Year: 2024

McLane Company Food Safety Team Adds Top Talent and Fuels Innovation in 2024

March 5, 2024 McLane Company

McLane recently announced the appointment of Terry Levee as its new senior director of food safety and quality assurance. Levee brings over 35 years of expertise in food safety, quality assurance and regulatory affairs. His extensive background, including his most recent role as senior director of food safety and regulatory compliance for Giant Eagle, well-positions him to lead McLane’s food safety team and support the company’s newest retail foodservice endeavor, McLane Fresh, and its well-established restaurant distribution business. …

Golbon Welcomes Cottonwood Distribution

March 5, 2024 Golbon

Golbon, a leading national foodservice buying and marketing group supporting the success of independent distributors, welcomes another new Member, Cottonwood Distribution. …

South Africa’s Hortgro Launches Inaugural Consumer Promotion in the USA

March 5, 2024 Hortgro

Starting from the ground up, Hortgro is greatly utilizing Facebook and Instagram to organically gather contacts and promotion participants while also sharing information about South African plums to new audiences. In addition, the company will be sampling at select Costco locations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia with in-store signage to promote the sweetness of the product and the promotion. …

In Celebration of 125 Years in Bananas, Dole Announces First Inductees of its Banana Hall of Fame

March 5, 2024 Dole plc

Dole Food Company is honoring a beloved New Orleans restaurant, a pioneering Pennsylvania city and a 7-foot banana mascot for helping to make the banana into the world’s most popular fruit and a global icon. …

Chilean Grape Committee Projects 35 million Boxes for the U.S.

March 5, 2024 Frutas de Chile

March 4, 2024. The Chilean grape industry has shipped 20 million boxes globally through Week 8, and the Chilean Grape Committee estimates they will end the season very close to 62 million boxes.  The U.S. will receive roughly 57% of the total volume…around 35 million boxes.  …