In 2020, Sunkist Growers commissioned a study to learn the reasons why citrus sales were more popular than ever. They discovered it wasn’t just because shoppers were preparing for COVID-19 quarantine.

Fruit World, a family-owned, flavor-focused grower-shipper of organic and conventional fruit, is reporting an exceptional citrus growing season, including a variety of specialty citrus. The season’s varieties include conventional and organic mandarins, as well as organic Cara Cara, Blood, and Navel oranges, organic Minneolas, and their year-round mainstay, organic lemons. They are also pleased to announce the transition of even more acreage towards organic certification.

Wonderful Halos welcomes its 2020 crop season with a new integrated marketing campaign that draws upon Halos’ consistent quality and superior sweet taste. The brand’s marketing plans include a regionally geo-targeted social media campaign, new point-of-sale bin bases and a robust PR program.

London Fruit Inc., a south Texas importer and distributor of mangos, avocados, lemons and limes, announced a new partnership with Hazel Technologies for Limes. 

“We are excited to announce our partnership with Hazel Tech and to be the first in the industry to introduce this value-added service to our lime program," said Mario Cardenas, sales manager. “We see food waste as a growing concern to our customers and the consumer, using Hazel Tech for Limes will ensure the best quality product reaches our customers throughout the country.”

Homegrown Organic Farms has been growing and marketing certified organic produce since 1998, and grows more than 60 percent of its own products.

Unifrutti Group, one of the leading global players in the production, marketing and distribution of high-quality fresh fruit, has acquired a 92 percent stake in Oranfrizer, Italy’s leading producer of blood oranges, sold as fruit or in juice.

Oranfrizer supplies markets worldwide, including Japan, China, the United States and the European Union and it generated $55.55 million in revenues in FY 2019.