Banana news archive – Page 122
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ArticleThe freshinfo year - January
Calls for restrictions on junk food adverts... Keelings shuts B-Prepared... Tesco struggles in US... Weather wreaks havoc on supplies... What else made your January top 10?
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Ecuador pushes EU in banana row
Ecuador has urged the European Union (EU) to settle their long and resentful dispute over banana exports to demonstrate its credentials on protectionism.
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EU urged to end “illegal” tariffs
Ecuador’s banana sector has urged the EU to stand by its pro-free trade statements and end its “illegal” banana import tariff system
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ArticleCosta Rica closes in on footprint
The country’s banana sector is well on its way to becoming carbon neutral in four years' time
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Booths on the money with local agenda
Booths’ fresh produce buyer Chris Treble explains to David Shapley why the supermarket has prospered and why he is confident the northern chain, which started life as a high-street grocer in the 1800s, can enjoy further growth.
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ArticleEcuador’s banana sector calls for lower tariffs
The country’s national banana association has called on the Port of Guayaquil to lower its charges to ease cost pressures on exporters
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ArticleCosta Rica measures banana footprint
The banana industry in Costa Rica expects to have calculated its carbon footprint in 18-24 months’ time, as part of efforts to become carbon neutral by 2012.
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Ethical trade must not take back seat
A well-known academic staunchly insisted last week that ethical shopping will not fall off the agenda simply as a result of
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Reliance eyes UK with Indian bananas
Indian produce giant Reliance Retail is planning to export bananas to the UK.
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Ethiopian hopes pinned on banana exports
Efforts are underway to enable Ethiopia to supply bananas to the world market for the first time, according to an Ethiopian investor engaged in banana cultivation.
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ArticleEcuador grows impatient over banana deal
The country has threatened to impose sanctions on the EU as the banana row rumbles on
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ArticleTrade relieved at new-found stability in Portsmouth
The banana industry entered 2008 with uncertainty hanging over its major artery into the UK. Mainland Market Deliveries (MMD), stevedore and distributor at the port of Portsmouth, was facing the possibility of going into administration and its customers in the banana trade were understandably a little nervy. As the year ends, calm has been restored. Tommy Leighton reports.
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ArticleCosta Rica suffers weather losses
Costa Rica’s banana production has been affected by heavy rainfall over the last two weeks.
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Aus banana growers appeal Philippine access
Australia’s banana growers have lodged an appeal against the decision to allow Philippine bananas into the country
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ArticleDole extends banana cartel fine timeframe
The group will have an additional three months to pay the fine imposed by the EC in October
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Chiquita reports banana price rise
Chiquita Brands International has reported year-over-year increases in local banana prices in all its markets for October-November 2008, on generally flat volumes.
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ArticleRain hits Costa Rican bananas
Up to 10,000ha of bananas could be lost, according to local press reports in the country
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ArticleMoroccan goods head to Portsmouth
The port of Portsmouth is seeing a rapid expansion in the volume of Moroccan produce arriving this season, both for UK and continental customers.
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ArticleEU banana talks could start afresh
Discussions between the EU and Latin American banana exporters could return to square one when World Trade Organisation talks resume
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ArticleTied up in Notts
The third of our features on Total Produce’s UK wholesale market operation takes FPJ to Nottingham. Like Gateshead in the North East, which featured last month, only three fruiterers remain in the East Midlands market, but the model developed in Nottingham typifies the direction that Total Produce wants to see its market companies take. Tommy Leighton reports.