Share This Post Facebook Pinterest Twitter LinkedinIn June, the STEM-focused summer camp Camp Invention returned to the Arthur Boring Civic Center in Plant City for the eighth year, with 127 campers spending the week learning and building in the fun-filled environment. After being named Miss Dover Teen USA earlier in the year, Strawberry Crest graduate […]
Fresh-Link Produce hires General Manager for Eastern division
Bob Ritchart, a 25-year veteran of produce sales, grower management and employee development has joined the Fresh-Link team as General Manager of the Eastern division, located in South Georgia. In this role, Bob will be responsible for increasing growers throughout the Southeast to meet the rapid growth of the division, increasing commodity offerings, and adding additional sales professionals.
Ritchart started his produce career in1996 with C.H. Robinson Company in their Tampa office brokering melons and importing tropical items from South America. From there he moved to Rosemont Farms where he continued with imports and began working with eastern growers, eventually moving into management. In 2013, he joined Sweet Life Farms as Sales Manager for strawberries and cantaloupe out of Plant City, and then two years later moved to GA to manage dry veg sales for Lewis Taylor Farms. In 2019, Bob took a break from the produce i