Banana news archive – Page 152
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ArticleSainsbury’s makes massive Fairtrade move
In the world’s biggest conversion of its kind, Sainsbury’s has announced it will be the first UK retailer to convert its entire banana range to Fairtrade.
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Banana-skin envelopes to help Indian communities
Banana-skin stationery is set to bring jobs and sustainability to Indian communities as part of a range by Wiltshire-based national procurement and fulfillment company The Consortium.
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Agrofair crosses the pond
Fairtrade fruit company AgroFair has announced the opening of a new joint venture sales and marketing office in the US.
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Banana shipping breakthrough
Irish fresh produce multi-national Fyffes has signed a long-term contract to ship bananas in cool containers.
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ArticleHonduras prepares WTO complaint
Honduras is following Ecuador’s lead and is preparing to lodge an official complaint with the World Trade Organisation over the EU banana import regime.
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Banana secrets revealed
Despite bananas’ sporty, youthful image, latest figures from market analyst TNS on the UK banana market show it is eaten most my the middle-aged and older.
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Blythman berating again
Tesco and Waitrose have commissioned independent investigations into supplies of Costa Rican pineapples following an article by notorious food writer Joanna Blythman in The Observer last Sunday.
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ArticleBanana trade splinters
Developments this week in the banana arena have sent splits running through both the Latin American and EU banana camps.
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Europeans back banana quota
The European banana management committee has given its backing to the European Commission proposal for an import quota of 775,000 tonnes of bananas from ACP countries in 2007.
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It’s your duty to know the import ins and outs
Adam Bernstein hosts the FPJ’s monthly spotlight on the legislation that affects your business, and how you can use it to your advantage. This month, Steve Kettle outlines some of the fundamentals when importing goods into the UK
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Bananas escape MMD fire
A small fire at MMD in Portsmouth is reported by staff to have had no effect on bananas being stored at the company’s warehouse in the city’s Flathouse Quay.
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ArticleChiquita makes losses in third quarter
Chiquita Brands has reported a loss of $96 million (£49m) in the third quarter of its financial year.
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Selling sustainability in an attractive fashion
Nico Roozen, director of Dutch development organisation Solidaridad, pioneered the concept of Fairtrade. To mark the 10th anniversary of the first Fairtrade banana export to the UK this month, he talks to Elspeth Waters about his future expectations.
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ArticleEcuador inches closer to WTO complaint
Ecuador’s trade minister Tomás Peribonio has slammed the EU’s €176 a tonne banana tariff as discriminatory as his country moves closer to taking the EU to the World Trade Organisation.
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ArticleEuropean produce CMO set for reform
The European Parliament Inter-group for fruit and vegetables has announced plans to reform the sector’s Common Market Organisation (CMO).
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Noboa in line to be Ecuadorian president
Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador’s richest man and the owner and driving force behind its largest banana plantation has thrown an unexpected spanner into the country’s presidential race.
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ArticleBanana reporting stalled
The Norwegian trade minister Johanes Store, charged by the World Trade Organisation to report on the impact of the new EU banana import regime has asked for a three-month extension.
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ArticleUK looms in Ecuadorian eyeline
Three out of every 10 bananas eaten in the world are produced in Ecuador. Now Ecuadorian producers are stepping into new territory with a promotional push in the UK. Anna Sbuttoni reports from Ecuador.
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ArticleDole completes JP shares purchase
Jamaica Producers Group Limited (JPG) yesterday accepted an offer from Dole for the purchase of JPG’s 65 per cent interest in the UK’s JP Fruit Distributors.