Month: September 2018

Internships can help employers address short-term staffing needs, and be a powerful recruiting tool – while also helping our industry to attract qualified new talent. Are you looking to develop or enhance your company’s internship program? All the challenges and opportunities of internship programs are addressed and unraveled in Center for Growing Talent’s (CGT) new turnkey internship toolkit, now available free to all fresh produce and floral industry members. …

Grimmway Farms today announced the appointment of Dana Culhane Brennan as Director of Corporate and Government Affairs. Brennan will oversee the development and implementation of policies involving local, state and government affairs and will function as the official spokesperson for Grimmway’s global operations. …

Rainier Fruit  announced the addition of its new Wholesome to the Core holiday marketing program, “Pears for Pairs.” The inaugural campaign, which launches in store in October, supports the company’s pear program, while contributing a portion of the proceeds of bulk pears and pear bags sales this holiday season to the ninth annual Hanes National Sock Drive, which has distributed more than 2.5 million pairs of socks to those living homeless across the United States. …

Managing carbon dioxide is one of the methods used globally by shippers to help ensure the utmost freshness of produce. In addition to monitoring carbon dioxide levels in real-time, this new version of the popular GO Real-Time Tracker also provides valuable features such as temperature, location and light sensing coupled with real-time actionable alerts. …

“We are very excited to join forces with RENE, one of Mexico’s outstanding fresh produce operators,” said Dennis Christou, Vice President of Marketing at Del Monte. “The Joint Venture with RENE will allow us to sell and market Round, Roma, Specialty, as well as Organic tomatoes on a year-round basis in the USA and Canada." …