All articles by Nina Pullman – Page 77
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ArticleTip of the iceberg
In a season dominated by retail price wars on iceberg lettuce, the salads category has seen deflation drive volumes up with growers left feeling the squeeze
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ArticleFocus on the future
Speakers at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference tackled some of the key industry issues for the future, including climate change, supply chains and the EU
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ArticleLea Valley plans spark outrage
Park development plan would ‘resist’ glasshouse expansions and could use land-purchasing powers to force growers out
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ArticleTesco launches app on Google Glass
Retailer becomes first to launch its grocery app for Google Glass to work alongside shoppers’ Tesco online accounts
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ArticleWaitrose halves price of 13 fresh produce items
Avocados, citrus and Pink Lady apples among produce with slashed prices in month-long ‘half price’ promotion event
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ArticleFourayes invests £100k in new Bramley orchard
Kent’s largest fruit processor says ‘heavy investment’ in close-planted Bramley orchard will pay off as yields will double
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ArticleBritish Herbs revamps logo and website
Trade body unveils image makeover in time for annual conference, and says it aims to reach more in the herb supply chain
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ArticleMorrisons CEO Dalton Philips to step down
Retailer’s boss set to leave as like-for-like sales fell by 3.1 per cent over Christmas period, the worst results out of the big four
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ArticleRival to Oxford Farming Conference sells out
Oxford Real Farming Conference welcomed a record 650 delegates, and launched manifesto for “under-represented” farmers
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ArticleWaitrose new depot to create 450 jobs
Retailer's new south London distribution centre will help expand online business and is set to replace Acton facility
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ArticleCoregeo boosts marketing team
Pink Lady and Tenderstem licensor has appointed Maxime Delacour as assistant marketing manager
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ArticleFruit trader fined £500 for selling in city centre
An illegal fruit trader has been prosecuted for selling fruit from a wheeled stall in Manchester
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ArticleNFU is ‘in bed with supermarkets’, claims Monbiot
Guardian journalist George Monbiot has slammed NFU for being too close to ‘the big guys’, and claims CAP is 'unjustifiable'
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ArticleM&S sees ‘record’ food sales over Christmas
Premium retailer said food sales in Christmas week were up a record 17 per cent, and like-for-like sales grew by 0.1 per cent
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Article'Drastic Dave' to shut Tesco's Cheshunt HQ and 43 stores
"Important steps in the right direction" revealed alongside news that the retailer's Xmas like-for-like sales fell 0.3 per cent
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ArticleShorter supply chains ‘benefit growers’
Talk by Laurence Olins at Oxford Farming Conference evaluates role of the middleman in the supply chain
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ArticleUK could be world leader in farming, says Truss
Environment minister Liz Truss listed her ambitions for UK farming and tackled issues including CAP, GM and Europe
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Article‘Blue Whale Bobby’ runs marathon for charity
Blue Whale employee Bobby Barton has so far raised €3,431 ahead of running the London marathon for cancer charity Leukaemia Care
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ArticleTraders donate produce to homeless charity
Donations from New Covent Garden Market to homeless charity Crisis meant it could supply 4,000 Christmas meals to those in need
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ArticleSpar poaches Iceland head of buying
Brigid Davidson has joined Spar wholesaler A.F.Blakemore & Son as trading director