BrightFarms, a leading provider of locally grown packaged salads, operates six commercial, indoor farms across the East Coast and Midwest. The company recently promoted Abby Prior to chief commercial officer and formed a new commercial team.

Even though the Bushwick Commission works with onions and other mixed vegetables from throughout the northeast region, potatoes are its core business, making up the majority of its sales.

Verdant Technologies established a Mexican entity and plans to serve produce and floral customers in Mexico with its shelf-life extension solution, HarvestHold. Mexico is the first country targeted in Verdant’s plans to scale internationally across the globe.

Publix Super Markets’ Vice President of Marketing Mark Irby will retire at the end of February 2022, concluding 48 years with the company. Malinda Renfroe, who began her Publix career in 2005 as a marketing support associate, will fill the vacated role.

Irby began his Publix career in 1973 at the sign shop in Lakeland, FL. After working in various capacities within that department he transferred into the advertising department in 1983 as a marketing and research manager. In 1988, he was promoted to director of marketing and advertising and to his current role in 1989.

There is an opportune landscape for branded apple promotions as strong category builders, according to a special CatStat (category statistics) report looking at data from Nielson Answers, total U.S. for the 52-week period ending Nov. 27.

Sun World International, LLC, recently announced it has added several marketers to its licensee lineup in the Southern Hemisphere. These include two newly licensed marketers in Peru, PuraFruit and Pampa Baja, as well as Bravis in Brazil and EXSA in South Africa.