All Fresh produce articles – Page 96
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NewsUS grape shortage puts sourcing spotlight on EU
Retailers may be forced to turn to Europe for more of their own-label wine as the price of Californian wine rises. The weakening US dollar has made it more expensive for America to import wines, boosting demand for domestic products. This...
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NewsYouths get soft drinks with a Twiss
A new carbonated soft drinks brand offering flavours with a twist is rolling out to independents. The Twiss range, targeted at the youth market, comprises Lemon with a twist of Mint, Mango with a twist of Lime and Passionfruit with a...
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NewsCopella and Bottle Green warm to the idea of winter juice
Juice drink suppliers are hoping to turn the heat up this winter with products designed to be served hot. PepsiCo apple juice brand Copella and cordials producer Bottle Green are both aiming to bring incremental growth to the market by...
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NewsPoor harvests squeeze blackcurrant supplies
Fresh blackcurrants and products such as blackcurrant cordials and jams could become more expensive following poor harvests in Europe and New Zealand, which have put a squeeze on supplies. The price of blackcurrant concentrate used in...
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NewsNew Juna juices give a taste of the exotic
If your customers have become blasé about passion fruit juice, perhaps it's time to offer them a taste of lulo. It is one of four chilled fruit juice flavours offered by start-up business Juna, a German-Colombian outfit that is donating...
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NewsBrits get adventurous with more exotic fruit
Brits are getting increasingly adventurous in the fruit aisle, with exotics such as pomegranates and persimmons thriving while sales of better-known exotics such as mangoes and pineapples are declining. Total volumes for these...
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Dole Europe restructures fresh fruit business
Dole is to shake up to its fresh fruit operations in Northern Europe to better focus on its different product lines and boost growth. The reorganisation will result in the creation of two new divisions - the Tropical Fruit Division will focus....
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NewsPGI status is target for Lea Valley cucumbers
Cucumbers could join the ranks of the Cornish Pasty, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and Kentish Ale as a food with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status. Growers are hoping to submit an application for the Lea Valley cucumber, which…
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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.