Fresh Produce

Food and beverage businesses should focus on the consumer, invest in tech, says Numerator

15-Aug-2023 By Deniz Ataman

The intrinsic connection between consumer preferences and market dynamics will be shaped by a once limited and now more stable supply chain, improved inflationary pressures and a departure from COVID-19 concerns, giving brands more clarity on how to develop...

Full Harvest closes $23m Series B financing round

21-Dec-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Full Harvest, a B2B marketplace for surplus and imperfect produce, has secured a $23m Series B round of financing to expand its online marketplace aimed at tackling the $2.6 trillion global food waste issue.

WATCH: Apeel CEO: ‘The way I think about it is that waste is this invisible tax on the entire food system…’

02-Dec-2021 By Elaine Watson

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (although it did take a materials scientist) to work out that if you can double, triple, or even quadruple the shelf-life of fresh produce, you can slash food waste, and save money.

Driscoll’s president: 'We don't want to throw fruit away'

15-Apr-2020 By Elaine Watson

With retailers prioritizing pantry essentials in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, some deliveries of short-shelf life fresh produce were turned away from distribution centers to make room for toilet paper, pasta sauce and frozen food, causing...

Bolthouse Farms CEO: ‘It’s like fighting a war and everyone has the job of supporting the frontline troops’

31-Mar-2020 By Elaine Watson

Bolthouse Farms – a fresh food business specializing in packaged carrots and juices & smoothies – is gearing up for a sustained lift in demand as food consumption shifts to the home, potentially for months, beginning a “a huge sociological experiment,”...

Merchandising fresh produce: Shoppers seek more snack-sized and local options

27-Mar-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

How brick-and-mortar retailers merchandise and present their fresh produce selection plays an important role in driving sales, shares the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) in its 2019 Power of Produce report.

Nielsen: 'We expect consumers' focus on fresh to sharpen'

27-Feb-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Consumers' desire to eat better is having a strong impact across the fresh food sector from produce to prepared foods to meal kits, according to recent Nielsen research.

Curation Foods targets the plant-forward consumer: 'The future of retail is fresh,' says CEO

30-Jan-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Curation Foods (formerly Apio) is targeting the growing plant-forward consumer base with a portfolio of five branded product lines with core ingredients being fruits and vegetables, which CEO and president of parent company Landec, Molly Hemmeter, believes...