Tom Bicknell
Tom is senior market analyst at Freshlogic, a specialist food market analyst based in Melbourne, Australia. He previously worked as staff journalist on Asiafruit and helped to launch Produce Plus - a new magazine for the fresh fruit and vegetable business in Australia and New Zealand - as its inaugural editor.
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