US Foods Holding Corp. has successfully completed the acquisition of Renzi Foodservice, a broadline distributor located in Watertown, NY. The transaction, which closed July 7, enables US Foods to further expand its reach into central upstate New York, where the company does not have a distribution center.

Renzi Foodservice has more than $180 million in annual revenue and serves more than 2,300 independent restaurants, healthcare facilities, schools, government organizations, convenience stores and other customers.

The acquisition is the first for the company since April 2020 and the first

July is here, but it will go fast so take full advantage of all the summer fruit by planning some big, exciting ad programs filled with the items your customers want during this time of the year.

Once we reach August, autumn will follow and summer will rapidly slip away. The growers have done their usual outstanding job producing some superior quality fruit in many regions.  

It looks like a good time to plan a blockbuster ad with all the berry varieties that will generate high-volume sales — and berries are always a good customer draw for your store and a way to lead them over to the

A social entrepreneurship project and collaboration between Deardorff Family Farms and Food Share has launched to fight hunger in Ventura County, CA.

Kate Deardorff is a senior in high school who has been volunteering with Food Share Ventura County for many years doing produce packing, food distribution and gardening. She has seen first-hand both the huge demand for fresh food as well as the difficulty for Food Share to source good quality produce for those facing food insecurity. 

"Having grown up in a farming family, I knew that if we could connect the farms more directly with Food Share

It was in 1887 that Peter Sambrailo came to California from Croatia to try his luck at mining gold at Angel Camp in “Gold County.” Though that was one of the richest gold mining regions, Sambrailo was not very successful. Instead, he moved to Watsonville, which had a significant Croatian population, and got into the fruit business.

That move has proven to be fortuitous for the fresh produce packaging industry. Peter’s son, Charles Sambrailo, was born in Croatia at the turn of the 20th century but grew up in Watsonville amidst a thriving apple industry. It was in 1923 that young Charles began

In April, New York state hit a big number in its increasing effort to protect dwindling farmland.

The question is whether what the state government is doing, and what many other states are also trying to accomplish, is enough to reverse a trend that is seeing much of the nation’s farmland in jeopardy of being sold and turned into something else.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that through its Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program, the state broke through the crucial 100,000-acre number as it announced that the program has helped preserve more than 107,000 acres of farmland

U.S. elementary and secondary schools serve more than 30 million meals to kids each day, making K-12 schools large-volume, consistent, dependable foodservice buyers. They shape food preferences for kids who are three markets in one: current produce consumers, future consumers and influencer consumers.   

To help schools source, serve, and promote fresh fruit and vegetables to children, the International Fresh Produce Association connects school menu planners and operators with the produce industry throughout the year, including at The Foodservice Conference, July 26-28 in Monterey, CA.

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