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NewsCity snapshot: Total Produce and Dole to float on US stock market
Fruit and veg supplier Total Produce has agreed to combine with Dole Food Company to created the largest fresh producer in the world with revenues of almost $10bn. Plus, profits jump at BAT despite Covid disruption; Nestlé sells North American water brands for $4.3bn; Imperial Brands appoints a CFO; Ahold Delhaize 2020 sales soar thanks to pandemic; and Ohso Chocolate acquired by VC firm.
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NewsGrowers vote to abolish AHDB’s compulsory horticulture levy
But with AHDB suggesting the result was ’complex’ many growers are concerned the government may disregard the outcome
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Analysis & FeaturesHow can the UK be more self-sufficient in food?
As Brexit and climate change threatens UK food imports, self-sufficiency is down. Could new attitudes and tech change food policy?
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NewsSainsbury’s top up of £2 biggest yet for Healthy Start Vouchers
The retailer joins Tesco, Waitrose, Co-op and Lidl in topping up the scheme
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NewsBranston appoints ex-Princes exec Richard Fell as prepared potato MD
The position is a new role and follows a £12m investment into Branston’s prepared division
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NewsOrganic sales hit 15-year high as locked-down shoppers flock to category
Soil Association Certification’s 2021 Organic Market Report revealed a 12.6% increase in organic food and drink sales to £2.79bn last last year
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NewsFruit & veg sales booming under lockdown, says Tesco
The retailer said its stores were breaking records on a weekly basis for a range of products
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NewsSouth African raisin crop projections down 15% after extreme rainfall
Last year, the country’s raisins accounted for almost 9% of the UK market
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Analysis & FeaturesHow vertical farming is taking off
In the first in a two-part series on the future of farming we look at the upward trajectory of vertical farming
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NewsReal-terms funding for GLAA declines despite rise in cases
The GLAA’s accounts showed net expenditure grew 6% to £6.6m in the year to 31 March 2020, but Home Office funding only increased 2.3%
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NewsAnti-GM campaigner urges organics to back ‘inevitable’ gene editing launch
The chair of the FDF Organic Committee said outright opposition to GE could leave the sector ‘ridiculed and marginalised’
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NewsIncreased labour costs could make UK fruit & veg crops ‘unviable’, NFU warns
The NFU was reflecting on a new report that showed labour costs had risen by up to 50% since 2016 for some growers
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Promotional VideosBrand Success Stories: Mutti
We spoke to Francesco Mutti, fourth-generation CEO of Mutti s.p.a., to find out how it delivers the best tomato experience for consumers and why the UK is central to the company’s plans for 2021.
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NewsQuarter of UK households live in ‘veg poverty’, new research finds
Plant-based veg brand Strong Roots has pledged to supply its products to food banks off the back of the research
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NewsSpanish storm pushes up wholesale salad and veg prices
The price rises were the result of ’supply shortages and logistical bottlenecks’ in Spain, said Mintec
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NewsFlorette owner Agrial improves profitability despite sales dip
The company cut back on its losses thanks to ‘improved cost control’, accoring to its latest financial results
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NewsFruit supplier J. O. Sims sees big sales boost after cereal supply contract win
But profits were dented by market volatility and the impact of Brexit on the pound, according to its latest financial results
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Comment & OpinionThe government must fix labour crisis now or face another food security problem
Brexit and the ‘British flu’ mean the UK doesn’t look too welcoming to seasonal workers right now
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NewsFruit & veg industry ‘nervous’ over seasonal worker uncertainty
Chair of the NFU’s horticulture and potatoes board, Ali Capper, has warned the timeline for SAWS was causing ‘nervousness’
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NewsFresh food sector fury as government ‘errors’ hit supply
Importers said out-of-date IT systems had led to shortages of fresh fruit & veg on shelves