives Certainty To Seafood Purchases

Like many other fish dealers, Red’s Best is teeming with pallets of shiny succulent seafood, fresh haddock and hake, boxes of clams, and more exotic catches, with trails of crushed ice leading from bin to packing crate. But the real prize of Red’s operation at Boston Fish Pier is in a side room, where the company’s salesmen work from computers to market locally caught seafood to high-end wholesalers who sell to restaurants around the country.

Loblaws First To Offer New Responsibly-Farmed Certified Atlantic Salmon

Grocery giant Loblaws will be the first retailer in North America to sell a new type of responsibly-farmed salmon, an offering it hopes will differentiate itself amid intense competition from its grocery rivals.

Global Aquaculture Alliance Spearheads Case Study On Early Mortality Syndrome

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) is spearheading a case study to identify the shrimp-farming practices that prevent the manifestation of early mortality syndrome (EMS), also known as acute hepatopancreatic necrosis, the organization announced in early March. The case study will act as a foundation for recommendations to the aquaculture community for better shrimp-farming practices.