New CEO for The Bouqs Company

June 22, 2020 Hunt Scanlon

Alejandro Bethlen brings over two decades of leadership and international experience in scaling global businesses for Fortune 100 companies including Amazon and Procter & Gamble to his new role.

Syngenta Appoints New Global Head of Flowers Business

June 22, 2020 Syngenta

Syngenta Flowers announces that Michael Kester will retire at the end of 2020 after 42 years at Syngenta. Mark Schermer is appointed as his successor as global head of Syngenta Flowers from September 1, 2020.

Facing High Costs, Lower Demand, Grafton Village Cheese Company Considers Consolidation

Grafton Village Cheese Company is looking at a plan to consolidate its manufacturing from two spaces into one, and hopes to sell the 29,000-square-foot cheesemaking production facility it built in Brattleboro in 2008.

NFL Player, Specialty Food Veteran Form Retail Partnership

Karlos Dansby, a former National Football League linebacker who played with several teams—and has not yet formally retired, although he last played in 2017—is planning to open two Dansby’s Foods locations in Birmingham this fall.

What’s Gotten into the Price of Cheese

The wholesale market for Cheddar is typically a mild one. But the vagaries of supply and demand during the pandemic have caused sharp swings in cheese prices, which rose to record highs this month — just weeks after plummeting to nearly 20-year lows.