All Herbs articles – Page 36
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Growing taste for squash
UK consumers are developing a taste for sweet potato and butternut squash products, according to specialist fresh and exotic ingredients supplier Beacon Foods.
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ArticleOrganic seed gathers pace
Organic seed producers face similar challenges to organic growers. As a result, good quality organic seed is significantly more expensive to produce. Sue Jupe reports.
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ArticleThe new glory days
In its heyday, the historic wholesale market at Borough in London was a hive of activity with over 250 wholesale companies in operation. Though the glory days of wholesaling have since disappeared, the seven remaining companies and the retail market, which opened in 1998, are now enjoying the buzz of national and international recognition, recently crowned with the best market award from the Observer Food magazine, writes Anabella de Sousa.
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ArticleMandar revamps its herb offer
Rungis wholesale group Mandar is revamping some of its well known product range, mostly its fresh herbs offer.
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ArticleArava gets technological
The introduction of a computerised system has paid dividends for one winter salad producer.
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ArticleNature does work
Cargill Dow is the first company to offer a family of commercially available polymers derived 100 per cent from annually renewable resources with the cost and performance to compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibres. It has achieved a breakthrough into the fresh produce industry by applying its unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create a proprietary polylactide polymer, which is marketed under the NatureWorks PLA and Ingeo fibre brand names. Tommy Leighton spoke to the company.
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Who’s headed for pastures new?
Sainsbury’s has appointed Christian Hickey to take over as stone-fruit and tropical-fruit buyer, following the
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ArticleAgrexco on top form
As reported in last week’s Journal, Agrexco’s UK office has just completed its most successful year ever, increasing turnover by 25 per cent to £97 million. Tommy Leighton visited Carmel House and the port of Marseille to find out some of the reasons behind a rare success story in a tough 2004 marketplace, and look forward to more of the same in the next 12 months.
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ArticleVessels burst into life
Agrexco is reaping the rewards of a significant investment in two ships Ecofresh and Biotop. Tommy Leighton visited Marseille to talk to Agrexco’s general manager in the French port Jean Pierre Pachy.
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ArticleIsraeli impetus
The days are getting shorter and cooler in the UK, but it is at this time of year that Israeli producers have the biggest window to supply the UK with its winter range of produce. Anabella de Sousa talks to four Israeli companies about their plans for the winter season ahead.
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ArticleAgrexco turnover soars in UK
Agrexco, the largest exporter of fruit, vegetables and flowers from Israel, has registered a 25 per cent increase in its UK turnover in the last 12 months.
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ArticleHealth not environment is organic driver
Sainsbury's research has found health issues are more of a driver in the purchase of organics than concern for the environment.
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ArticleThe cute face of baby veg
Mini produce lines have maximum appeal to consumers looking for the latest novelty trends. And as development continues and product moves increasingly into the mainstream arena, have baby vegetables finally come of age? Emma Hatfield reports.
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ArticleOrganic herbs get Essex boost
Year-round organic potted herb production received a boost as a new 1.1 acre site at North Weald, Essex came into production this month.
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ArticleNew hub for Waitrose
As part of a Waitrose supply partner project aimed at reducing costs through supplier collaboration, Produce World has opened Frupac...
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ArticleBudgens perfects spud mix
With healthy sales of prepared potato products, Budgens is focussing on convenience and the meal solution concept as it aims to make fresh potatoes more appealing to consumers. Emma Hatfield reports.
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Article5-a-day the Humber way
Humber VHB has instigated a Greenery initiative to teach schoolchildren the merits of eating more fruits and vegetables.
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ArticleSainsbury's pushes mint in June
Sainsbury's has announced it will be focusing on apple mint as its June herb of the month.
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Herb Society pleas to save plants
The Herb Society of Great Britain is campaigning to save medicinal plant species from extinction.
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ArticleWork to rules
Labour has never been a more pertinent issue in the fresh produce industry. From the well-documented difficulties of procuring seasonal pickers to a general decline in skills - many within the industry face a huge challenge to both recruit and maintain adequate levels of staff. Emma Hatfield reports.