All articles by Elizabeth O'Keefe – Page 11
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ArticleCriticism for London Markets' Month
The first ever London Markets’ Month has been criticised for excluding market tenants by the New Spitalfields Market Tenants’ Association.
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ArticleSelect Lincolnshire comes to London
Select lincolnshire exhibited at The Restaurant Show 2008 at Earls Court this week for the first time, where it unveiled another first for the UK market.
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ArticleFruit and veg a winner for Makro
Cash and carry Makro is making more money then ever on its fresh produce lines, and is outperforming its rivals in fruit and vegetable sales.
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ArticleHolland takes on the Seven Summits
Wholesaler and foodservice distributor John Holland is attempting to become just the 27th Briton to complete the Seven Summits challenge.
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Rovral WG receives recommendation
With the diminishing choice of chemistry and the need to employ a sustainable resistance strategy in vegetables and salad crops, specialist agronomist Dave Bolshaw of County Crops recommends the new formulation of iprodione, Rovral WG.
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Age is just a number at Tesco
Tesco employs more than 50,000 over-50s - the equivalent of one in five of its UK workforce - the superstore announced as part of its celebrations for the government’s UK Older People’s Day on October 1.
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ArticleBreakthrough for strawberry harvesting
Midlands-based engineering design company, Tech2reality Ltd, has taken a fresh look at the commercial harvesting of strawberries and has come up with a brand new solution - a revolutionary electric harvesting rig, TEKTU T100.
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Azura tomatoes on way to UK
Franco-Moroccan salad producer Azura Group will start exporting its production to the UK this week.
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ArticleS&G launches brassica website
Syngenta has launched a new website that focuses exclusively on brassicas - brassicastoday.com
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Israel hosts world avo meeting
Israel played host to the 2008 annual meeting of AMaPwg (Avocado Marketing and Promotion working group) in the last week of September, as the first shipment of the newly Israeli avocados season arrived into Europe.
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ArticleSwedeponic UK celebrates 10th year
Lincolnshire-based Swedeponic UK has blossomed into Britain's largest supplier of living herbs after only 10 years in business.
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ArticleIsraeli herb growers under pressure
Hot weather conditions have made the last quarter a difficult period for fresh herb cultivation in Israel, according to exporter Agrexco.
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Inline Plastics makes the change
In a move to make its packaging more environment friendly, US-based Inline Plastics Corporation is converting the manufacture of containers from oriented polystyrene (OPS) to polyethylene terephtalate (PET).
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Innovation leads the way at IFE09
Leading UK exhibition organiser Fresh RM is set to challenge the way the industry thinks about innovation at the next installment of the UK’s largest and most respected food and drink trade event, IFE09.
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RPA calls out for SPS registations
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is urging growers to register for new entitlements under the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) for 2010.
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ArticleM&S sales take a downturn
Marks & Spencer has experienced the worst quarterly performance for sales since early 2005.
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FTA publishes new guide
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has published a complete guide to the 11 potential road-pricing schemes, which have been promoted by the department for transport and financed by the Transport Innovation Fund (TIF).
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ArticleBLGA launches new website
The British Leek Growers Association (BLGA) has launched a new website and a new PR campaign to run from October this year to April 09, to mark this year’s leek season.
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ArticleScotland: Beetroot off menu
Beetroot is out and bread is in, according to new detailed nutritional guidelines issued to school chefs by the Scottish government.
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ArticleNew salad brand debuts
Shropshire-based grower PDM Produce is aiming to invigorate the bagged salad category with the launch of brand Wok or Not, a mix of baby salad leaves that can be served as a salad or cooked as stirfry ingredients.