Vision Import Group in River Edge, NJ, shares the marketing of the “Van Gogh Mango” with Vision Produce Co., in Los Angeles, and Vision Produce Partners of Texas in Pharr, TX.

“We share a unified national distribution,” said Ronnie Cohen, vice president of sales for Vision Import Group.

“We are three separate companies, and we each do business a little differently,” he continued. “But we are unified in the distribution of the popular ‘Van Gogh Mango’ as well as with our lime program. By being strategically aligned, our goal objective is to have full national distribution.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture maintained its estimate of the 2012-13 Florida orange crop at 138 million boxes. The Valencia variety remained at 71 million, while early-mid varieties stayed at 67 million boxes.

In March, California Giant Berry Farms, based in Watsonville, CA, agreed to use FoodLink, a commerce and traceability platform, for item-specific tracking on all of its strawberries grown in the United States.

A couple of years ago, 27-year-old Megan Shanley was happily working away at Driscoll Strawberry Associates as a category development specialist at the company’s category management office in Olathe, KS.

SAN DIEGO — IFCO Systems, a global leader in reusable plastic containers for fresh products, made a donation of RPCs to support Feeding America San Diego's "School's Out, Hunger is Not" program following the United Fresh Produce Association convention May 14-16, here. FASD's program looks to meet the needs of school kids during the summer.

United Fresh and Feeding America have long partnered to prevent fresh produce from going to waste. After this year’s expo in San Diego, more than 30 volunteers helped collect donations from the convention floor to benefit those in need serviced by Feeding America San Diego’s partner agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens and other emergency feeding centers.