ORLANDO, FL — “Save the Queen,” a documentary video on the disappearing honeybee and Colony Collapse Disorder, brought the good news about the apparent rebound in bee colonies in recent years as efforts were mounted to stem the losses.

Ahold USA announced the departure of Joe Kelley, president of the Stop & Shop New England division, effective March 2. The company said he has resigned from his position to pursue other career opportunities.

Don Sussman, division president of Stop & Stop New York Metro, will also oversee the Stop & Shop New England division on an interim basis. Sussman, who earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from Cornell, as well as his MBA from Cornell Business School, has held his current position with Ahold since late in 2011.

On Thursday, Feb. 5, major creditors of the Savoura trademark, which claims to be the largest greenhouse tomato producer in Quebec, asked the court to appoint a receiver under the Bankruptcy & Insolvency Act.

The company, founded under the name Les Serres du St-Laurent Inc., and headquartered in Portneuf, QC, began in business in 1988 headed by the Gosselin and Gauvin families.

Primus Group Inc. announced the sale of its auditing division to Javier Sollozo, the former director of auditing operations at PrimusLabs.

The sale of the auditing division has been in the works for over a year and was prompted by a new requirement of the Global Food Safety Initiative’s Benchmarking Committee in response to Azzule Systems’ request to re-benchmark the PrimusGFS version 2.1.

The deal was reached March 1, and Sollozo’s company, JS Audit Group Inc., will do business as Primus Auditing Operations.

Homegrown Organic Farms has launched a new sustainability program to showcase the company’s efforts in caring for the land, the environment and its communities.

The Committed to Caring program was created to share stories from Homegrown growers and team members that illustrate the company’s value for these relationships. 

“For us, it’s always been about relationships — relationships with our customers, our team members, our communities and the land,” Cherie France, marketing manager for Homegrown Organic Farms, said in a press release.

Westmoreland-TopLine Farms, headquartered in Leamingon, ON, is currently growing, packing and shipping Beefsteak tomatoes, cluster tomatoes, seedless cucumbers, mini seedless cucumbers, mini cocktail cucumbers, Bell peppers, mini peppers, baby eggplant, medley cocktail tomatoes and grape tomatoes.

Jimmy Coppola, account manager and marketing director for the company, said this time of the year the firm’s products are being produced primarily in Mexico.