Selected by the Advisory Board and Keynote Speaker Faculty as the winner of The Millennium Alliance’s CMO Innovator of the Year award, The Fresh Market’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kevin Miller, accepted the award on behalf of his team’s outstanding efforts for this past year.

Terra Exports, an innovative global fresh fruit company, is making an impact in the Avocado sector by launching its own, in-house brand of avocados called Avolicious.

The private label launched one month ago and has been well received by customers. Avolicious is already being shipped globally, currently to Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the majority across the U.S. One aspect of the brand that customers have enjoyed most is its vibrant purple packaging — a non-traditional choice in the sector.

Blueberries are versatile and can be incorporated into breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert!

For the first time ever, Chiquita is joining forces with the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and donating more than 60,000 delicious yellow bananas to fuel runners during their marathon journey and help them recover after they cross the finish line. To ensure the discarded banana peels don’t go to waste, leftover food scraps will be collected in organic waste bins and taken to a compost facility to be broken down into nutrient-rich soil, which will be donated to community gardens throughout the Chicago area.

This October marks not only the start of Starr Ranch Growers Harvest Season but also brings the announcement of the retirement of longtime Director of Marketing, Scott Marboe.

For the first time in over a year, many students will be back in school buildings, navigating a new normal. The last thing that should be on their minds is where their next meal comes from. Unfortunately, more than 13 million students in the U.S. lack the means to get enough nutritious food on a regular basis. That’s why Fuel Up to Play 60 and Chelan Fresh are stepping up to the plate, donating school meal carts that will be used in Fuel Up to Play 60 schools in Washington and Texas.