Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

The Cost of Lost Reputation: The Price of Our Loss in Afghanistan Reminds The Industry That Reputation is a Great Store of Value

August 18, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

Long term, there are big questions to assess regarding our engagement in Afghanistan. Most notably, how could a large army, trained and equipped by the United States over 20 years, simply disappear? There are experts trying to address this question. For our purposes, the subject raises the importance of honesty in assessing one’s own people, the team capabilities, and their motivation. One lesson is it is easy to fool oneself about weaknesses in one’s own organization. …

Harvard Study On Produce and Mortality: Five Servings a Day is Key, but We Need to Quantify the Benefits

July 6, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

The latest Produce for Better Health Research points to a continuous decline in produce consumption per capita. Although individual products still increase and individual companies are doing well, it will be difficult to sustain a growing industry if we can’t turn around consumption. …

Perishable Pundit Podcast New Episode: PMA/United Merger — What is Gained? What is Lost?

May 18, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

How best to move ahead? It is the question for each of us as individuals, as executives for our companies and, as leaders, for the industry as a whole. What technology, what institutions, what ways of thinking can help us best address the future. …

New York Produce Show Discussions: Pundit Interviews Branding Expert Lisa Cork: Three Macro Trends to Feel Positive About

May 17, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

Lisa is unique. She is an American, yet has spent decades living in New Zealand and engaging with the Pacific Rim and with Asia. She built her fame in packaging, but has come to go so far beyond that base. …

New York Produce Show Discussions: Cornell’s Ed McLaughlin Gazes Into Crystal Ball, Sees Smaller Format Stores With Secondary Warehousing, JIT Delivery, Changes In Retail-Buyer Relationships, Just To Name A Few…

May 14, 2021 Jim Prevor’s Perishable Pundit

One of the advantages of having done a virtual edition of The New York Produce Show and Conference was that we came out of it with an all-star collection of incredible industry insight. Today, we share with the broader Pundit audience a conversation with Ed McLaughlin of Cornell University. Ed is widely recognized as the world’s leading academic authority on the fresh produce industry and the broader food system. …