The summer citrus season for LGS Specialty Sales looks to include promotable volume from include fruit from Chile, Peru, Argentina, South Africa and Uruguay.

LGS sources citrus from trusted growing partners around the world to supply U.S. customers with the finest produce supply with optimum freshness year-round. The company works closely with each partner to ensure excellent fruit quality and that safety standards are never compromised.

Church Bros. Farms launched its redesigned website to reflect the company’s strategic long-term vision.

The website, relaunched this spring, was updated to showcase the breadth of the company’s product line — from commodity to value-added items — for both foodservice and retail customers, said Jennifer Wagner Sanchez, director of corporate marketing.

The Kroger Co. announced a spring hiring event scheduled for April 30, the grocer's third nationwide hybrid hiring event. The company is hiring for 23,000 open roles across all departments, including retail, e-commerce, manufacturing, supply chain, merchandising, logistics, corporate, pharmacy and healthcare roles.

The Chilean citrus season kicked off the week of April 11 as the first shipment of clementines set sail for the U.S. market. Chile will be supplying clementines, mandarins, navels and lemons to the U.S. market, with promotional support starting in June and continuing through October.

The current total Chilean citrus forecast across categories is as follows:  

Fusion, a leader in the business-to-business retail environment, is celebrating a major milestone as the company reflects on 25 years specializing in the supply side of the retail chain providing clients with the tools and direction needed to build their sales and distribution processes. Fusion’s unique methodology leverages the true power of retail marketing to help clients uncover growth opportunities and solutions for their unique business needs.

Parker Farms has been in the vegetable business for nearly 50 years, and has experienced rising input prices before, but Sales Manager/Partner Jimmy Carter said the current inflationary pressure is unprecedented and will definitely impact East Coast vegetable production this spring and summer.

“No one has seen this level of price increases before,” he said. “Every input is seeing significant increases. We are in unchartered territory.”