Carey Bob Carey, former longtime president of the Produce Marketing Association, died Nov. 29. He was 82. Carey had been CEO of the group for 38 years, until his retirement in 1996. A biography on the PMA website credited him with leading the association out of near bankruptcy when he assumed leadership in 1958, and then transforming PMA into a thriving international organization with an annual budget of $8 million at the time of his retirement. Carey's former group remembers him for his leadership in moving PMA from a small association focused on product packaging to a vertically integrated group bringing produce buyers and sellers together to focus on marketing… Read More