Banana news archive – Page 167
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ArticleEC banana regime revised
Preferential access for banana producers from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries will be maintained under latest proposals for a revised banana import regime unveiled on April 16 by the European Commission.
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ArticleAgrexco’s Granot designs
Agrexco has formed key relationships with growers within the Granot Group in Israel’s Hadera region. Growers here joined forces as an agricultural co-operative to be able to make an impact in the European market and are working hard to innovate and make further in-roads. John Broy reports.
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ArticleStepac provides scientific answer
In this week’s focus on packaging Stepac reveals scientific research results, Amcor discusses improvement in modified atmosphere packaging, Prepack Systems unveils its D-pack and Leading Edge continues to drive retailer promotions.
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Brand new way to market
Spotting the news last week that use of the famous blue and white Cape brand will be restricted to South African fruit, I
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ArticleChiquita scoops award
Chiquita Brands International has won the 2004 Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award for its Nuevo San Juan home-ownership project for its banana workers in Honduras.
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ArticleWindwards moving forward
Six months since pulling out of the Banana Group, Windwards Bananas has become less reliant on sales of loose bananas in the UK and is successfully developing its own arrangements with individual retailers.
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ArticlePIP at the post
The Pesticides Initiative Programme (PIP), run by fresh produce interprofessional association COLEACP on behalf of the European Commission and the group of African and Caribbean Producers (ACP) states, has reached its halfway point. The five-year PIP began in July 2001 and is scheduled to end in July 2006. COLEACP director Catherine Guichard tells Tommy Leighton about progress to date and her hopes for the PIP between now and completion.
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ArticleExotics supplier looks to expand UK market
Ghanaian-based HS Investments Ltd, pineapple, papaya and mango producer, is looking for UK importers.
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ArticleSchool scheme gets thumbs up
The National Diet and Nutrition Survey published in June 2000 made uncomfortable reading. One child in five ate no fruit whatsoever and since 1983 children’s consumption of fruit and vegetables had been in a continual state of decline. In response, the National School Fruit Scheme was launched with the aim of providing free school fruit to more than two million children between the ages of four to six by 2004. Emma Hatfield reports on its progress.
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ArticleBananas in the firing line as delegation visits Costa Rica
A delegation from Britain and Ireland leaves for Costa Rica on Wednesday (March 24) to visit banana plantations where owners, faced with declining revenues, are reported to have slashed wages by up to 40 per cent and axed 11,000 jobs in the last three years.
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ArticleChiquita in Sheerness announcement
Medway Ports and Chiquita have announced an agreement to build a banana ripening facility at the port of Sheerness.
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ArticleA fair chance
In just 10 years since its launch, Fairtrade has grown to accommodate more than 250 products. Emma Hatfield investigates the increasing role of fresh produce as ethical trading makes the leap from minority to mainstream.
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Metric Martyr dies
A greengrocer whose stubborn refusal to abandon imperial weights and measures led to him being dubbed a Metric Martyr has died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 39.
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ArticleA fair chance of success
The first of this month’s focus on exotics looks at the launch of Fairtrade Fortnight and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Fairtrade mark, with bananas under the brand now making up four per cent of total sales of the fruit in the UK. Meanwhile Redbridge is seeing its exotic offer go from strength to strength due to changing consumer tastes.
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ArticleReefers make waves
Reefer shipping is once again making waves in the produce industry as technological advancements and increasing trade create a greater sense of buoyancy. Welcome news then for a sector that has long been warned against complacency. Emma Hatfield reports.
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Fyffes urges EC to restrict banana imports
Fyffes has urged the European Commission to restrict the size of the import quotas awarded to suppliers when the 10 new members join the EU’s banana regime on May 1.
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ArticleLeading Edge produces Tesco's Fairtrade labels
Leading Edge has produced a new booklet label that will feature on the new range of Tesco Fairtrade roses.
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ArticleFyffes reports 2003 profit
Fyffes has reported an increase in both turnover and profit for the year ended December 31 2003.
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ArticleTesco launches own-label Fairtrade range
The UK’s number one retailer has launched an extensive own-label Fairtrade range to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight.
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ArticleDirect market-ing
Supplier rationalisation, according to 52 per cent of respondents to a recent freshinfo.com poll, will have the biggest effect on the industry in 2004. It has inarguably already had a major impact on countless companies at all levels of the supply chain. Some of those affected have taken matters into their own hands and forsaken the large volume customers for a more direct route to the consumer - farmers’ markets. Tommy Leighton talks to Cheryl Cohen of London Farmers’ Markets, and producer Peter Clarke, whose P&J Clarke has chosen to channel 80 per cent of its fruit and vegetables through this part of the system.