The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we are representing our sponsor Flavor Wave, LLC during SPONSORSHIP MONTH. Michael Chavez, President of Flavor Wave and Vice President of Golden Star Citrus and I have a fun chat about being in the produce industry, traveling to check out some orange groves and some overall chatter about some of our favorite Adam Sandler movies and n...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with our Fancy Sponsor United Fresh's Produce Associations Mary Coppola-Heslap, Vice President of Marketing and Communications and Adrianna Campbell, Owner of Berry and Sons Produce. We are celebrating BLACK HISTORY MONTH w/ Berry and Sons Produce - FIRST GENERATION FARMER!!!! Mary and I chat about the current BrandStorm Virt...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with our Fancy Sponsor Terra Exports very own Ludmila Shoom, Sales Manger in Ukraine and Theresa McKeown, Author of THE ABC's of EVERYTHING. We travel from Florida to California with Theresa and then flash our way all the way to Ukraine with Ludmila talking ALL THINGS PRODUCE!!!!!! First we chat with Ludmila Shoom, Sales...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with our Standard sponsor Dan Corsaro, President of Indianapolis Fruit Company & Joe Manns, Partner of JMC Brands. Indianapolis Fruit Company joined the sponsorship in January 2021 kicking each week off with weekend winners and new products updates. Today, we chat with Dan about the growth and differentiation with Indy...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with our Fancy Sponsor Ag Tools, Inc's very own David Wilson and the group from London Fruit Company, Barry London, Amanda Horney, & Jerry Garcia.  We hear from David Wilson, Executive Vice President Sales, Growers about how Ag Tools is revolutionizing the Produce Industry with Data and insights. David and...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with our Standard SponsorRoss Nelson, Vice President of Retail Execution with Indianapolis Fruit Company and Mattie Fisher, Marketing Manager & Scott Geiser, Business Development Manager of John Greene Logistics.  We chat with Ross Nelson first about Indianapolis Fruit Company and their WEEKEND WINNERS, The Indy Fr...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we go over the United re-fresh Experience with Amanda Griffin. Amanda and Patrick walkthrough the entire month of January going through each event and what was expected and there is to look forward to in the months to come.  Join us and revise the United re-Fresh experience! FANCY SPONSORS: Terra Exports: https://terraexports....

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with Liz Walsh , Insights to Innovation at Georgia-Pacific  & Mary Coppola-Heslap , Vice President of Marketing & Communications .  We kick of the episode chatting with Mary of United Fresh on the first 14 -21 days of the new year. Between her and I we are starting the year re-FRESHED and&nbsp...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly  we chat with Cristian Sierralta, Sales Director of South America & Stefanie Katzman, Executive Vice President of Katzman Produce. 2021 has got off to a great start representing the YEAR of FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Join our fresh talk with Cristian at Terra Exports discussing the South American Division coming to u live from C...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we honor our Fancy Sponsor for the first episode of the year giving thanks and kicking off 2021 with a BANG. 2021 is the year of FRUITS AND VEGETABLES and its going to be a good one. Martha and her team at Ag Tools have been revolutionizing the Produce Industry with Data/Analytics and how to utilize them in your everyday business.  N...

In this we travel though 2020 at light speed while catching up with some of the industries HERO's. Thats right from growers, packers, shippers, marketers, wholesalers, importers, exporters, logistics, and more. We hear from a lot of these great people about LESSONS LEARNED FOR 2020, What they are most looking forward to in Q1, and some shout outs and announcements. I also chat a bit about The Top...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with our Fancy Sponsors very own Director of Business Development, Travis McLachlan, Jen Velasquez & Michelle Cortez of The Clean Eating Challenge 2.0 by Vive Fresh and the Texas International Produce Association. Travis starts our conversation out with giving some background of the regions he covers at Terra Exports as...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with Raul, Vice President of AG TOOLS, INC. ,and Gary Fleming, CEO of  Dapicon.  We start the conversation with our Fancy partner Ag Tools coming to us LIVE from Mexico. Raul's extensive background in The Produce Industry shows through his Passion for Ag Tools. We discuss marketing, winter programs, and...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with Alex Baloga, President & CEO of The Pennsylvania Food Merchant  Association , Amanda Griffin of United Fresh Produce Association and Kristen Reid of  Mixtec Group. We first chat with Amanda and Kristen leading up to January 2021, United Fresh's Re-Fresh Program. This program is going to be...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with Lauren Mordasky , Business Development Manager at RPE/Tasteful Selections and Yasir Khan , Founder of EZ Crops . We start the conversation bringing Lauren back on the line, that is right.... hear our little story of how she has already been recoding, but the audio was never produced. We chat about Tasteful Selecti...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast Ross Nelson , Director of Retail Execution of In dianapolis Fruit Company , hosts the show interviewing Michael Chavez and Patrick Kelly of Flavor Wave, LLC - or as you might of heard of them through their Flavor Wave Fresh Mobile Application . Michael and Patrick will dive deep into how they created this concept, a brief overview...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with Abby Prior, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Bright Farms and Matt DeBoer, Vice President of Global Sales and Miguel Montero, Strategy Executive & Operations Manager of Ag Tools, Inc. We start the conversation bringing Matt DeBoer back on the show and hear about how Ag Tools is always educating and...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with James Williams   Manager, Marketing & Product Development  with Intergrow Greenhouses, Inc and Ankia Rabie, Director of Sales, South Africa of Terra Exports.  We begin the conversation with Ankia about how she stumbled upon living in Hong Kong and developing her Terra Ex...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with Thomas Mantz, President of Feeding Tampa Bay. Thomas and Patrick chat about the Tampa Bay Area that Thomas's team is serving throughout the year, how the global pandemic has increase demand, and safety within production.  Feeding Tampa Bay has participated in distributing the Farmers to Fa...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with Joe Fox, Marketing Manager of Port of Philadelphia (PhilaPort). The Port of Philadelphia is "Open for Business" and has been grinding and thriving during the Pandemic. We chat with Joe about The Port of Philadephia being # 1 in Food Products,  Future Opportunities and construction in and out of the port, and new saf...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we chat with Nick Mascari, President of Belle Harvest based in Michigan. As a business built on generations of growers, Belle Harvest strives to maximize value for our retail partners, growers, and consumers. Every apple receives special care and attention from the field all the way to the shelf, to ensure delivery of the highest q...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast with Patrick Kelly we bring you some CELEBRITY GUESTS. Now these are not your traditional celebrities, I mean yes they are in movies, yes you will recognize them if you see in a crowd, but......not so sure how long you could be around them. So all the way from Transylvania we have Dracula and Franksteins Monster and across the sands of time to the he...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with our Fancy Sponsor Martha Montoya CEO of Ag Tools and Carlo Trimboli, Owner of Samson's Fruit and Vegetable Supply all the way from "Down Under" Sydney, Australia. Martha leads the conversation about talent at Ag Tools and how the organization is split between the United States (60% of workforce) and Mexico (40% of w...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat with Jean Ginzburg is a #1 best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and digital marketing expert with more than 12 years of industry expertise helping companies scale revenue, optimize sales and marketing processes and improve productivity. Jean is the CEO and Founder of JeanGinzburg.com , a digital marketing education...

In this episode of The Produce Industry Podcast w/ Patrick Kelly we chat about the overall #freshsummit experience from connections, content, and even some cameos. As I stated in the podcast, I am not going to go over the entire show because it is open till November 13, 2020 and believe you should make the decision to go check it out! We then talk with Andrew Mashler&...