If all goes as planned, the Pharr International Bridge in South Texas will have a companion bridge on which to carry produce into the United States by the end of 2023.

“We are expecting to break ground by the summer of 2022,” said Bridge Director Luis Bazán, who is employed by the City of Pharr. “It’s a 14-month construction project so that would bring us to late in 2023.”

Earlier this month, The GIANT Co. officially opened its new GIANT Direct e-commerce fulfillment center (EFC) in Philadelphia. The ultramodern 124,000-square-foot facility will enable the company to serve more customers in Philadelphia and — for the first time in its 98-year history — in southern New Jersey.  

Thanks to more than 70 years of success working in the Boston area, Community-Suffolk Inc. was able to use its knowledge and experience to keep business steady since March of 2020, when the COVID-19 crisis through the industry into chaos.

That knowhow trickled down through the years from the early 20th century, when the company’s first leader, Larry Piazza, Sr., hawked produce from a pushcart operating out of Boston’s Faneuil Hall.

FullTilt Marketing, a firm focused on agriculture, fresh produce and specialty food industries recently expanded the team welcoming Kari Fox as the new creative director and Dan Kaho as senior project manager.

Uber Technologies Inc. announced its support of grocery partner Albertsons Cos. Inc.’s Nourishing Neighbors program to give 100,000 meals to families in need this Thanksgiving. The donation will be distributed through the Albertsons Companies Foundation and provided to local charities that will use the money to fund healthy meals for children in need during the holiday season and connect families to federal programs.

This Thanksgiving, Brighter Bites acknowledged and thanked its many partners who make its programming a success for the 30,000 families served in cities across the country, including Houston, Dallas, Austin, New York City, Washington, DC, southwest Florida, and Salinas, CA.