Top Tomato

REVIEW SUMMARY
Industry. Agriculture
Company. Lipman
Key. Agriculture companies that control both the farming and the packing can remain competitive.

Florida's biggest tomato producer is about to get bigger.

Lipman, the fourth-generation family business also known as Six L's, has hired its first outside CEO to grow the company. In September, the Immokalee-based agriculture company hired Kent Shoemaker, 49, who most recently was chief operating officer of FreshPoint, a division of food-distribution goliath Sysco.