All Wholesale articles – Page 81

  • Market considers response to drug allegations
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    Market considers response to drug allegations

    2005-04-02T15:01:01Z

    New Covent Garden’s tenants’ association is taking advice over an article the Evening Standard, which dubbed traders in the market “cocaine sniffing barrow boys who cared less about veg than our nation’s children”.

  • Mills backs Corporation to take over Garden
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    Mills backs Corporation to take over Garden

    2005-04-01T14:01:01Z

    The Corporation of London should be the next owner of New Covent Garden wholesale market, chairman of the Covent Garden Market Authority Leif Mills told the Journal in his last week in office.

  • London congestion charge blow for suppliers
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    London congestion charge blow for suppliers

    2005-04-01T12:42:46Z

    Fresh produce distributors who deliver within the congestion charge zone in London, as well as their retail and foodservice customers, will be dismayed to hear that mayor Ken Livingstone has announced the charge is rising from £5 to £8.

  • Goldsby: another challenge
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    Going and gone for Goldsby

    2005-02-12T12:01:02Z

    David Goldsby, manager of Vitacress Sales Ltd - Birmingham, retired this week after 39 years in the fresh produce trade.

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    Charles Renaudon passes away

    2005-02-01T12:01:01Z

    Charles Victor Renaudon, past president of the Wholesale Fruit Federation, has died aged 88.

  • Defra and CGMA to appeal
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    Defra and CGMA to appeal

    2005-01-24T10:01:01Z

    Defra and the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA) have decided to seek the right to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s decision about the face-to-face wholesaling of meat and fish at New Covent Garden.

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    Record low year for Belgian auction

    2005-01-12T17:01:01Z

    A leading Belgian fresh produce auction has described 2004 as the worst year in its history, as turnover tumbled 24 per cent compared with the previous year.

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    New chair appointed for CGMA

    2005-01-04T12:01:01Z

    Baroness Brenda Dean has been appointed as the new chairman of the Covent Garden Market Authority, Defra has announced.

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    Speed restrictions for vans

    2004-12-26T15:01:01Z

    White van may find himself forced to slow down thanks to new EU legislation.

  • Daniel Caspi
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    Appeal Court finds in favour of Corporation

    2004-12-22T07:01:00Z

    Ending the latest round of the judicial review process, the Corporation of London wins appeal case against Covent Garden Market Authority.

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    Market explosion

    2004-12-21T17:01:01Z

    Italian police are investigating potential trading rivals after an explosion at a wholesale fruit and vegetable market.

  • Bray rewarded for decade of service
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    Bray rewarded for decade of service

    2004-12-16T15:01:01Z

    George Bray, chairman of the Western International Market Tenants’ Association (WIMTA), was presented with a crystal decanter to mark 10 years in the post this week.

  • Fyffes builds on Edinburgh market site
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    Fyffes builds on Edinburgh market site

    2004-12-14T11:01:01Z

    Fyffes has hatched plans to build 484 homes on an 8.6 acre site that once incorporated Edinburgh Fruitmarket.

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    Western trader shuts its doors

    2004-12-12T15:01:02Z

    E James (Western) Ltd of Western International Market ceased trading last week.

  • Culverwell, right, presents the mayor and his wife with a basket of fruit
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    Mayor lights up local market

    2004-12-11T15:01:01Z

    The Mayor of Waltham Forest, Councillor Michael Lewis performed his office’s annual duty of switching on the New Spitalfields Market Christmas lights this week.

  • Record cocaine haul at Spitalfields Market
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    Record cocaine haul at Spitalfields Market

    2004-12-10T17:12:38Z

    Police swooped on New Spitalfields Market this morning and came away with a record haul of 500kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of nearly £30 million.

  • Sharrocks in new variety quest
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    Sharrocks in new variety quest

    2004-11-21T15:01:00Z

    North-west-England produce supplier Sharrocks goes to France in its quest for new products.

  • EU wholesalers get food-service warning
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    EU wholesalers get food-service warning

    2004-10-21T13:01:01Z

    Wholesalers Europe-wide need to exploit the opportunities provided by the food-service sector before it is too late.

  • Nigel Jenney
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    5-a-day strategy needed for wholesale

    2004-10-15T12:01:01Z

    The wholesale sector needs to develop a strategy to support the 5-a-day campaign, said Nigel Jenney, chief executive of the Fresh Produce Consortium.

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    Wholesale waste bills 'out of control'

    2004-10-14T15:01:01Z

    Waste disposal bills at Spitalfields wholesale market is running 'out of control' with costs climbing to more than £600,000, claimed market bosses.