Citrus news archive – Page 226
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ArticleCheck out Fairtrade
The advent of Fairtrade Fortnight provides a prime opportunity for insights into a rapidly developing sector. However, behind the scenes the Fairtrade Foundation, along with many retailers and suppliers, is actively promoting the concept on a daily basis in the hope that ethical trading will continue to impact the lives of UK consumers long after the two weeks are up. Elspeth Waters reports.
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ArticleA scheme to change lives
In the first week of a month-long profile on the Schools Fruit and Vegetable Scheme Elspeth Waters looks at the governing bodies behind the scheme, its latest developments and the targets in place for the future.
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Florida growers appeal for cash in canker fight
Florida citrus producers are looking for $117 million in federal funds to fight citrus canker.
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ArticleArgentineans plan early lemon start
Argentinean lemon growers are likely to begin harvesting two weeks ahead of a normal season, on around March 15.
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ArticleUK retailers need to share more
A South African supplier is calling on UK retailers to bring more to the party when it comes to the concept of partnership.
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ArticleAre you exposed to weather risk?
Weather is the oldest risk factor that affected the first agricultural pioneers. Yet many managers have just learned to accept weather uncertainty as a given, and live with its impact on their businesses. However, with a growing weather financial market and a variety of weather services and instruments now available, can you keep blaming it on the weather any longer? Anabella de Sousa reports.
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ArticlePenetration rise masks static sales
While the citrus category is not exactly static, there is not much in TNS retail figures to get suppliers or their customers dancing in the aisles. Articles later on in this supplement also highlight limited movement in the performance of the wholesale, foodservice and processing markets. In comparison with a few of its fresh produce compatriots, however, the UK citrus market can probably feel relatively pleased that the trend is moving sideways rather than downwards. Tommy Leighton reports.
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ArticleUK still satsuma saviour
Satsumas have been the focus of much attention in recent months following the Save Our Satsumas campaign launched by Tesco and its category supplier Muñoz Mehadrin UK in April last year. The UK has become the principal market for the fruit but with an alleged increasing preference across Europe for less seedy, stronger tasting clementines, satsumas were rumoured to be facing possible extinction. Elspeth Waters reports.
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ArticleJP’s creative juices flow
Jamaica Producers Fruit Distributors (JPFD) is best-known as a banana supplier, but its work in citrus takes in the retail and juicing categories, as well as playing a significant role in the National School Fruit & Vegetable Scheme (NSFVS). Tommy Leighton reports.
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ArticleAgrexco looks to Peru
The performance of Israeli’s citrus fruit in the UK continues to improve. Agrexco aims to maintain this position and has joined forces with a Peruvian grower to ensure a continuous supply-base, reports Anabella de Sousa.
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ArticleWholesalers widen their outlook
Spanish citrus still dominates the supply into the UK’s wholesale markets but importers are increasingly looking at what other countries have to offer, writes Anabella de Sousa.
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ArticleVAT stunts foodservice potential
The foodservice sector has become a profitable area of growth for citrus in prepared product and in both segmented and fresh juice forms. But whole fruit citrus sales to the foodservice market are not keeping pace - and the VAT man has something to do with that. Tony Leighton reports.
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ArticleSutton the Lona ranger
South African citrus exporter Lona Trading was founded in 1996 as a vegetable exporter, but quickly made its mark as a specialist exporter of fresh South African fruit. Even before deregulation of the country’s fruit industry, the firm prospered and had grown into one of South Africa’s largest exporters of fresh produce. An introspective and self-analytical policy, which aimed to meet the needs of rapidly changing global markets, demanded that the firm reconstitute itself into separate fruit business units within the Lona structure, and eventually to focus 100 per cent on citrus. Director Derek Sutton talks to Tommy Leighton.
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ArticleFlorida counts cost of hurricanes
Mother Nature dealt a harsh blow to Florida last year when a spate of hurricanes caused waves of devastation to the citrus