Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4494
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ArticleTrade recognises career of Jacques Onona
The Florette Lifetime Achievement award went to the accomplished and acclaimed Jacques Onona.
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ArticleFamily business gets Re:fresh retail award
The award for Independent Retailer of the Year, sponsored by Foods From Spain, went to family business Garsons. Garsons has two garden centre and farm shop locations, featuring local produce and the best speciality food, at Esher in Surrey and Titchfield in Hampshire, and has been led by five generations of the Thompson family.
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ArticleTates lands c-store prize
Tates was named the Foods from Spain, Convenience Retailer of the Year for its impressive development of its fruit and vegetable section.
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ArticleRe:fresh treble for Waitrose
Waitrose has won the Foods from Spain Multiple Retailer of the Year at Re:fresh for the third time in four years. Obviously standing out from the crowd, Waitrose was singled out as the UK’s favourite retailer in the Consumer Satisfaction Index 2007 survey, scoring highly on quality, ambience, layout and customer service.
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ArticleO'Connor clinches young hort trophy
Jimmy O’Connor has been crowned Young Horticulturist of the Year in the Institute of Horticulture’s annual competition.
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ArticleAlbert Bartlett gets Packer of the Year award
Albert Bartlett has won the FPC Packer of the Year award at Re:fresh. A third-generation family business of more than 50 years standing, Albert Bartlett is the UK’s largest grower of root vegetables, supplying the population with one sixth of its total intake of potatoes, carrots, onions and parsnips.
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ArticleStubbins Pole takes young person prize
Pawel Skarpetowski of Stubbins was the proud winner of the MorePeople Young Person of the Year award at Re:fresh. Skarpetowski was born in 1982 in the rural Polish village Ostrów Maz. He grew up on his family’s farm and helped his grandmother run the farm shop, the local’s favourite destination for fresh fruit, salads and vegetables.
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ArticleHolland the top wholesaler
JR Holland has won the Capespan sponsored Wholesalers of the Year award at Re:fresh. A first-time winner of this award, JR Holland had not previously entered, and felt that due to continued success and a particularly good last 12 months, the time was right to throw its hat into the ring.
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ArticleJR Holland named overall trader of the year
This year’s Re:fresh Overall Produce Trader of the Year, as sponsored by Tesco, is the JR Holland Group.
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ArticleCover your tracks
Unless you have spent the last few months living in a cave - which, incidentally, would be a very environmentally friendly mode of existence - then the notion of a carbon footprint will hardly be an alien concept. Laura Gould takes a look at what the UK produce industry is doing to reduce the size of its own tread - and also considers how our environmental decisions could impact on growers further afield.
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ArticleChilean kiwis are on the up
Long considered New Zealand’s poor relation, Chilean kiwifruit is now on a par with that of its competitor due to massive improvements in the industry’s standards and fruit quality. Decofrut estimates that Chile will export more than 156 million kilos of kiwifruit this season, meaning that Chile’s global export of the fruit has grown by 17.4 per cent in the last four years. Elizabeth O’Keefe looks at what competition in this sector means for the UK market.
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ArticleNow for something completely different
The pressure is on the fresh produce sector to come up with new ideas. The whole industry has been forced to look ahead and has shown itself to have the capacity. Chris Lyddon talks to Martin Evans of Freshgro, who is also chairman of the British Carrot Growers’ Association (BCGA), for his views on the way in which the vegetable sector has taken on the challenge of reinventing its image.
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ArticleConference organisers address delegate needs to put bums on seats
A reasonable number of FPJ readers will be reading this either at the Re:fresh Conference or having been to the event. But the vast majority of you will read this issue having chosen not to attend. Just what do delegates want from a conference? Tommy Leighton tries to find out.
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ArticleImpending arrival of whole foods has rivals diving for cover
US retailer Whole Foods Market has been subject to both praise and criticism for daring to bring its organic superstore to UK’s shores. But is this chain betraying the organic ideal, as some claim, or is it just that its competitiors feel threatened by its presence? Elizabeth O’Keefe goes where others fear to tread.
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Adam Bernstein hosts FPJ’s monthly spotlight on the legislation that affects your business
Adam Bernstein hosts FPJ’s monthly spotlight on the legislation that affects your business, and how you can use it to your advantage. This month, Richard Smyth and Nicola Close of DLA Piper look at changes to EC regulations on driver hours.
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Re:fresh touches topical matters
I hope you all enjoyed the Spring Bank Holiday and a much-needed shower or two following one of the driest months on
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Jerseys play well in season characterised by colour
I am always delighted when the Jersey season kicks off. Tesco’s 500g pack, priced at £2.49, bears a smart gold and
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Not an ounce of hope for change
An apparent Brussels u-turn on the imposed prohibition of the use of pounds and ounces in produce labelling could have some
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Improved food on the horizon
Organised by University of Cambridge Research Services Division and supported by Cambridge Enterprise, the next Cambridge Horizon Seminar will be entitled Foodomics: Why we eat what we eat and what’s on the menu.