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Oslo Accord: Video from Norwegian importer Bama’s recent 125th anniversary celebration, where five leading industry figures joined Eurofruit managing director Chris White to debate the future of the international fresh produce business. Panel members included American economist Jeffrey Sachs, Dole Food Company chief executive David DeLorenzo and Nature’s Pride CEO Shawn Harris, as well as Norway’s trade minister Trond Giske and agriculture minister Lars Peder Brekk.
Italian Jobs: As Italy’s unemployment level rises and consumers reduce their spending, it’s becoming harder and harder for the country’s retailers to keep shoppers spending. This month, Eurofruit talks to Germano Fabiani, head of fresh produce sourcing at Italy’s biggest grocery retailer Coop Italia, about the changing commercial landscape and the potential road ahead.
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.
Sourcing Strategy: Tesco sourcing directors Darren Clough and Matt Simister feature on the front cover of our September issue. Inside, they reveal how they plan to bring the retailer’s entire global fruit and vegetable procurement under one roof, enabling them to coordinate supply to all of their different store networks around the world.
Fruit & Veg Tablets: Eurofruit’s new iPad edition enables you to download and store the magazine for reading in the office, at home or on the move. Choose individual issues or subscribe for the entire year. The European fresh produce industry’s leading news and features publication has entered the digital age!
Click here to view the Eurofruit Magazine page in the iTunes App Store…
Looking up: This month, Eurofruit talks to Zespri CEO Lain Jager about the New Zealand kiwifruit export business. We’ve also got a special report on the German market, a preview of Flandria’s new promotional campaign and a round-up of comments from the recent Global Berry Congress, plus all the latest industry news and market analysis.
Fresh Format: Example pages from the new-look Eurofruit, which was unveiled at the start of May. The revamped magazine offers readers a more crisp, clean design and eight colour-coded sections which focus more clearly on specific areas of the business. The revised format also reflects a new approach to covering the industry which we feel strikes a better balance between in-depth reporting and quick-fire news briefings.
Taking responsibility: Eurofruit Magazine’s February 2011 issue charts the recent rise of the ethical fresh produce movement, investigating how and why social responsibility looks set to overtake food safety and environmental concerns and become the major point of difference for producers, suppliers and distributors.
Fresh faces: The cover of our 316-page January issue, which includes a comprehensive preview of Fruit Logistica 2011. On the cover are five new industry appointments for the new year — David Bondi of Agrexco, Kevin Doran of The Greenery, Brian Kocher of Chiquita Europe, Johan Lindén of Dole and Johan Dique of Capespan.
Eurofruit’s Fruitnet.com word cloud. So what stories has Eurofruit been covering during the past year? This word cloud made using the 500 most popular headlines from the European edition of our news website Fruitnet.com shows at a glance the most commonly mentioned topics.
The cover of our November/December issue, which contains a special report on attempts by kiwifruit growers to combat a recent outbreak of Psa in Italy.
Our October 2010 front cover confirms what many in the fresh produce industry feared: that the European banana trade, in so many ways a driver of the entire fruit business, is seeing its value and profitability diminished by price wars and an increase in supply of product on what remains a stagnant market.
