Good Foods Expands Marketing Team With New Brand Manager

July 31, 2019 Good Foods, LLC

Good Foods, a better-for-you foods company, is pleased to announce the hire of Maria Nakasone as brand manager. With more than fifteen years of experience in brand and category management, Nakasone will bring added efficiency and creative perspective to the Good Foods team.

AgroFresh Vice President of R&D and Regulatory Joins USDA-Backed Advisory Council

July 31, 2019 AgroFresh

Dr. Ann Beaulieu, vice president of R&D and regulatory at AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., will lend her expertise to an advisory council focused on improving access to nutritious foods, reducing food waste, advancing production systems for better nutrition, and developing crops with high nutritional value.

USDA Announces Availability of Petition for Deregulation of GE Petunias

July 30, 2019 USDA APHIS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting public comment on a petition from Westhoff Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (Westhoff) seeking deregulation of a petunia variety genetically engineered (GE) to produce orange flowers. The petition will be available for public review and comment for 60 days.

A Look Into the World of Storing and Preparing Flower Bulbs

July 30, 2019 Royal Van Zanten

There are rules for the proper storage of flower bulbs. Joost Bakker of Van Zanten Flowerbulbs knows this like no other.

Partner Up for Petal It Forward on Oct. 23

Partnering with other groups, whether within or outside the floral industry, could give your Oct. 23 Petal It Forward event an extra power boost, say florists who’ve participated in the “random acts of kindness” flower giveaway. Now is the time to start making those connections.