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The Power In Giving

Recently, FreshPoint South Florida had the privilege in supporting HANDY, Inc. this Thanksgiving season. The Power of Giving – Thank You Kirk Brown, the CEO of HANDY, Inc., wrote to our team, “I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for exercising humanity. This Thanksgiving season, we were able to serve a family style...

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The Benefit of Developing Leaders from Within

Why work on developing leaders from within?  Without a doubt, the most fulfilling part of my job at FreshPoint is coordinating our Leadership Development program. I feel that it is an obligation of top management in our company to grow leaders at all levels of our organization. A Structured Program At FreshPoint, we have developed...

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BJ’s Awards FreshPoint the Gold Standard Partner Supplier of the Year

This year at the 2018 BJ’s Brewhouse General Manager Conference, FreshPoint was awarded the Gold Standard Partner Supplier of the Year.  It was with true honor to accept the distinguished award that acknowledges the partnership we have nourished and continue to grow. “This is a huge honor as BJ’s has hundreds of vendor partners and...

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Strawberries and Champagne: A Vanderbilt tradition

Strawberries and Champagne is one of Vanderbilt University’s longest running traditions for their graduating class Commencement Week celebration.   This year they purchased 672 flats of Driscoll’s strawberries totaling nearly 5,400 pounds! Our crew arrived at the university at 4 a.m. We were able to wash each flat of berries and reload them on pallets...

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Maria: Recognized for her distinguished community support

I’m privileged and delighted to share with everyone that recently our Operations Manager for FreshPoint Puerto Rico—Maria Innes—was recognized as an “Outstanding Woman of the Year”. Maria received an award for Distinguished Community Support from Eric Correa, Puerto Rico Senate Elect and President of the Banking, Commerce, and Credit Commission alongside the Woman’s Business, Leaders,...

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Honor Flight South Florida: Kelly shares her story

I had the honor to spend the day with Korean War Veteran, and new friend Garrison Arthur Phillips, along with 68 other World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam Veterans on the Honor Flight South Florida on April 14. I wanted to be a Guardian on The Honor Flight as a way to honor my...

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Doug has a Military Homecoming “Special Delivery” for Bill

Bill has been a member of our FreshPoint Central Florida Family for 21 years, and is a dedicated member of our transportation team. His son, Doug, hadn’t seen his dad in five years, and he asked for our help surprising him with a military homecoming. The management team arranged for a “special delivery” for Bill...

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Take Your Children to Work Day, FreshPoint South Florida style

This year, Florida moved the national Take Your Children to Work Day event from April to February 2nd, and boy did the children of FreshPoint South Florida have fun! The day started out with snacks (who doesn’t like to start the day with snacks?) and a meeting with the president, Clay Wachter. The day continued...

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Employees Help for the Holidays

Did you know FreshPoint supports hundreds of organizations throughout North America? We give MILLIONS of pounds of produce, we participate in hundreds of fundraisers, and we are very active with charities and special causes in our communities during the year and also help for the holidays. “I feel it is very important to be involved...

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The technology of beautiful greenhouse tomatoes in the winter

As you sit in the comfort of your home, have you ever eaten a perfect tomato on a salad or a burger and wondered the journey that has taken that tomato from field to fork? Or in the case of Mastronardi tomatoes, greenhouse to fork? Recently, members of the FreshPoint team had the pleasure of...

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Employees walk for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

We are always extremely proud when our associates donate their time and effort for worthy causes. This year, FreshPoint Denver and FreshPoint Nashville both donated to the American Cancer Society, Making Strides for Breast Cancer.     FreshPoint Denver associates joined together to raise $1,242.00 to donate towards the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K...

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FreshPoint employees rally together to help with donations after Hurricane Maria

Our employees rallied together in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria—and FreshPoint is proud to recognize our team’s donations, hard work, exemplary service, and time donated to help those in need.  In addition to all of the employees who made contributions, we would like to thank Kim LeBlanc, General Manager of FreshPoint Puerto Rico, who has worked...

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What it Means to be Your Customer’s Most Valued and Trusted Business Partner

How do you get to be your customer’s most valued and trusted business partner? When you have a customer, on a stage, that tells the audience they “simply wouldn’t know what to do without this individual’s daily attention to detail and ability to bring solutions when problems arise,” you take notice. We can’t make it...

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Apprentice Diary: Entry One—Integrating a Passion for Sustainability

When we talk about sustainability, we don’t just mean the environment—our employees are our greatest asset and the foundation to our great success. We work with internships, local schools and colleges for placement, and various in-house leadership programs throughout the year, developing people with a passion for produce. In this diary series, Maria Elisa Vollmer...

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Employees Unite to Brighten the Holidays for the Disadvantaged

“Did you know FreshPoint supports hundreds of organizations throughout North America? We give MILLIONS of pounds of produce, we participate in hundreds of fundraisers, and we are very active with charities and special causes in our communities during the year and holiday time.

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FreshPoint Central California – Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. This inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions!

FreshPoint Central California came together to fund-raise and created

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Family Fun Day at FreshPoint Central California!

At FreshPoint, our employees are the foundation to our great success. While we offer excellent benefits and competitive wages, we like to let our employees know that we appreciate all of their hard work.  Read about how our Central California location showed their employee appreciation with their Family Fun Day event from July 24^th.

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FreshPoint Central California Goes Red for Women!

Since 2014, FreshPoint Central California has proudly been a Heart Sponsor in the Modesto Go Red for Women Luncheon, and we strongly encourage raising awareness by educating women, especially our associates.

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A Fresh Season of Generosity…

 

At FreshPoint, we are honored to give back to our communities. Below is a roundup of the generous contributions our employees and companies made during the 2015 holiday season.

Our employees not only donated toys, food, or money, in some cases, they also made a donation of their time—an equally precious commodity.

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It’s a Pumpkin-palooza at Frank West Elementary School

For the past couple of weeks FreshPoint Central California’s School Sales Account Executive, Sarah Telson, has been working closely with Kitchen Manager, Chef Brandon Sullivan from Frank West Elementary School within the Bakersfield City School District, to put together a nutrition lesson and cooking demonstration on pumpkins. On November 9th, Chef Brandon began his day...

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