Newport Avenue Market, which offers shoppers both mainstream and specialty grocery options, was recently awarded the Ben Schwartz Retail Grocery Visionary Award from Unified Grocers. This is the 10th year that Unified Grocers has presented the award to an outstanding independent retailer and the first time this award has been given to a single store. Rudy and Debbie Dory and their daughter, Lauren Johnson, owners of Newport Avenue Market, accepted the award at a special awards dinner in Los Angeles.

Stemilt and Sunkist have brought two kid-favorite fruit varieties together in the newest offering from the Lil Snappers line.

Duda Farm Fresh Foods, headquartered in Oviedo, FL, has a new Ready-to-Eat Radish product line that started hitting stores in the Northeast and West Coast in January.

“We saw an opportunity to innovate in the radish category by offering new forms with compelling product benefits,” said Nichole Towell, director of marketing.

John Cushing,  vice president of sales for New York Apple Sales Inc., headquartered in Glenmont, NY, told The Produce News that the company has attended and exhibited at the Southeast Produce Council’s Southern Exposure event since its inception.

Howard Nager, vice president of marketing at Domex Superfresh Growers, delivered a box of fresh Autumn Glory Apples to Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito (R-MA) in her Boston office Friday, Feb. 6. The special delivery was in honor of a friendly wager between Lt. Gov. Polito and Washington state Lt. Gov. Brad Owen (D-WA) on the outcome of Super Bowl XLIX.

CMI has announced that "Kanzi" brand apples are now available. Each year Kanzi apples are held in storage and released in February, timed to coincide with dwindling supplies of local apple varieties and when retailers are hungry for a new products.