All United Kingdom articles – Page 496
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ArticleM&S launches ready-sliced fresh avocado pots
This latest move in produce's hottest category follows on from the retailer's 'baby' avocado launch earlier this year
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ArticleBlue Skies welcomes UK minister
Fresh-cut exotics giant uses opportunity to explain the pressures produce businesses are facing in the key supply region of West Africa
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ArticlePink Lady to support Pride events
Rainbow stickers will appear on Pink Lady apples and the brand will be present at Pride events across the UK
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ArticleTesco launches supplier app
Linked to the retailer’s supplier network, the app means suppliers can now access Tesco's online supplier community on-the-go
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ArticleSPAR UK adds two new salad bowl lines
SPAR Baby Leaf 90g, and SPAR Classic Salad Bowl 320g join a range with a turnover of around £7,000 each week for the retailer
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ArticleChristine Tacon named as MDS chair
The Groceries Code Adjudicator replaces Doug Henderson, who has been head of the training scheme since 2004
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ArticleHort business profitability falls by 7 per cent
RBR survey found that overall output fell by three per cent but this was slightly offset by a similar fall in variable costs
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ArticleNatures Way boss joins IGD as trustee
The appointment of Susan Barratt at the grocery insight charity takes effect immediately and will last until the end of 2019
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ArticleCommercial director of prepared firm dies
FPJ understands that the commercial director of Kanes Foods, Jeremy Folkard, has been killed in a car crash
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ArticleJobs on line as QV looks to address cost base
Veg giant looking at a proposal to consolidate the QV potato business to its Holbeach base in Lincolnshire
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ArticleTotal Produce UK maintains steady revenue stream
Fresh produce giant posted a 2015 full-year turnover figure nigh-on identical to the commanding £401 million 2014 number
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ArticleHere comes the berry in black
Despite promising work being done to boost blackberry sales, growers and suppliers have a number of troubling issues to contend with
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ArticleAdded value sparks interest in salads
The added-value salad sector is a valuable way of sparking consumer interest and boosting the category, but smaller firms can struggle with niche NPD
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ArticleImprove store layout to up fruit and veg consumption - NFU
One of 34 pleas NFU's Horticulture and Potatoes Board makes in its Fit For The Future: Helping Consumers Eat More Fruit and Veg report
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ArticleTaylorgrown's veg estate
Houghton Estate in Norfolk is home to organic veg grower Taylorgrown and its inspiring general manager Joe Rolfe. Nina Pullman went to visit
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ArticleTide turns as veg picks up
Recent shortages of cauliflower and spring greens appear to be over, while new figures show the vegetable category is seeing value and volume growth
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AnalysisAnalysis: What does wonky veg mean for suppliers?
With Andy Clarkson, commercial director, Greenvale, and Rob Hull, head of fruit and veg ops, Farmcare
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AnalysisOpinion: How fresh produce is linked with food viruses
Suppliers and growers should be more aware about the risks of produce-borne diseases, says Campden BRI's Dr Roy Betts
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ArticleMorrisons lists ‘ketchup and chips’ hybrid plant
Retailer will also stock the Thompson & Morgan-owned ‘Egg and Chips’ plant to cater to increased demand for grow-your-own
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ArticleGolden Bay Fruit welcomes its first Cox to UK
New Zealand grower-exporter Golden Bay Fruit has delivered its first volumes of new season Cox to the UK and Europe