All Wholesale articles – Page 71
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Higgins Group celebrates landmark
Potato company The Higgins Group is celebrating 50 years of production this year charting the rise from ‘Potato Man’ to successful company.
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ArticleCorbas market opens for business
Lyon’s wholesalers have finally completed the move from Perrache to Corbas, as the new market opens its doors
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ArticleTotal Produce to close facility in UK
The company has announced that it expects to shut down its Norwich-based banana ripening and wholesale centre
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Total Produce Norwich outlet "highly likely" to close
Total Produce is in consultation with all 40 members of staff at its Norwich branch with a view to closing it at month-end.
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Covent Garden expands schools scheme
New Covent Garden Market has launched the second year of its Feeling Good, Eating Well schools project
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ArticleNew Total Produce trucks bearing fruit
Schoolchildren across north-east England are eating fresh fruit and vegetables delivered in a new pair of Mitsubishi Fuso Canter trucks by Total Produce.
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ArticleGerman wholesale plans new campaign
The GFI German Wholesale Markets society met in Stuttgart to discuss the past year and future campaigns
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ArticleJohn Acock dies, aged 81
John Acock, the founder of Fourayes Farm in Sittingbourne, died on December 10 aged 81.
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ArticleAll lit up at Spits
The Mayor of Waltham Forest, councillor Sheila Smith-Pryor, officially turned on the Christmas lights at New Spitalfields Market last Friday morning and was introduced to the wholesale market’s newly appointed corporate development manager, Tim Williams.
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ArticleSuppliers scared of retail blacklist
Suppliers are too scared to complain to retailers for fear of being “delisted”, according to National Farmers’ Union vice-president Paul Temple.
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ArticleAlan Thomerson dies, aged 83
Alan Thomerson, a longstanding wholesaler at Spitalfields, passed away peacefully on December 2, aged 83.
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ArticleBroomhall Totally ready for Christmas
Total Produce operations director Graham Broomhall told FPJ last week that his company’s wholesale operation is ready to cut through the crunch and take advantage of the habitual Christmas sales rise.
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ArticlePomegranate juice pulls in purists
A new 100% pomegranate juice drink aimed at health-seeking purists is set to enter the UK market.
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Scottish NFU calls for halt to supplier abuse
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Scotland has reiterated its desire for an independent supermarket ombudsman, following reports that suppliers are being mistreated.
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ArticleSpits Olympic spat nears resolution
The deadlock between traders at New Spitalfields Market and organisers of the London Olympics moved a step closer to resolution this week.
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ArticleGeordies make grand cash donation
A DVD of photographs from markets old and new in north-east England has raised £1,000 for local charities.
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Creno enlarges group
The French wholesale giant has announced the addition of a new company to its group
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ArticleMarkets show recovery shoots
After years of often self-inflicted decline, the UK’s markets are showing signs of recovery, Krys Zasada, pictured, told delegates at the London Markets Symposium.
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ArticleMarshall calls London markets to arms
The London Markets Symposium, at City Hall last week, was brought to life by an impassioned presentation on behalf of all London wholesalers by Gary Marshall, chairman of Covent Garden Tenants’ Association (CGTA).
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ArticleChina’s biggest cool store planned for Wuhan
Wuhan in Hubei province is set to receive China’s biggest cool storage facility