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ArticleGarden market plans at stage two
Covent Garden Market Authority has unveiled new images for The Garden at New Covent Garden Market as its second public exhibition opens this week, showing plans for the brand-new fresh produce market at The Garden with new homes, shops and open spaces on the existing Nine Elms site.
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When it comes to produce, it’s all in the presentation
Seemingly shackled with a love/hate consumer relationship, there are few vegetables that evoke more emotion than Brussels
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ArticleWholesale tension at FPJ Conference
Speakers and delegates at the inaugural FPJ Conference in Perth on Tuesday were at loggerheads as the future of Glasgow’s Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market came under the spotlight.
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ArticleStanley Peters, 65, dies
Stanley Peters, who worked in Covent Gardens old and new for 50 years, died on 17 February at the age of 65.
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ALV sees early success
Simplified procedures for importing fresh produce and cut flowers are proving an immediate winner for importers and agents with the introduction of the Automatic Licence Verification (ALV) system.
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ArticleFairtrade pineapples make way to UK
Dutch fruit export and import company Alexport has extended its range to include Fairtrade pineapples from Ghana.
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ArticleRedbridge Leicester given hefty fine
Redbridge Produce and Flowers Ltd pleaded guilty to a total of five separate breaches of the EC Marketing Standards for fresh produce for quality and labelling offences at Leicester Magistrates’ Court and was ordered to pay almost £30,000.
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ArticleGuernsey exports values rise
Exports of horticultural products from Guernsey reached £49.5 million in 2009 compared to £48.4m in 2008 and £47.3m in 2007.
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ArticleRe:fresh Awards criteria ready to download
The entry criteria for the Re:fresh Awards 2010 is now available to download at www.refresh.eu/awards2010
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Re:fresh 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award winner Glass reflects on 55 years in produce
Alick Glass was the worthy winner of the Florette Lifetime Achievement Award at Re:fresh 2009. He tells Laura Gould about the highs and lows of a career spanning more than 50 years in the fresh produce trade
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ArticleNew sprout hits M&S shelves
A new vegetable named Flower Sprout, a cross between a Brussels Sprout and a kale, is due to hit the shelves of Marks & Spencer this week.
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FPC looks forward to ALV live date
Long-awaited benefits for importers and agents from simplifying procedures for importing fresh produce and cut flowers will be realised when the Automatic Licence Verification system is implemented fully on February 16 - estimated to save the industry around £1 million each year.
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ArticleFresh produce players reveal their expectations for 2010
As the fresh produce industry gears up for 2010, FPJ catches up with leading figures from across the sector to find out their New Year’s resolutions for the industry and their expectations for the next 12 months
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Continuing to fight for a fair hearing on food miles
Navigating through the big freeze this week, with the inevitable traffic chaos on the A1, I caught the latest food debate on
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ALV system set for February
Long-awaited benefits for importers and agents from simplifying procedures for importing fresh produce and cut flowers will be realised when the Automatic Licence Verification (ALV) system is implemented fully on February 16, 2010.
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ArticleComing together
A relatively young trading country, Israel’s fresh produce industry has excelled since an agricultural agreement was signed in the 1970s, giving the Middle Eastern country free rein to export to the UK and Europe. Now, known for its vast array of products and high producing standards, the industry is going one step further. Elizabeth O’Keefe visits Israel as a new agricultural agreement is signed
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Guernsey Growers' Association may close
The Guernsey Growers' Association (GGA) could cease operations within the next two or three years.
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ArticleMinister makes markets stand
Local government minister Rosie Winterton wasted little time in her new role in charge of UK retail markets - visiting a market, addressing a conference and calling for stronger partnerships.
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ArticleIndustry welcomes market report
The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) has welcomed the new Markets 21 report which sheds light on the potential of traditional markets to contribute to local communities.
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ArticleTotal integration in North West
FPJ heads to Liverpool for the latest in our features on the Total Produce UK wholesale business and finds that the company’s North West director, Steve Webster, was quick off the mark when integrating the region’s wholesale branches under one, unified banner. Tommy Leighton reports