All Fresh produce articles – Page 96
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NewsTesco eyes fresh boost with ‘hot house’ trial
Tesco is exploring ways to dramatically boost its fresh foods offering with a ‘hot house’ availability trial.
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NewsDole UK fights back over direct sourcing
Dole Fresh UK has restructured its business to better respond to the mults' growing interest in direct sourcing. The company's latest accounts reveal shareholders carried out a review of Dole's activity last year with the aim of "better...
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NewsFlorette to splash out on big events in 2012
Florette is set to launch its biggest-ever marketing campaign next year a £5m push to promote its bagged salads around key sporting events and the Queen’s Jubilee. The campaign will feature national TV advertising, to be launched in…
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NewsAsda reignites banana wars with new price cut
The banana price wars are back, after Asda this morning cut the price of 1kg of loose bananas from 68p to 58p.
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NewsClover Lighter gets OAPs to sing praises
Dairy Crest is launching a new TV push for its Clover Lighter dairy spread, featuring a choir of eccentric old-age pensioners. The ad, which debuts on 8 October during ITV1's The X Factor, sees the choir perform a version of A Tribe...
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NewsHigher-welfare boost for Morrisons chicken
Morrisons is introducing improved welfare standards for all of its standard fresh chicken in a bid to make higher-welfare poultry more affordable for mainstream shoppers.
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NewsCargill to talk more about food security
Cargill, one of the world's biggest commodity producers and traders, has signalled it intends to become a leading voice in the debate about food security. The company had previously been reluctant to speak out on these issues, but that...
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NewsInnocent helps kids to make smoothies from unwanted fruit
Innocent has come up with an ingenious scheme to turn unsold fruit into smoothies for schoolchildren. Under an eight-week trial launched last Friday, unwanted fruit collected by one of Innocent's partners in the scheme, food donation...
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NewsDoritos unites with Pepsi Max to cross-sell crisps and drinks
PepsiCo and Britvic have teamed up to develop new Doritos and Pepsi Max lines that are designed to be sold together. The Fire and Ice initiative will involve the launch of a spicy Jalapeño Fire Doritos alongside a cooling lime Pepsi Max,…
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NewsLurpak foils to ‘honour’ Christmas
Arla is looking to keep Lurpak at the forefront of consumers' minds this Christmas with two seasonally-inspired inner-foil designs. Part of Lurpak's current Good Food Deserves marketing campaign, the designs would encourage shoppers to be...
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NewsRetailers unite to fight campylobacter threat
Eight of the country's biggest food retailers and the three largest chicken processors have joined forces to tackle the most common cause of food poisoning campylobacter in raw meat. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, The Co-operative...
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NewsBestway puts CC cider in can
Bestway has added a 500ml can to its range of own-label apple cider, Country Choice. The can is price marked at 69p and offers retailers a 25.4% margin. It joins the line-up of two and three litre bottles.
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NewsCan Fairtrade help UK farmers bag a fairer retail deal?
Within weeks of Tesco escalating the milk wars by rolling out its Creamfields brand to whole and semi-skimmed, the Fairtrade Foundation is working on a groundbreaking initiative with British farmers to see whether elements of the Fairtrade model...
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‘Huge relief’ for producers as RPA pays EU monies
UK fruit and veg businesses have breathed a sigh of relief after the Rural Payments Agency said it was releasing vital EU funds and giving suppliers a 12-month lifeline to prove why they should continue to receive EU monies. The agency...
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Lambrini unveils its cider for the ladies
Perry brand Lambrini is being extended into ciders for the first time with the launch of a range of three fruit drinks targeted at women.The 4% abv ciders, which roll out to the on and off-trade at the end of this month, will be...
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Comment & Opinion
Low energy-dense foods like fruit and veg are not cheap and often less convenient
Innovation takes many forms. For tobacco manufacturers, current NPD feels almost like a last hurrah before the shutters come down.
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NewsTetley takes Tea Folk into baked aisle with sultana scones
Tetley tea is stepping outside the tea aisle for the first time with the launch of a range of fruit scones. A four-pack of Tetley Tea Folk sultana scones (rsp: £1.29), baked under licence by Haywood & Padgett, will launch into Asda…
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News‘Reverse season’ asparagus in M&S for autumn
Marks & Spencer is launching a ‘reverse season’ British asparagus that will come into season in the autumn instead of the usual springtime. It will be available in M&S stores from September to November.
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Asda pips rivals to Cox apple punch
Asda has claimed victory in the race to stock this year’s crop of British Cox apples, with the first Cox going into Asda stores on Sunday.