And now for something completely different: A deep dive into a very fraught raisin situation. They sound like a pretty dry subject. But as I was preparing for an interview with Sun-Maid’s chief executive, I found two fertile pieces of information: One was that most of the major figures in the raisin industry had been on the job for decades. The other was that the young chief executive, Harry Overly, had in his first year on the job pulled out of something called the Raisin Bargaining Association, an organization the company had been a part of for decades. “There was definitely some intimidation stuff that went down,” he said.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2019 13:07 UTC