Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4724
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ArticleEngland expects... a good top fruit season
The English Cox crop is expected to be 20-25 per cent higher in volume this season
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ArticleWorld first in tomato vending
A new idea from Belgium is bringing produce closer to consumers and helping them achieve their 5-A-DAY.
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Apple market pressure mounts
With just weeks to go before the harvest of European apples begins, the apple market in the UK is under pressure from old season stock and southern hemisphere supplies.
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Asda staff vote for strike
Asda staff at a depot in Washington, near Sunderland, are set to go on strike over a pay dispute.
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Morrisons sells last stores
Morrisons has completed the final sale of stores required by competition bosses following its takeover of Safeway.
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ArticleBetter communication needed for asparagus
There needs to be greater communication throughout the supply chain when it comes to marketing asparagus to avoid consumer disappointment, British suppliers claim.
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ArticleUS team reveals new pear
A new fire-blight resistant pear has been unveiled by US researchers.
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ArticleBerries burst with health
With the UK berry season well under way, production and sales are looking healthy across the category, as consumers increasingly look beyond the well-loved Wimbledon favourite. Meanwhile a new Scottish brand has been tickling more than a few tastebuds across the retail sector, and has its sights set on additional markets. Elspeth Waters reports.
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ArticleA virtual spectator
Some of the warmest applause heard at the Re:fresh Awards on May 5 was reserved for the announcement that Douglas Kemp had won the event’s Florette lifetime achievement award in recognition of his contribution to the development of berry fruit marketing. He talks to David Shapley about a varied and colourful career.
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ArticleAnother year, another crop
It’s still early doors, as Big Ron Atkinson used to say, but it’s nevertheless high time to start looking ahead to the next English apple season. Tommy Leighton talks to ebullient English Apples & Pears chief executive Adrian Barlow for an advanced view on the 2005/6 campaign.
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ArticleSource to reckon with
Martin de la Fuente has been in the Tesco apple and pear buying hot-seat for six months and taken on board the challenge of increasing the UK’s number one retailer’s sales of English fruit by 100 per cent in three years. Tommy Leighton talks to him about Tesco’s stance on supporting the English industry.
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ArticleSadler sizes up
Andy Sadler, managing director of English top-fruit marketing desk Norman Collett, a sponsor of next week’s Fruit Focus, tells Tommy Leighton that growers are depending on reasonable returns this season to compensate for a poor time in the last 12 months.
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ArticleChile aims for sustainability
In our fourth profile on kiwifruit, Isabel Quiroz of Decofrut tells Elspeth Waters about Chile’s revival in an increasingly competitive market, looking at varietal development and the organic sector.
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Snack attack
Recent soaring summer temperatures seem to have had a remarkable effect on fruit and vegetables as far as snacking products
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Inquiry could have serious implications
As the UK fruit industry gathers to discuss its own swings and roundabouts at Fruit Focus next week, the French fresh produce
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ArticleFirst Middle East Congress goes to Dubai
The Middle East Congress 2005, organised by Eurofruit Magazine, is a new conference and networking event for the international fresh produce business in the Middle East.
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UK shopfitting associations join international body
Two shopfitting representative bodies have re-joined global forum.
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ArticleSoft-fruit growers fined
Four defendants have been fined a total of £80,000 and ordered to pay costs, following the deaths of two Polish workers on a Berkshire fruit farm.
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Israel greenhouse settlement
Israel's Ministry of Agriculture announced it will help Gush Katif farmers move their greenhouses to the new settlements.
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ArticleChilean round table - take 3
Importers from around the world are again being invited to participate in Chilean grower federation Fedefruta's annual business round table.