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Soft fruit: AFI set to expand the Mockbeggar label
An initial three year joint agreement has been signed between soft fruit marketing specialist AFI Direct Sales, Paddock Wood, and the highly respected Kent producer W Brice and Son. Brice's well known Mockbeggar brand will be retained and expanded...
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English top fruit: Worldwide plan to revive apple growers' f
Controlled scarcity' of niche licensed varieties part of new strategy English top fruit growers, members of Worldwide Fruit, have been provided with a £2m regeneration plan designed in the long term to rebuild profitability. According to the...
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St Ivel milks pasta in food to go plan
Uniq Foodservice is sticking the St Ivel name on a new range of pasta snack salads the first in a series of category diversifications for the brand. The strategy is to expand St Ivel mainly known for its spreads, pot desserts and yogurts ...
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Brandwatch advertising this week....
Comic actor John Thompson is frontman for Unilever Bestfoods' £8m campaign for Hellmann's mayonnaise and salad dressings. Breaking on May 1, the theme is: People who like food, love Hellmann's' Onken's new Kids Mousse makes its TV debut with...
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Belgium: VLAM works to expand salad sales to UK
Belgian growers who pack under the Flandria environmentally friendly label have included white asparagus in their export range this spring. They estimate around 60% will fit into this category. The crop is regarded as a niche product in the UK, as...
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NCG puts a Wild Rocket up soup
The New Covent Garden Soup Company's summer range, due on shelves on May 13, includes flavours which can be served chilled as well as heated. New Spinach, Watercress and Wild Rocket flavour, and Courgette, Parmesan and Thyme flavours join the...
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New varieties: New Chilean red grape
Development reflects trend away from white Thompson Seedless Chilean producer/exporter Aconex is reporting successful results in the UK with a new dark red grape called Queen Rose. The Chilean deciduous industry is massive, yet this is one of the...
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The Grocer focus on juice & juice drinks: HEAD TO HEAD
Procter & Gamble's rollout of Sunny Delight in 1998 transformed the chiller cabinet. Clever marketing made it a must have drink in the lunchbox and massive marketing muscle kept the juice drink which contains 5% fruit juice in the headlines....
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Apples: French should have sold' more apples
French apple growers are anticipating having sufficient fruit in store to last until the end of June, according to Henri Pluvinage of the French Apple Marketing Commission. France enjoyed a near normal crop of some two million tonnes this season...
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Fresh Produce Consortium conference: Kriel sends out warning
Fruit producers and traders throughout the world are "living dangerously" because UK prices paid have fallen by 14% in the last decade. That's according to Louis Kriel, the past chief overseas executive of Capespan International, and now...
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PRINCES CIRCLING NAPOLINA
Strong rumours in Naples this week suggested that Princes Foods was negotiating to buy the internationally famous Italian canned tomato products brand, Napolina, from Unilever Bestfoods. Although there have been no comments from either party, the...
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Canned tomatoes: Subsidy shake up
Italian tomato production is likely to be reduced following a shake up to the subsidy system whereby payments will only go to growers. Each year prices have been heavily influenced by the amount of subsidy allocated both to growers and canners. UK...
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Gerber shows a passion for Fairtrade
Gerber Foods, best known for its Ocean Spray and Libby's brands, has unveiled the brand image of the UK's first Fairtrade fruit juice. Packaging for the Fruit Passion brand features colourful images of real Cuban farmers. The three different...
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Lunchable pizzas for Fun
Kraft Foods is widening the Dairylea Lunchables Fun Pack menu with the addition of a pizza variant. The Fun Pack contains a do-it-yourself pizza kit (including a pre-cooked pizza base, tomato sauce, ham or pepperoni and Dairylea slice) as well as...
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Fresh Produce Consortium: Boost for fruit and veg, but confe
The Government unveiled plans for its fully funded campaign to boost consumption of fruit and veg to a depleted audience at the Fresh Produce Consortium near Grantham this week. Apathy towards the conference, which attracted around 100 delegates ...
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Tomatoes: Dutch research boost sales
Consumer tomato research carried out by The Greenery has proved so successful that more fresh produce will be included in a similar survey later this year. The Dutch growers organisation, which controls around 65% of exports and sees the UK as one...
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Tasting panel: CHAPEL HILL IRSAI OLIVER
From Myliko International.Chapel Hill from the Nagyrede winery is one of the leading Hungarian wine brands. Irsai Oliver is an east European grape. Abv: 11.5% Price: £3.29 £3.49. TARGET CONSUMER Angela Newton, 26, Managing Editor, Homes &...
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Extension to tequila
Beverage Brands is tapping into the growing demand for tequila and is extending its premium packaged drink based on the Mexican spirit. Six months ago it launched Ca'quila, a mix of agave cactus juice and lime. It is now introducing a Ca'quila...
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Distribution: FMD: packers nervous
Hauliers taking precautions; spring produce imports still escaping disruption There are growing fears that the foot and mouth epidemic may yet hit fruit and vegetable distribution both from British farms and even extend to the Continent as more...
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A bagel for Easter from New York
New York Bagel Company is going seasonal, with a limited edition dried fruit, spice and apple Easter bagel. Available until the end of April, this builds on the success of the Christmas bagel. Packs have an Easter theme and carry a free prize draw...