The company was commended for achieving a service level to Tesco of 99.884 per cent and that it regularly topped the retailer’s quality measurement charts for mushroom suppliers.
In financial terms, mushrooms have not been a particularly healthy sector in the recent past. But because of a result of its efforts Greyfriars has seen its weekly sales rise 59 per cent in 2003 and monthly profit performance 98 per cent.
Resistance is important as the fight against ToBRFV continues, but other traits such as taste, shelf-life, colour and yield are also crucial given retail and consumer preferences
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