The North Carolina State Ports Authority is expanding capabilities to better support the North Carolina agriculture industry through a partnership with Scoular.

North Carolina Ports recently received approval from the North Carolina Council of State for a land lease to develop an agricultural transload facility on the port of Wilmington. Council of State approved the long-term lease for Scoular to develop an at-port facility that will receive, store and load agricultural products.

T&G Global named Doug Bygrave as its new chief financial officer, effective March 1. Bygrave will succeed Bastian von Streit, who is returning home to Germany to take up the position of chief financial officer global produce with BayWa AG.

Currently company secretary, with additional responsibility for risk and treasury, Bygrave has been with T&G for over 24 years. In this time, he has held senior finance business roles across the entire business and also run shared services. 

IFCO Systems, a leading provider of Reusable Plastic Containers for fresh food packaging, announced Candice Herndon has been named president of IFCO North America.

Police detectives in Gwinnett County, GA, arrested a 19-year-old man after he scammed over $980,000 from Kroger during a two-week time period. Tre Brown was arrested after he created false returns at the Kroger where he was employed between December and January.

Oppy, a leading grower, marketer and distributor of fresh produce from around the world, announced a new grape program building on its exclusive partnership with Ocean Spray, the agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 farmer families.

Tyler Cobb has been hired as the director of grower relations and field sourcing for McDaniel Fruit Co., home of Linda Vista brand fresh produce.