RIO RICO, AZ — Describing his upcoming shipping plans, Jorge Quintero, Jr., concluded, “We will be pretty busy.” The bear of a young man then flashed his infectious, big, warm grin.

He is very humble but deservedly happy about the ongoing success of his distribution company.

Quintero is the managing partner of Grower Alliance, LLC, based here.

“We’ve been going full blast since November,” he said in mid-January.

NOGALES, AZ — On Dec. 1, Diego Ley, became the general manager of Del Campo Supreme, Inc.

In the process of his new responsibility he is “marrying the departments” of sales and operations of the grower-packer-shipper.

In 1980, Ley’s father, also named Diego Ley, initiated Del Campo operations with 100 acres of Italian squash and bell peppers. Since that time, the firm has greatly expanded in volume, commodity diversification and technical sophistication.

A five-year analysis of media coverage of the Environmental Working Group’s annual release of its “dirty dozen” list showed efforts to counter this misinformation by the Alliance for Food & Farming resulted in EWG’s once dominant one-sided media coverage to decline by more than half (99.8 percent down to 48 percent). 

The New England Produce Council held its annual dinner dance gala — with the theme Moonlight Garden — at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. This year's event was especially memorable, as 2015 marks the council's 20th anniversary.

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An unlikely star emerged as the national media darling when the contents of the “Everyone Wins at the Oscars” nominee gift bags were revealed to the public.

Mann Packing Co. redesigned the packaging for its full line of fresh-cut organic vegetables. The revamped graphics, several months in creation, feature a premium rich color palette, clean, natural fresh design and a large window and product viewing area, according to Kim St. George, director of marketing and communication for the Salinas, CA-based firm.