All articles by FPJ Staff – Page 240
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ArticleMDS experience sets its graduates apart
MDS is a specialist management training organisation representing almost 30 member companies in the fresh food and produce industry. In the first of an occasional series, we take a look at how the MDS programme works, transforming university graduates into the managers of tomorrow.
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The day the ready meal dyed?
Another major food scare hits the headlines and a collective sigh of relief is heard from all of the sectors that are
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Have you outgrown your business systems?
Many businesses in the fresh produce sector have so far avoided the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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ArticleInternational floral dilemma
After a hectic Valentine’s Day demand for red roses, the arrival of Mother’s Day usually instigates a more positive reaction among members of the floriculture industry. However with a painfully short period between the two events this year, as well as the coinciding occurrence of International Women’s Day and some unusual weather patterns, some may not exactly be full of the joys of Spring, writes Elspeth Waters.
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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
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ArticleSpain tops the tree
Spain may be in the throes of one of its worst citrus seasons on record, but trade organisation Intercitrus is keeping its eye on the ball in terms of longer term citrus promotion. Association president Juan Vicente Safont explains.
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ArticleJuice loses innocence
While citrus juice has long been a staple of the modern diet, the ever-increasing market for exotic juice combinations could be stealing the limelight from the faithful orange and grapefruit. In addition, with health specialists having set juice as the latest culprit in the global obesity epidemic, juice producers may have to address their marketing strategies, writes Elspeth Waters.
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