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Mapped out: (Click to enlarge) Infographic showing international markets for British berry and potato exports, taken from the upcoming January 2012 edition of Eurofruit.
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This first edition of the Eurofruit Podcast presents an exclusive interview with Matt Simister and Darren Clough, two of the directors leading Tesco’s new Group Food Sourcing Division.
Fresh produce on sale at a market stall in Hertford, UK.
UK retailer Waitrose’s new advert features South African lemons and TV chef Heston Blumenthal
Early Start: English apples being picked and packed at the start of the 2011/12 season, which has made its earliest start on record.
The knock-on effect is that orders for cucumbers from Spain and Holland have been cancelled altogether, or at best reduced. For cucumbers from Holland, the obvious place to look is in the UK – we already take large volumes of cucumbers at this time of the year. Extra cucumbers will be “dumped” here rather than marketed, and this will drop the price paid to the grower. These price reductions, if they occur, are unlikely to affect the price in the shops but they do have a massive effect on the price paid to growers in the UK.
Soft Launch: UK-based group Hargreaves Plants previews its berry trials for the 2011 season.
Report on fruit and veg prices in the UK, taken from this morning’s Metro newspaper in London. Note the final paragraph about supermarket price promotions and their impact on shopper savings.
Disney / Toy Story-branded easy-peelers on sale in the UK
UK newspaper the Daily Mail’s recent take on the story about Fresh Del Monte’s individually wrapped bananas.
The vulnerability of Heathrow airport to snow has prompted Lonrho to turn from airplanes to ships to ensure its Africa-grown produce is delivered to European retail giants such as Marks & Spencer and Tesco.
Eurofruit organised a special round table meeting last week in London for the French apple sector, bringing some of the UK’s leading industry players face to face with representatives of France’s topfruit export business. At the meeting, hosted on behalf of Sopexa, were: Daniel Corbel (Interfel), Sandrine Gaborieau (Association National Pommes Poires), David Croxson (Tesco), Paul Morgan (Musgrave), Steve Maxwell (Worldwide Fruit), Greg Hart (Sydney Hart), Sue Shields (Sydney Hart), Chris Guindi (Richard Hochfeld), Jerry Green (Greencell) and William Haynes (Epco). A full report from the meeting will be published in the February 2011 issue of Eurofruit Magazine.
Emilio Teresa, former International Produce boss, stars as a humble grower-supplier in Asda’s Xmas advert.
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