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Green light for Co-op's £45m depot
21st May 2019, 06:30 London
Green light for Co-op's £45m depot
The supermarket's new distribution centre will serve London and the South East
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- Morrisons rolls out plastic-free produce areas
  Morrisons rolls out plastic-free produce areas
  Move affects 127 different varieties of fruit and veg and follows trial that saw 40 per cent increase in loose sales
- Halls rewards top graduates in South Africa
  Halls rewards top graduates in South Africa
  Supplier gives its annual HL Hall Gold Medal Award to two students from University of Mpumalanga for academic excellence in agriculture
- Early promise for new white asparagus variety
  Early promise for new white asparagus variety
  Vittorio has garnered significant interest in Northern Europe thanks to agronomic characteristics, according to breeder Global Plant Genetics
- Microchip implants could order our food
  Microchip implants could order our food
  Sainsbury's Future of Food report makes some bold predictions for a brave new world of fresh produce
- Fyffes cuts back on packaging
  Fyffes cuts back on packaging
  Fyffes Ireland has introduced a new sustainable and fully recyclable banana band
- Organic producers rise in 2018
  Organic producers rise in 2018
  Organic growers are on the up despite continued decrease in the amount of land growing organic produce, new data shows
- Spar UK appoints Louise Hoste as new MD
  Spar UK appoints Louise Hoste as new MD
  Hoste comes with wealth of international retail experience at Walmart, Asda and Co-op
- Waitrose unveils new delivery partners
  Waitrose unveils new delivery partners
  Months after Ocado switched to M&S, Waitrose announce it will treble its online business with Today Development Partners

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- Subscribers onlyThe grass is greener
  A heritage crop, asparagus is enjoying its own renaissance with high demand from shoppers. A new brand in town will add to the optimism, but there are hardships unique to the vegetable
- Subscribers onlyBelgian boom
  Key UK supplier Belgium is making the best of the Brexit uncertainty and believes its quality offer will keep winning it customers
- Subscribers onlyCauli calling: A classic veg reinvented
  Comment: FPJ's US correspondent Amy Cross looks at how Americans have embraced the diversity of cauliflower
- Subscribers onlyBoosting berries
  Despite the sales success of soft fruit in recent years, the sector has not been resting on its laurels. Various efforts are being made to generate new eating occasions and make more of berries’ nutritional benefits
- Subscribers onlyRecycling the rulebook
  The UK is set for the biggest shake-up to packaging regulations for more than two decades, and the government is on course to switch to a new model for extended producer responsibility. Fred Searle speaks to Adrian Hawkes, policy director of Valpak
- Subscribers onlyFresh ideas in packaging
  From compostable punnets to shelf life-extending film, the fresh produce sector is witnessing an explosion of environmentally friendly packaging innovations. Fred Searle picks out five of the best
- Subscribers onlyThe Three Rs of Packaging
  The tomato category provides a case study of how to successfully embrace the trend towards more sustainable packaging solutions, writes Gilad Sadan, managing director of Navi Co Global
- Subscribers onlyPlastic purge
  As supermarkets fall over themselves to trial plastic-free initiatives, Michael Barker visits a retailer leading the charge to take plastic entirely off the shelves
- Subscribers onlyThis time it's personal
  The way we choose food and fresh produce could radically change as technology opens up deeper understandings of diet and nutrition accessible to the public
- Subscribers onlyPositive thinking
  Packaging specialist Coveris has recently opened its new Pack Positive centre to tackle the big issues facing the industry. Michael Barker hears all about it from Rick Hughes, the company’s produce sales director
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