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Produce Show Daily Thursday, October 19, 2017 6 4 The Little Potato Company: Striving to Be the Best at Creamer Potatoes Find your passion, pursue it wholeheart- edly, and you'll find success. What's true in life has also proven true for The Little Potato Company. The company's team of passionate potato professionals is focused solely on Creamer potatoes. They don't grow or sell any other products. Period. Some might even say The Little Potato Company is obsessed with Creamers. It cultivates and crafts its own unique and exclusive proprietary little potatoes with great care from seed germi- nation to order delivery. Each and every step is carefully overseen and planned to ensure the company's little Creamers are the absolute best they can be from farm to fork. It all starts with choosing the right varieties. Very few of the thousands of potato varieties that The Little Potato Company cultivates and assesses meet the team's extraordinary standards for a new Creamer. Their variety development team painstakingly chooses a new variety for its taste, visual appeal, amenability to local climates and soils, and ability to stay consistently delicious throughout the year. Once selected, Creamers are grown by farmers who have been carefully cho- sen as the best in the business. When mature, the Creamers are gently harvest- ed and immediately shipped to the com- pany's state-of-the-art processing facilities. There they are washed, sorted and packed under careful scrutiny, and shipped out again while still fresh and bursting with flavor. The team on the processing floor takes as much pride in each and every package as the grower does in nurturing every plant. The Little Potato Company's differ- entiation lies in the innovative and exten- sive ways it offers up its little Creamers. The most popular varieties include Baby Boomer, Blushing Belle, Fingerlings and Chilean Splash. These popular little Creamers are sold in eye-catching and colorful 1.5-pound gusset bags in leading retailers across North America. They're also available in popular value-added Oven|Grill and Microwave Ready kits that are convenient to prepare, with a vari- ety of natural savory seasonings and special- ty cooking trays. To ensure it can continue to meet ever- increasing demand, and exceed customer expectations, the company opened a new U.S. processing facility in DeForest, Wisconsin this year. The company has invested over $20 million in this new 130,000 square foot facility, which features new custom-built processing equipment and will ensure year-round accessibility of Creamer potatoes across North America. For more information, stop by booth #1063. After the show, visit www.little potatoes.com. TropicalFruit Export S.A. Exhibits at Show An interview with Oswaldo Menéndez, General Manager, TropicalFruit Export. PSD: Is this your first PMA? OM: This is our first time as exhibitors but we´ve been coming here for many years. The U.S. was TropicalFruit Export´s first market and it remains very important to us. We are exhibiting this year because we feel prepared to take the next step and increase our volumes here and we think this is the best way to find new partners with whom we can create long term relationships. PSD: What products are you offering? OM: Mainly bananas and plantains from Ecuador. PSD: What makes your products differ- ent than other competitors? OM: I believe we are a different compa- ny that offers added value to our prod- ucts. First of all, we are Carbon Neutral Certified; that means that we measured our CO 2 footprint and we compensate our carbon emissions by sponsoring 1,000 hectares of Ecuadorian rainforest, we pay for them to remain untouched and thus our carbon foot- print is zero. All of our prod- ucts are sustainable, our bananas and plan- tains are Rainforest Alliance, as well as our baby bananas. We also have organic bananas and Fairtrade bananas in con- ventional or organic as well. We customize our products to our client´s needs, we can develop exclusive brands or work with theirs, we can pack our product specific to their needs con- cerning weight, sizes and packing types, for example. We offer solutions and not impositions, and we can deliver where they need it to. PSD: What do you feel is the future in bananas? OM: We believe it´s in what we are offering, in terms of a product that is more environ- mentally friendly and socially responsible but that can be packed in what the customer needs it to be, completely customized. Technology is also key; the consumer of the future will want fruits and groceries probably ordered online and delivered at home. We are already thinking about that and figuring out how we can form part of this new trend as well. For more information, go to www.tropical fruitexport.com or stop by booth #3875. Snoboy Delivers Consistent Quality Snoboy provides fresh fruits and vegeta- bles of the highest quality to the highly demanding retail grocery industry. Environmental variables such as inclement weather, water shortages, pest infestations and import irregularities that disrupt and corrupt the availability of top quality fruits and vegetables make con- sistent supply a top issue in the produce business. Quality and consistency have a direct bearing on the reputation and repeat business of customers. Snoboy offers a reliable and consistent supply of produce that does not sacrifice quality and is not vulnerable to seasonal scarci- ties. With Snoboy, this level of consisten- cy and reliability rests on the shoulders of quality assurance inspectors who are in the field every day examining what is available locally, nationally and interna- tionally to match up customer needs with the currently available supply. Leveraging their experience and relation- ships with their grower sources, they serve as representatives in the field to bring reliable supplies of produce to cus- tomers. If it does not meet the customers' specifications and standards, then it does not pass the Snoboy quality assurance inspection. The Snoboy team meets expectations, every time. Consistent quality, regardless of the season, combined with global purchasing power and strict adher- ence to safety standards make Amerifresh the best choice for produce needs. At Snoboy, flexibility and pur- chasing power provide the value cus- tomers rely on. Snoboy operates sales offices throughout the country to pro- vide convenience and avail- ability. Its field sales associ- ates are in direct contact with growers through procurement operations. Their proximity to the farm results in a more knowledgeable, educated sales team. Living in and around the growing area plus an export sales office in Fresno, California give the Snoboy team the market intelligence needed to forecast future markets. For more information, visit booth #1253 during Fresh Summit or visit online at www.amerifresh.com. Fresh Cut Flowers Now Able to be Fed and Hydrated without Recutting Stems Express Technology from Floralife ® is a revolutionary postharvest product plat- form that allows fresh flowers to be fed and fully hydrated, without ever having to recut the stems before putting in the solution. Appropriate for use with all flower types, Floralife Express Technology is available in a range of sizes and applications for the entire flower chain. Simply put, this inno- vative and premium product platform is perfectly engineered with ingredients to keep flower bouquets and arrangements looking fresh, increasing longevity while reducing costs and saving money without compromising quality or customer satisfac- tion. Floralife Express Technology sup- ports the entire cut flower distribution chain from harvest to home, from grow- ers to wholesalers and from supermar- kets and retail shops to consumers. The Express product platform provides the ultimate enjoyment experience for the end consumer with solutions for hydra- tion and treatment, storage and trans- portation and nourishment and condi- tioning. Benefits and features include: pre- mium flower food for- mulation from the inventor of the Express Technology; provides hydration and nutrition to flowers without the need to recut stems; may be used with a dosing unit, in a cooler or at room temperature; elimi- nates steps to help reduce labor in cut- ting and processing, handling waste, equipment maintenance, production space and handling; frees up processing labor time to better service customers, leading to increased sales; helps reduce product shrink and scrap; enhances cus- tomer experience; promotes immediate uptake for hydration and nutrition while inhibiting premature bud opening or bent neck, while increasing longevity; suitable for use with all flower varieties, fillers and greens; floral designs remain true with less consumer handling; works best with flowers that are stored dry for less than two weeks; allows you to ship, store and sell stems at harvest cut length; and optimal pH to keep flower stems free flowing. To learn more about Floralife Express Technology or to order samples, visit www.express.floralife.com. To see prod- ucts in action, visit the company on social media. Learn more at booth #3022.