Frozen food makes consumption more accessible for busy families. It comes peeled and chopped, so it’s even easier for households to incorporate fruits and vegetables at mealtime.
The new product blitz is coming at a time when nearly 30% of Americans have added freezer space to their home and there’s a renewed appetite for frozen fruit.
Seal the Seasons, the first national brand to sell locally grown frozen produce, has added Serafina Palandech as VP of sales, and Tom Healy as senior sales advisor. Over the past 10 years, Palandech founded, scaled, and sold her own organic chicken nugget venture. Healy played a significant sales role at both Vitamin Water and Pirates Booty prior to their successful acquisition.
Seal the Seasons, the first national brand to sell locally grown frozen produce, has launched a new line of Farmers Blends smoothie items, with key retailers nationwide. The brand’s distribution strategy has expanded space for Farmer Blends in over 1000 retail locations.
Plant is expected to facilitate distribution of Dole frozen products on the east coast.
February 17, 2021
Dole Foods has opened a new state-of-the-art frozen fruit facility in McDonough, Georgia, Dole's third frozen fruit facility in the United States, complimenting the existing operations in Atwater, California, and Decatur, Michigan. The new facility is approximately 60,000 square feet, fully automated and will have four manufacturing lines which when at capacity can produce 60 million pounds of frozen fruit annually. The operations will package frozen fruit for Dole's retail, food service and private label customers on the east coast.
(Editor's Note: This bereavement notice was written by the team at Firestone Pacific Foods on January 20, 2021.) It is with heavy hearts that we announce the untimely death of our esteemed colleague, Brad Vesterby, Director of Sales at Firestone Pacific Foods. Brad passed away this past weekend as a result of complications following treatment for cancer. Brad is survived by his parents, Gary and Lucy Vesterby; his sister, Dawn Everard; and two sons, Jase and Craig Vesterby.