Meldungen aus Europa – Page 3835
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ArticleOlympic Food reveals expansion plan
Massive new distribution centre planned for construction in Barendrecht as group targets significant growth during the coming years
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ArticleSnow and rain cause damage in Italy
CIA reports significant damage to fruit and vegetable production in several parts of the country due to adverse conditions
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ArticleChiquita in shareholder settlement
Multinational reaches 'favourable' agreement regarding four shareholder lawsuits filed in 2007
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ArticleRecord strawberry crop for California
Aided by warm, dry conditions and some new high-yielding varieties, California growers produced a record strawberry crop in 2009
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ArticleCoag sues Carrefour over label 'fraud'
Spanish agricultural organisation Coag claims Carrefour and Agroatlas 'mislabelled' Moroccan green beans as Spanish products
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ArticleMagnit plots record investment
Russian retailer to expand its reach this year with a US$1bn investment in store openings and logistical improvements
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Co-op and Somerfield in dual-brand campaign
The Co-operative Group launched a multi-million pound advertising campaign to communicate the coming together of The Co-operative and Somerfield food businesses.
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ArticleRotterdam posts lower yearly throughput
Despite lower year-on-year volumes, the Dutch port is showing signs of recovery following the difficulties experienced in 2009
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ArticleTweet tweet: making the most of the social networking media revolution
The media world does not change very often but, when it does, the change tends to be major. We are in a period of flux now, thanks to the explosion of social networking media, but it is apparent that a lot of businesses are off the pace. Marketing consultant Paul Clapham reports
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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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ArticleSeed breeders bring innovation into 2010
At the very beginning of the supply chain, seed breeders work continuously alongside growers, retailers and consumers to develop new fresh produce varieties and concepts for the ever-changing UK marketplace. Elizabeth O’Keefe takes a look at where the fresh produce industry is heading from the roots up
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ArticleGrape sector battles source-switch struggle
What had been a fairly docile market sprang to life in the last quarter, as a severe shortage in Brazilian product caused major headaches for UK importers and triggered a swift turn towards sources in Africa. Alex Lawson reports
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Newcomers sort out their niche in produce category
There are times when, while discovering the more unusual products on the retail shelves, a decision has to be taken as to
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ArticleFruit Logistica builds on role as key industry destination
Gérald Lamusse is global brand manager of Fruit Logistica, the annual fresh produce trade fair that draws the great and good of the world’s fruit and vegetable industry to Berlin every February. With this year’s event less than a month away, he talks to Laura Gould about how the exhibition has become such a crucial fixture in the international fresh produce calendar
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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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New Year, but no new answers from the top
It’s very difficult to get that fired up by the government’s new Food 2030 strategy. As DEFRA has waited until
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Irish grower's anger over oil spray
An Irish grower claims his Christmas market was “wiped out” by an oil spray that contaminated crops in north county Dublin, the centre of the Republic’s horticulture industry.
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ArticleFlorida handling cold snap
A cold air mass over central Florida was welcomed this week by grapefruit growers, as orange producers further north in the state bemoaned the low temperatures.
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ArticleGovernment defends food plan
The government has vehemently defended its new overarching food strategy amid criticisms that it is not incisive and is “Soviet” in style.
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ArticleIran’s fruit rejections spur protest
Pakistani fruit exporters have protested the Iranian rejection of unrefrigerated cross-border shipments