Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4669
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ArticleStrong shallot performance
The shallot industry reported strong sales in the run-up to the Christmas with penetration up to 12.9 per cent - a 21.6 per cent rise on last year.
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ArticleParripak ups exotic offer
Vegetable processor Parripak Foods is offering a new range of exotic mushrooms.
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Italian show promises new varieties
The Fieragricola exhibition in Verona on February 9-12 will feature masses of new varieties of a range of products including pears, apples and kiwifruit.
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Florette ad success
A pre-Christmas advertising push by Florette saw a boost in sales of 28 per cent, the supplier claimed.
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Coventry greengrocer attacked
A Coventry greengrocer is recovering in hospital after being attacked in a nightclub.
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Northerners ahead on healthy eating
Newcastle is the pomegranate capital of the UK according to a survey by Sainsbury’s.
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ArticleNZ hort outlook "tough"
The outlook for New Zealand horticulture in 2006 is bleak with kiwifruit one of the few products bucking the trend.
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ArticleChantenay - a taste of the past
Notts growers have launched a website to help promote the Chantenay carrot with the strapline ‘the way carrots used to taste’.
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Bureaucratic nightmare for organics
Organic imports are being held up at UK ports by a “bureaucratic nightmare”, according to one importer.
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ArticleBach's Garden sympathy
Defra minister Lord Bach has invited New Covent Garden tenants to enter direct dialogue with him over the future of the market.
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ArticleSainsbury's puts UK avos on trial
Sainsbury’s is claiming to be the first to attempt commercial production of avocados in the UK.
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ArticleNew year resolve
At times the fresh produce industry may seem very small and well-connected but the links rely on a staggeringly large number of individuals with very diverse responsibilities. As another new year dawns, many will be taking stock and preparing targets for the weeks and months ahead. Elspeth Waters caught up with six of the people involved in the industry, both in the UK and abroad, to find out what they remember of last year and what they are expecting from 2006.
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ArticleMint making money
A Chilean by birth, with an Italian father and Irish mother, Renzo Antognoli O’Ryan was living happily in Spain when a conversation with the uncle of his Colombian wife dramatically changed his life. Four years on, Antognoli is running Ultraroma, the biggest exporter of aromatic herbs out of Colombia.
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ArticleChilled atmosphere enters new dawn
Companies all over the world have benefited from major advances made in cold storage technology. Doris Lee Butterworth reports.
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No easy solutions in the land of opportunity
In less than 10 years Redbridge Holdings has grown from a £100 million business to a £250m operation. Chief executive Denis Punter, talks to Ed Bedington about the issues he feels are most important to the industry and how Redbridge is responding to them.
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Trade closes in on proximity
A very happy new year from Rungis to all FPJ readers. And what better time than this for Mystic Philippe to look into his
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Industry needs to plot safe course
Plotting the course of the fresh produce industry over the next 12 months is, to my mind, rather like reviewing any one of the
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Bach invite strikes the right chord
It is encouraging to report some good news from the wholesale sector to start 2006. While only the naive would expect a
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ArticleHealth and preference spurs for grapes
There is no denying the popularity of grapes with consumers, a simple look at the figures shows how much the category has climbed in the last few years.
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ArticleMinding the gaps
The key issue when it comes to the supply of grapes is cutting out air freight, says Neil Denny, from Richard Hochfeld Group.While the grape supply calendar has settled down over the last three to four years, through the hard work of suppliers to even out the flow of product throughout the 52 weeks of the year, there remain some sticky points, and the industry is determined to iron them out says Denny.