All Fresh produce articles – Page 232
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FPC: e-commerce
Problem of perishability Opinions remain divided as to how far the fruit and vegetable industry will adapt to internet trading. As the industry goes global, several delegates to the annual conference of the Fresh Produce Consortium believe...
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HOW THE PINK LADY GROWERS COOPERATE
An international producers' club including members in France, Australia, South Africa and the United States has voluntarily agreed to use the With the Pink Lady apple trademark year round. Funds are available to take legal action against itinerant...
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Primitive character
Casa Girelli has added a Primitivo di Puglia to its Canaletto winemaker's choice range. Managing director Stefano Girelli said: "Primitivo is a grape with great character and Puglia is one of Italy's most exciting wine regions." The Canaletto...
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Campino candy can-do on tv
Bendicks (Mayfair) is backing the launch of its new sugar confectionery brand Campino with a £6m TV ad campaign. Campino, which blends fruit ingredients with cream in a hard candy, comes in two variants: strawberries and cream and oranges and...
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Heinz bids for cooler image with new look Salad Cream
Exclusive Karen Dempsey Heinz is dolloping £10m into a major campaign to relaunch its Salad Cream six months after threatening to dump it. As well as reassuring those who protested about the potential loss when the story broke last October,...
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T ASTING PANEL 2
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines This has a medium orange/gold colour and a rancid nose. It has a sweet rather woolly flavour. Perhaps a Golden Delicious apple flavour, but the sweetness dominates...
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spanish Tomatoes
Increasing interest in speciality varieties BonnySA plans £90m packhouse programme Vast tracts of land have already been cleared at Muchamial north of the Alicante, heartland of the Spanish tomato industries, in the first stage towards...
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food safety
Residues in 40% Pesticide residues have been found in 40% of 41,000 fruit and vegetables sampled in a European Union survey. Excessive and therefore possibly unsafe levels were however found in a much lower proportion of the samples 3%. About...
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No shrinking from the right choices with cool new lines
Britvic Soft Drinks is launching two new products aimed at kids in the next phase of its Right Choice category management programme. The first one comes from Robinsons, which is extending its brand with the launch of Fruit Shoot. This is a fruit...
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Classic answer to apple lager image
Cider is being sold as cheap lager made from apples according to Merrydown which is launching a new brand to the trade this month. As he unveiled Classic, a 4.7% abv cider made from culinary and dessert apples, sales and marketing director Kevin...
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TASTING PANELS
THE EXPERT Arabella Woodrow Master of Wine and wine buyer for Forth Wines Looks Australian, tastes Australianand is of course Italian. Dark yellow colour with a creamy grapefruit, melon and hazelnut nose. The oak is slightly less subtle than...
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TASTING PANELS
Oranges and a Caribbean beach did not say rum very clearly to our panel, who gave a mixed reception for the orange colour and flavour. Caribbean Twist From Halewood International The company is spending £1m advertising this 5.4% abv fruit...
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International fresh fruit and vegetables
Fresh produce buyers will find a wealth of ideas and new sources among the exhibitors at Expo's International Fresh Produce Fair. Providing an international flavour, Zimbabwe is bringing producers to the show to promote the high quality fruit,...
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Nurishment by ice cream
WT Foods Group is expanding its energy milk drink brand Nurishment with the launch of a new ice cream. Nurishment ice cream comes in four flavours vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and mango. It has an 18 month shelf life and it will be positioned...
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The greenery
On target for accuracy English supermarket buyers are to be provided with the most detailed information on consumer varietal preferences of tomatoes, apples and eventually peppers by The Greenery International. The Dutch marketing organisation,...
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Needlers' sharp flavours
Needler Blue Bird Confectionery Group is launching Needlers Chewies, a new sugar confectionery product. The chewy bonbon type sweets come in three fruit flavours: Luscious Strawberry, Tangy Lemon and Zingy Apple. The consumer launch is backed by a...