If you take the most successful leaders of any industry and you map their career trajectories backwards, you’ll see a series of “turns” where they deepened and expanded their skills to prepare for the next level.  This is described in the well-known “Leadership Pipeline,” which illustrated this upward climb in  six passages bringing them from individual contributors to enterprise managers.

Weis Markets stores have been running customer donation program in support of local food banks in the markets it serves as part of the company’s Fight Hunger program.

At checkout, customers have the option of rounding up their orders or purchasing $1-10 vouchers to help support families in need in their communities.

Apeel announced the hiring of Jim Smits as vice president of retail advisory, a new role designed to align Apeel’s solutions with the needs of retail grocery executives in operations, merchandising, marketing and fresh produce. In addition, Apeel CEO James Rogers has been appointed technology council chair for the newly formed International Fresh Produce Association, which is poised to become one of the most influential produce governing organizations in the world.

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.