All articles by Thomas Hobbs – Page 17

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    Rabobank full of praise for UK floriculture model

    2013-04-16T10:16:17Z

    Rabobank has urged retailers in north-west European countries to follow the model of UK supermarkets for flowers in order to revitalise a 'stagnant' floriculture market.

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    Chiquita reveals preliminary results

    2013-04-16T10:16:17Z

    Chiquita Brands International has outlined its preliminary results for the fourth quarter and full-year of 2012, with sales forecast to remain stable and yearly income expected to fall on the previous 12 months.

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    Fresh produce behind Eurotunnel success

    2013-04-16T10:16:16Z

    Eurotunnel says that flowers and fruit and vegetables helped it to achieve record revenues of £843.8 million for 2012.

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    UK Fairtrade Foundation announces new CEO

    2013-04-16T10:16:16Z

    The UK's Fairtrade Foundation last month announced the appointment of Michael Gidney as its new CEO to replace Harriet Lamb, who became chief executive of Fairtrade International last summer.

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    UN urges people to buy ugly fruit & veg

    2013-04-16T10:16:16Z

    The United Nations has urged shoppers around the world to buy misshapen or aesthetically imperfect fresh produce in a bid to limit the volume of fresh produce that goes to waste every year and feed millions of people around the world who go hungry every day.

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    Fruit & veg linked to breast cancer reduction

    2013-04-16T10:16:16Z

    A frequent diet of fruit and vegetables can lower the risk of an aggressive form of breast cancer according to a new scientific study.

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    Hearty strawberries from Total Berry

    2013-04-16T10:16:05Z

    Supermarkets will celebrate Valentine's Day by stocking heart-shaped punnets of strawberries.

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    Sir Stuart Rose to chair Ocado

    2013-04-16T10:16:04Z

    Sir Stuart Rose, who stepped down as chairman of M&S back in 2011, will take up the position of chairman at online grocer Ocado.

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    Thanet Earth harvest first cucumbers of 2013

    2013-04-16T10:16:04Z

    Thanet Earth has begun harvesting its first cucumbers of the year and says that despite recent low light levels plants are looking strong and healthy.

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    F&V ‘cheapest at greengrocers’, says new show

    2013-04-16T10:16:03Z

    This week’s Channel 4 documentary claiming greengrocers and independent retailers are selling fruit and vegetables up to 35 per cent cheaper than supermarkets is “not surprising”, according to one leading greengrocer.

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    Tacon gets the produce industry’s backing

    2013-04-16T10:16:03Z

    The announcement of Christine Tacon, the former MD of The Co-operative Farms, as the long-awaited groceries code adjudicator has been well received by the fresh produce industry.

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    Price inflation and PR push boosts apples

    2013-04-16T10:16:03Z

    English apples have seen 18 per cent price inflation this season and benefited from supermarkets lowering their specifications, as well as a major PR push, growers’ representatives report.

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    South African growers 'back in business'

    2013-04-16T10:16:03Z

    South African fruit growers are expected to resume full-scale harvesting and packing operations after unions ended strike action that had resulted in large-scale disruptions and damage to property over the past three months, a provincial Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) official said on Tuesday (22 January).

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    Salmonella found in thyme at Sainsbury's

    2013-04-16T10:16:02Z

    Sainsbury’s has launched an investigation into one of its suppliers after salmonella was found in a packet of the retailer’s own label lemon thyme.

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    Psa cure shelved in New Zealand

    2013-04-16T10:16:01Z

    New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries has shelved a potential treatment for the Psa vine disease.

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    NFU unhappy with delay on AWB future

    2013-04-16T10:16:01Z

    The NFU has described Unite as "misleading" following the trade union's suggestion that last week's House of Lords debate has put a "brake" on abolition plans for the Agricultural Wages Board.

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    Port of Felixstowe quash BBC weather claims

    2013-04-16T10:16:00Z

    The Port of Felixstowe has denied reports by the BBC that its service has been badly affected by today's snowy weather.

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    Vote for future of AWB delayed by six weeks

    2013-04-16T10:16:00Z

    Unite's push for Labour and Liberal Democrat peers appears to have paid off with the government putting the brakes on its plans to cut the pay of 150,000 rural workers on Wednesday.

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    Co-operatives announce top-fruit partnership

    2013-04-16T10:16:00Z

    Two top-fruit co-operatives have merged to create a 16-member group that will span the south-east and east of England.

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    700 new jobs at Tesco following online success

    2013-04-16T10:16:00Z

    Tesco says that the popularity of its online grocery service has allowed it to create 700 new jobs at a new dotcom store based in Crawley.