Month: December 2015

As college seniors head home to celebrate the winter holidays, career aspirations are at top of mind for many students who are eager to land their first job. Ready Pac Foods has announced plans to develop a strategic partnership with Arizona State University. Ready Pac Foods will extend its existing internship program to students enrolled in the school, which will provide hands-on experience in the manufacturing, agribusiness, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. Students who participate can complete the internship during their graduating year. …

Omelet, the LA-based creative shop, today announced it has named a fruit. The company also created the branding, marketing, and helped it launch into northeast locations including BJs, Food Lion, Giant, Safeway, and Shop Rite, among others, in less than six months. The fruit, a new clementine brand called Clementeenies, is now bursting into the United States market by way of Morocco. Defined as “Easy to Peel, Easy to Love,” the product was birthed from Dandrea Produce, a family-owned business from New Jersey, in response to the current clementine market – which is flooded with fruit grown in drought-stricken California. …

Freska Produce International, LLC today announced that the company is expanding its Avocado reach with its purchase of California Avocado Packer, Harvest Time Produce, Inc., Oceanside CA.  Freska, already a global leader in Mangos, with this entry into the prestigious California Avocado program and its already existing Mexican avocado program will make it a true year round program. …