“Our customers wish for us to supply them with core products year round,” Dave Parker, director of marketing for Scattaglia Growers & Shippers LLC, headquartered in Traver, CA, told The Produce News. “This is why we do business in the Southern Hemisphere. Working with highly professional growers and exporters enables us to live up to our motto, ‘Good Taste Delivered Well.’”

Pacific Trellis Fruit LLC in Reedley, CA, introduced its new “Goin’ Ape” label to the trade at the Produce Marketing Association’s October Fresh Summit event, although it was shipping product under the label to one retail account prior to the event.

On Oct. 14, Crowley Maritime Corp.’s logistics group announced that it named Nelly Yunta vice president of U.S. imports, customs brokerage and consulting for Customized Brokers, Crowley’s customs brokerage company in Miami, where Ms. Yunta is based. She reports to Crowley’s Steve Collar, senior vice president and general manager, logistics.

Blueberry bread made with California Giant Berry Farms’ Chilean blueberries.

Consumers of California Giant Berry Farms’ bluebe

Dean Holmquist

Dean Holmquist, president of the Eastern Produce Council, told The Produce News that the responses he re

TUBAC, AZ -- The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas presented its second annual Pillar of the FPAA Award posthumously to two pioneers of the Nogales produce industry during the closing event of the 43^rd annual Nogales Produce Convention & Golf Tournament, held here Nov. 3-5.