2022年12月20日

纽约，纽约——美国最大的垂直农业公司Bowery Farming宣布，将继续扩大其领导团队，聘请Robert Ybarra担任业务发展总监，向新业务开发副总裁Elayne Dudley汇报。Ybarra为他的新职位带来了在零售、制造、采购和分销方面丰富的食品和农产品行业经验。在Bowery, Ybarra将开发新的杂货零售商关系，以进一步扩大在全国各地的商店中获得更新鲜，更安全，无农药的保护产品。Robert Ybarra加入Bowery之前，他在HEB工作了30多年，担任农产品销售和销售总监。最近，他担任Villita Avocados(美国前五大墨西哥鳄梨进口商之一)的业务发展总监，在那里他率先与大型零售商建立了新的商业机会。此前，他曾担任Rouses, Inc.和Coborn 's Inc.的生产总监。Ybarra的领导能力得到了美国食品杂货协会的认可，他被The Packer(一家领先的农产品行业出版物)选为25强行业领导者。伊巴拉是德克萨斯人，在布朗斯维尔的德克萨斯大学获得了MBA学位。“这是鲍厄里前所未有的增长时期，因为我们已经启动了气候智能型农业的下一个篇章，并在东北以外的新农场上破土动工，”鲍厄里首席商务官Katie Seawell说。“随着我们继续在全国扩张，罗伯特在扩大零售合作伙伴关系方面的作用将进一步推动鲍厄里的承诺，即重新构想新鲜食品供应链，并帮助建立具有当地新鲜农产品来源的弹性社区。” This appointment comes at a time of accelerated growth for Bowery. The company is on track to double its number of farms in 2023 and has doubled revenue for the second year in a row. Bowery is now available in over 1,400 stores and e-commerce partners from Walmart to Whole Foods and Amazon, and continues to be an industry leader with its expansion beyond leafy greens and into new categories of pesticide-free produce including strawberries and salad kits. Bowery is growing food wherever it is needed. ### About Bowery Bowery, the largest vertical farming company in the United States, designs and builds smart indoor environments to reimagine the future of food. Through its network of smart indoor farms and proprietary end-to-end technology, Bowery is transforming the entire fresh food supply chain to be simpler, safer, and vastly more sustainable. Bowery’s farms are 100x+ more productive than traditional agriculture while using a fraction of the resources – all enabled by leading-edge technology. Bowery is scaling quickly with five farms in operation, including a state-of-the-art R&D and innovation farms for pioneering indoor Agriculture Science, and two commercial farms under development that will more than double the company’s total production by 2023. Bowery’s brand has been in the market since 2016 and is currently sold in over 1,400 locations including Whole Foods, Ahold Delhaize, Amazon, Safeway/Albertsons, and Walmart.