The Los Angeles sales office of Allen Lund Co. announced the promotion of Kelly Miller to operations manager on Feb. 9.

“I am excited to take on my new role and proud to work for such a great company,” Miller said in a company press release. “I look forward to continuing to build the Los Angeles office with the support of a great team.”

The tentative agreement between the International Longshore & Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association is positive news for the Washington apple industry, which has seen several challenges on the export front during the current season.

The deal struck Feb. 20 means that normal work flow is being resumed at the 29 ports on the West Coast, including the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, which are responsible for much of the apple export volume out of Washington state.

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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