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Mango Chinese Chicken Salad
The crunchy salad of summer This is one of our favorite summer salads. Its filling, easy to make and wonderfully delicious (also healthy). We love adding mangoes to this classic salad, not only do they take the place of the often-soggy mandarin oranges, but they bring a slight tropical twist to this crunchy and beautiful…
Continue ReadingEmpaque don Jorge (El Original)
Boasting the most efficient and modern mango pack house around Disclaimer: This is a boastful and prideful post about a packing house that I truly believe in. I’m one of a few globally well-traveled industry folks with an extremely diverse make up of commodities, markets, cultures and systems. I have seen a lot of packing…
Continue ReadingChallenging Transition on the Foreground
Mature southern fruit + late Nayarit entrance = complex changeover By definition the word foreground insinuates a seemingly larger position of prominence. I choose to use that word here as it’s important that we all understand the complexities that are looming in the mango world, as Mexico prepares to transition from the southern producing regions…
Continue ReadingPick Your Promotion!
Crespo Organic 2022 Season Promotional Calendar is Out! Bits and pieces or the whole package… we have what you need, and it’s not just #MuchosMangoes sales! We can help you build and shape durable mango programs that educate, engage and entice your shoppers all season long and keep them coming back for more. Season after…
Continue ReadingCelebrating Courageous, Confident Women
Confident, courageous women #BreaktheBias I have some OPINIONS about today, if you have interest- these are my opinions, keep that in mind! International Women’s Day comes up every year and, like those other weird 24-hour holidays like Father’s Day or Mother’s Day whose concepts seem like they should stretch beyond a mere 24-hour day, it…
Continue Reading“Tis the Season to Get Saucy
Saucy and sweet with the perfect amount of heat- Crespo Sinaloa Sauce! Mangoes are one of the biggest agricultural products from Mexico. In the U.S., mango consumption begins to peak in spring and explodes in the summertime, which coincides with the peak production of mangoes from Mexico. America’s massive mango demand makes them one of…
Continue ReadingEmpaque Don Jorge II Opens for the 2022 Season
Packing Crespo Organic Ataulfo & Tommy Atkins Mangoes! Ocozocoautla de Espinosa (Coita), Chiapas, Mexico In 2019, just prior to the mango season, El Grupo Crespo opened Empaque Don Jorge II (EDJ II) in Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Chiapas, or – as the locals call it – Coita. As the Crespo family’s second proprietary mango pack house…
Continue ReadingTime to Brush Up On Ataulfo Marketing
Shortcut to success, Ataulfo Marketing 101 This is an industry geared post. Even though it is currently cold in most states and fresh snow has blanketed much of the US, spring is definitely coming. It always does and when it does mango sales increase. The way we crave comfort food in the winter is…
Continue Reading2022 Crespo Organic Season Starts!
We’ve got good news and who doesn’t love that these days! NEWS FLASH! Before the new year I gave you my big juicy predications for the 2022 Crespo Organic Mango season and so far things are ringing true. In a string of years where everything is extraordinarily complicated, this feels really good. I know challenges…
Continue ReadingWinter Off-Shore Crop Update
As we near our Mexican season, what’s happening south matters I don’t think there could be a more unusual offshore mango season than the one that is currently happening. Perhaps it’s not unusual in the grand {supply chain} scheme of things considering ports and vessel issues are one of the main problems. Currently Ecuadorian fruit,…
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