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ArticleProduce bucks price trend
Supermarkets are using fresh produce price fluctuations strategically to incentivise increasingly disloyal shoppers, despite a background of rising costs and prices of other core items.
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Organic alliance unveils summer line-up
The Organic Growers’ Alliance (OGA) has a busy summer programme of events lined up, including visits to small and large box schemes and a seminar on machinery for intensive organic producers.
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ArticleSunMoon Food Company expands
Sunmoon Food Co – formerly known as FHTK – has embarked on a series of new initiatives as it continues its revival from near bankruptcy in 2007 under a management team appointed last July.
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ACP countries angered by EU banana proposals
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations have claimed the compromise solution put forward by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to alter the existing EU banana import regime puts their production in “irreversible jeopardy”.
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ArticlePeru carves out US artichoke presence
Sales of Peruvian artichokes to the US are continuing to increase year-on-year
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Big four unveil weekend price cuts
The price war between the big four supermarkets is continuing to hot up, as the price on hundreds of lines is either halved or cut to 50p.
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ArticleSmart packaging cuts carbon emissions
Study by Wageningen University and Research's Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group into Xtend breathable packaging uncovers additional environmental benefits
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ArticleCosta Rica re-confirms quality edge
Melon and watermelon exports have received the green light on entry to all destination markets so far this year
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ArticleCornish growers invited to Eden Project
Cornish potato growers headed to the Celebration of Food and Farmers at the Eden Project last month, alongside the procurement, agronomy and marketing teams at Branston.
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ArticleBrazilian papaya production bounces back
International markets will be better supplied in the second half of 2008 after a return to normal volumes
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ArticleSafeway cuts 2008 sales forecast
The retailer is feeling the squeeze as consumers turn to cheaper stores to save money
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Levy board design shapes up
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has put forward proposals for its organisation design and structure.
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Poor weather hits Bartlett pear crop
A USDA report has forecast a fall in overall production in the US, with the harvest delayed by up to two weeks
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ArticleMark Bayly in at Zespri
A new director has been appointed at Zespri's AGM, to replace the departing Graham Drury
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Delhaize lowers profit expectations
The retailer has adjusted its 2008 forecast as consumers change spending behaviour amid higher food and fuel prices
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ArticleMurcia almond crop set for “major fall”
Asaja Murcia has given a gloomy prediction for this season’s Murcian almond crop, in the wake of an ongoing water shortage in southern Spain
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ArticleCalifornian walnuts popularity grows
12,261 tonnes of walnuts will go to key European countries this year
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ArticleZespri to trial four new varieties
Company's annual general meeting focuses on boosting industry performance in the face of rising costs
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ArticleEastward exodus affects trade
Grant Thornton’s head of food mergers and acquisitions, Phil Jackson has warned that, as well as massive consolidation pressure that could lead to job losses, there is a further workplace dynamic at play in the fresh produce arena.
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ArticlePotato Lovers toast the new crop
A cross-section of the potato industry came together on the Scottish border for MBMG’s annual Potato Lovers dinner.