King Fresh Produce LLC, based in Dinuba, CA, recently announced Rene Millburn as its new public relations director. Millburn will be based in the company’s Midwest office, located just outside Kansas City, MO.

Pacific AgPak, a packaging company that provides clamshells and other packaging materials and related services to the strawberry industry, has several new “packaging strategies” that the company has either introduced recently or will soon launch, according to President Dave Baum.

One of these is a high cube packaging program, designed to increase the amount of fruit that can be loaded on a truck per cubic foot of trailer space by 33 percent.

Market Fresh Produce LLC has been involved in marketing sweet onions for six years. After tomatoes, the sweet onion category is a key “driver” for the firm, according to the firm’s Tyler Phipps, director of field operations. Sweet potatoes are a third category driver for Market Fresh.

“We handle a tremendous volume” of onions 52 weeks a year, he said. Within the sweet onion category, Vidalia onions are of course key.

For the third year in a row, United Family stores will help serve the hungry in their local communities by donating more than 30,000 pounds of apples to five local food banks in their trade areas.

Bi-Lo Holdings LLC, parent company of BI-LO and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, announced that it will rebrand 18 Sweetbay stores throughout the Tampa, Brandon and Zephyrhills areas in Florida. The Sweetbay stores are scheduled to close on Saturday, April 5, and reopen on Friday, April 11, as Winn-Dixie stores.

Village Farms International Inc. announced that it is part of the first renewable energy quad-generation project ever to be realized for a greenhouse operation from fuel-cell technology.