Bakersfield, Calif.― There was nothing bitter about the rivalry when JAZZ™, Pacific Rose™, and Envy™ apples went stem-to-stem in a unique flavor-savoring competition hosted by noted author and producer Arleana Waller last Thursday night.
While Envy won top honors at an evening Waller designed to convey the value apples bring to many areas of a woman’s life, all three brands enjoyed prominence and polish.
Congratulations! Week 8 was our best week so far this year with over 196,000 cases of grapes shipped, including over 32,000 red globes. Wow! Nice work!
These beautiful teardrop-shaped yellow plums have a tender skin that blushes as they ripen. The flesh is a lush amber color with a delicately sweet taste. Here for a very limited time. Packaging specs: 88 cases per pallet—PLU 4442.
Favorable weather conditions with ample sunlight means our B.C. Bell peppers from SunSelect will be available early—we plan to start harvesting week 11. Expect crisp peppers with the signature thick walls SunSelect is known for—all season long.
It’s promotion time with Oppy strawberries! Bite into our big, beautiful berries from California, Florida, and Mexico. Available now!
Mario Illiano says, “Be like Dan Wickland, sell bagged Nours! Or, be like Gis, sell bulk as is!"
Sweet, organic Bartlett pears grown in Argentina are on the water now! First of the season, and we can't wait. 18-kg cases available on the East Coast starting 3/3, with more fruit available toward the end of week 10.
Looking ahead to the Chilean kiwifruit season, between last autumn's frost and high demand from Europe, we expect supply to be short and prices high. We anticipate typical season timing, with the first arrivals expected in the last week of March or the first week of April. All fruit will be firm purchase, and if growers commit to programs/special packs, we will likely work with month-long or period pricing as opposed to season-long commitments.
Look what's arriving on 2/18…
Nour Clementines from Morocco. Fruit is juicy and sweet with a beautiful bright orange color. Available in 5 lb gift boxes, or bags packed to your preference. Don't miss out, available for a limited time. Available to ship week 9.
Take a look at our first Chilean Royal Galas packing in trays and bags. These first lots are showing beautiful color!
Build stone fruit sales with Fortune plums from Chile. Juicy and sweet with an attractive red skin and amber flesh, these plums are sure to drive repeat sales.
Available now.
Grown under the Southern Hemisphere summer sun, our New Zealand apricots will sweeten up your mid-winter sales. Fresh from Central Otago. Available in 3-kg single layer trays for just two more weeks. Enjoy!
Last autumn's frost in Chile has had a severe impact on the Asian pear crop. Oppy expects our original estimate of 100,000 boxes to be reduced to less than 10,000.
This apple is turning heads! Beautiful!
Say bonjour to Oscar kiwifruit, grown in southwestern France and available for a limited time.
Our Mexican Roma tomatoes are showing superb quality! Picked daily and packed in the Oppy label. Available through April.
25 lb bulk box. Call your Oppy sales rep for more info… you won't be disappointed!
Organically greenhouse grown and perfect for grab-and-go, Divemex pairs a red pepper with a yellow pepper in this versatile unit. The two-count bags are packed 12 to a master carton. Positioned with salad ingredients or stir-fry veggies, these pepper packs make a smart, eye-catching impulse purchase.
We're expecting our first arrivals of these luscious beauties on the East Coast on February 20. Don't miss out!
Nour Clementines from Morocco will be arriving soon. Sweet, juicy, virtually seedless and here for a limited time only.
Take a look at this outstanding JAZZ apple display… those 2 lb. pouch bags make you want to carry them off!
In a first for the Oppy citrus category — Israeli Suntina's (also known as Novas) have made an appearance in Ontario and across the Canadian prairie provinces to Calgary.
The program kicked off early in the new year with 2 lb bags and regular 10 kg bulk boxes.
The feedback to the flavor and appearance has been very positive and augurs well for an expanded program in 2015.
With brix ratios of 15+ these particular Clementines are exceedingly sweet!
After a 3 year gap, the Oppy citrus category is excited to have Moroccan Nours back in the stable of products we can offer this late winter period.
Packed in the ever popular 5-lb gift box as well as 2-lb and 3-lb bags we have the option to suit all store format needs.
In this climate-affected easy peeler season–these excellent eating late Clementines will be hot property!
We will see first containers arrive onto the eastern seaboard around February 17 and continued arrivals continue until late March.
Now harvesting organic strawberries from Coachella. Quality is great. Berries are juicy, sweet and red. Packed in the Oppy label (see photo of 1-lb. clamshells).
High graphic, high impact bags are sure to drive apple sales.
10 bags per master box.
65 boxes per pallet.
Packing now.
We are now packing and shipping gorgeous plums in 2 lb. bags. Product of Chile.
All apples in Washington state are experiencing poor packouts due to the heat last August. Many Gala packers are reporting 15 boxes of apples per bin, so we are actually faring better at 15-18 packs per bin at Crane and McDougall.
Jazz: 18% down; 147,000 decrease for Oppy.
Pac Rose: 8% down; 43,000 decrease for Oppy.
Envy: 16% down; 32,000 decrease for Oppy.
While we have experienced no disruptions yet, pressure continues. The president of the Port Workers Front Julio Castillo was arrested on 1/21 for disorderly conduct. Fruit officials and port officials met with him prior to the arrest. Containers are difficult, putting pressure on all exporters. The other open ports where our break bulk ships are loading are getting more pressure to strike as well as pressure to receive other container lines.
The image shows four of seven ships anchored outside of San Antonio waiting to be loaded.