Park, GA – Generation Farms has selected Chris Hill as the company’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, reporting to Jim Gallagher, President, to lead efforts to grow and transform the business into a premier grower/shipper of high quality/food safe produce across the East Coast.
Chris is an industry leader who formerly worked for the Chiquita / Fresh Express company for 18 years in various leadership roles, including General Manager / VP of the Fresh Express packaged salad division. Chris has demonstrated the ability to form strong trade relationships to build both commodity and value added produce businesses.
“I’m looking forward to supporting the talented team and farming heritage currently in place at Generation Farms to grow the business via a new vision for superior grown conventional and organic produce in the East, specializing in onions, carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans, blueberries, watermelons, our local organic program and other various produce items,” Hill said in an interview.
“We are thrilled to have Chris as a part of our leadership team to bring his sales and trade marketing expertise to the Generation Farms family to continue our evolutionary path of what the Stanley and Coggins families started years ago,” Jim Gallagher, President of Generation Farms, said in the release.
This past year, Lake Park, GA based Coggins Produce, Inc. and Vidalia, GA based Stanley Farms merged, to become Generation Farms.
About Generation Farms
Generation Farms is a Georgia-based farm and food production company focused on helping generations of families grow stronger, through improved access to high quality fruits and vegetables.
Source: Generation Farms
