Jesus “Chuy” Loza has resigned from the board of Limoneira to focus on leading the company he co-founded, Freska Produce, Limoneira announced June 14. Loza grew up in company housing at Santa Paula-based Limoneira and started his career with the company while he was a teenager. In 2004, he co-founded Freska Produce, which is now Read More →
Apple’s announcement on June 6 that it would name its next Mac operating system “Ventura” was big news in the tech press, but no surprise to the people at the Visit Ventura, the city’s visitor and convention bureau. They’d been waiting for this moment for eight years, ever since Mike Laan, Visit Ventura’s director of Read More →
Santa Paula-based produce distributor Calavo Growers appointed its new CFO, Shawn Munsell, before the markets opened on June 10. Munsell is Calavo’s sixth permanent or interim CFO in the past two years. The last permanent CFO, Mariela Matute, stepped down from the position just a few months into the job to pursue another offer. CEO Read More →
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Oxnard-based Mission Produce, one of the largest avocado distributors in the world, reported its second-quarter earnings on June 8, including an increase in revenue even as net income fell. Mission recorded revenue of $278.1 million in the second quarter, an 18% increase compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company said this was Read More →