All Flowers articles – Page 58
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ArticleGreenery makes new appointment
Dutch produce marketeer The Greenery announces who will replace Kees de Wit when he retires next year.
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ArticleGarden in the black
New Covent Garden Market has announced an improvement in business for 2004 despite difficult trading conditions.
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Article110 years and counting
The FPJ has come a long way since its first issue was published on October 5 1895. Today’s relaunch coincides with our 110th birthday, so we thought it appropriate to give our modern-day readers an insight into the ways the Journal in its various guises has reflected the changes of this great industry through a century and more. Some things have altered surprisingly little.
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Online florist signs up for rewards
An online florist has signed up to an internet reward scheme in a bid to offer its customers better value.
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M&S man to address US industry
Andrew Sharp of M&S will address delegates at the PMA International Fresh Summit, in Atlanta next month.
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Floriculture gets Fair-er
A three-year information campaign aiming to persuade producers of floriculture to invest in sustainable cultivation in Europe has officially kicked off.
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ArticleMarkets gang up on TfL
London’s market tenants are digging their heels in over the city’s congestion charge and stepping up efforts to force an exemption for the food trade.
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ArticleSomerfield doubles up
Somerfield is celebrating again, after landing its second fresh produce award of the year.
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ArticleHolland expansion
Gateshead wholesaler JR Holland is expanding its business despite supermarket competition on fresh produce and flowers.
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ArticleFPC sets down the challenge
The Fresh Produce Consortium has issued the entire industry with a challenge: to put its collective hand in its pocket and fund a PR campaign to drive consumption of fruit and vegetables in the UK.
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ArticleWUWM opens doors to retail
The World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) has opened its doors to retail markets.
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Nursery closure rocks Guernsey
One of Guernsey’s largest rose nurseries has been forced to close due to stifling foreign competition.
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Keelings appoints Mulligan
Irish fruit and veg giant Keelings has announced the appointment of Gavin Mulligan as commercial director to the Keelings Group board, with responsibility for Keelings Multiples Ireland.
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ArticleIn search of Fairtrade
Fairtrade is purportedly going from strength-to-strength, striding relentlessly on towards a brighter future for growers, retailers and consumers. However, it appears that Fairtrade fresh produce is getting somewhat overlooked and under-represented in UK supermarkets, Mark Bigault reports.
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ArticleEurepGAP conference to set standards
The sixth global conference aimed at setting standards in safe and sustainable agriculture will take place in Paris next month.
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China targets international floral market
The Chinese floriculture industry has signalled its intention to expand into the international flower market.
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ArticleMarketing group expands
Award winning marketing organisation The Quintus Partnership Ltd has signed up three more production companies, bringing the group’s grower membership to nine.
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ArticleKeep it green
Global warming, pesticides, wildlife threatened by extinction...barely a day goes by without some reference to how farmers are destroying the environment. But this is only one side of the coin. The horticultural industry is increasingly evolving to promote long-term sustainability through environment-friendly practices, but the positives are simply glossed over in the quest for a front-page scandal. Elspeth Waters reports.
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Flower campaign's £800,000 promotion
The flower sector is set for a further £800,000 marketing boost with the extension of a successful advertising campaign.
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Greenhouse handover in Gaza
An internationally backed deal to hand over Israeli greenhouses in Gaza to the Palestinians has gone ahead.