All Fresh produce articles – Page 212
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English apples: Growers confident that premiums will hold up
Lighter Cox crop still showing plenty of promise English apple growers not among the minority which have suffered crop loss through hail damage will be in confident mood next week when the industry officially launches the Cox season from the London...
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French apples: No shortfall for Le Crunch
As the first fruit begins to arrive in the UK coinciding with a three week Le Crunch campaign, French apple growers are confident they will be able to make a big impression on this market. Their 2.2 million tonne quality crop is in sharp comparison...
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Tasting panel: Las Lomas Vinas Viejas
From Grape-2-Wine. A new wine from organic grapes by Claudio Barria in Chile THE EXPERT Sally Easton Master of Wine and wine buyer for Berry Brothers and Rudd On the nose there is a warm sensation of high alcohol and ...
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Dinosaurs' thirsty work
Britvic Soft Drinks is putting £1.2m behind squash brand Robinsons' autumn tie up with the new Disney animated film Dinosaur. An on pack promotion will run from September 18 on Robinsons Original, Special R and Fruit & Barley. For two bottle caps...
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Citrus easy peelers: Spain expecting less fruit
Previous heavy crops last season could reduce the volume of Spanish soft citrus available, according to cooperatives in the major Valencia region. Last year Spain produced some 1.2 million tonnes of all varieties. Easy peeler main crop varieties...
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Bass's NPD in overdrive as it seeks tomorrow's successes
Bass is testing a raft of new products in its efforts to replicate the runaway successes of Caffrey's and Hooch. The Bass new product development team has five products out on limited test: Mojo, Kasteel Cru, Fat Apple, Twisted Vine and Arc. Mojo...
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JESTER IMPRESSES MARKS AND SPENCER
A new tomato variety called Jester grown by English Village Salads which also controls the seed has impressed Marks and Spencer so much that it has contracted for supplies well into the next decade. Several other types have been on display at…
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Suppliers: Heinz to launch organic versions
Heinz has pledged to make the organic market more mainstream with the launch of organic versions of its Tomato Ketchup, Baked Beans and Spaghetti. They will hit shelves by the beginning of October and will retain the identifiable Heinz packaging...
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Müller gets into probiotics
Branded yogurt market leader Müller is aiming for a foothold in the growing probiotic sector with this week's launch of Vitality three flavours of premium single- serve low fat probiotic yogurt. The range comes in raspberry, apricot and pineapple...
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New vegetables: Prepared salads' baby leaf boom
Market wants interesting shapes, colour and flavour' A whole new range of baby leaf salads may soon add their weight to the expanding prepared market, according to breeder Elsoms Seeds. Its open day at Spalding introduced a new trial category...
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UGLY OR WHAT?
With hardly the most encouraging of names, Ugly Plums have been launched by Marks and Spencer under its Ripe and Ready to Eat range which concentrates on flavour. Unusually the fruit is graded Cat II, but the label draws attention to the fact that...
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CITRUS THINGS
South African sauce player Robertsons is adding a three strong Citrus Fruits low fat cooking sauce range to its Walnut Ridge Something South African portfolio next month. The new range includes Summer Citrus orange, mandarin and lemon, Mango and...
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PREPARED SALADS: Budgens first' with Duet
Budgens claimed a first this week through the extension of its prepared salad range with a topped and trimmed Onion Duet' prepack which contains a red spring onion called Burgundy. The 100g packs are priced at 65p. Steve Normington, senior produce...
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Obituary: Colin Brook
Colin Brook, chairman of Seabrook Potato crisps, has died from cancer. He was 74. Brook, who friends described as a workaholic', started making crisps after the war at the family's chip shop in Bradford. Within a few years the doorstep delivery...
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New board for Whitworths
Dried fruit and baking specialist, Whitworths, has unveiled the new line-up for its board of directors. Bernard Cook has been appointed non-executive chairman. David Pratt, who joined Whitworths as group operations director in 1998, succeeds...
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US apples: Washington increase despite US reduction
US growers revised the initial crop estimates made by the USDA downwards last week at the annual conference of its national Apple Association held in Chicago last week. This initial forecast taken a month earlier was reduced from 254 million...
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EU Apples: EU still overproducing by millions of tonnes
Prognosfruit forecasts offer mixed bag of opportunities for coming season As generally anticipated by EU apple growers, this year's crop shows only a marginal fluctuation from last season, although the commercial effects will be far more difficult...
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EU pears: Conference dominates 46% UK rise
The English pear crop is forecast to rise substantially this season and will be up 46% reaching a total of 26,000 tonnes, mainly of Conference but supported by Comice and Concorde. Fruit quality is reported as very good with few mis-shapes,...
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LETTUCE: Increasing growth of prepared salad trade
Growers think BIGA on web Plans by the 18 members of the British Iceberg Lettuce Growers' Association to link together on its new web site to exchange commercial information and crop forecasts will come to fruition next season said chairman...
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Del Monte: SA to reveal new process
Exclusive Tim Palmer, Cape Town Del Monte's South African subsidiary is working on a new process which could revolutionise the fruit processing business. In an exclusive interview with The Grocer in South Africa, operations and production director...