Banana news archive – Page 154
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Pre-packs skew banana figures
As bananas suffer 40 per cent price deflation since 2000, pre-pack sales climb.
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ArticleJP’s creative juices flow
Jamaica Producers Fruit Distributors (JPFD) is best-known as a banana supplier, but its work in citrus takes in the retail and juicing categories, as well as playing a significant role in the National School Fruit & Vegetable Scheme (NSFVS). Tommy Leighton reports.
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ArticleJuice loses innocence
While citrus juice has long been a staple of the modern diet, the ever-increasing market for exotic juice combinations could be stealing the limelight from the faithful orange and grapefruit. In addition, with health specialists having set juice as the latest culprit in the global obesity epidemic, juice producers may have to address their marketing strategies, writes Elspeth Waters.
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ArticleEnza-owner posts profit dip
Turners & Growers Ltd has posted a full year profit of NZ$9.72 million, beating forecasts by 13 per cent, but falling below the previous year’s performance levels.
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ArticleChiquita to acquire Fresh Express
Chiquita has taken a huge stride forward into the US value-added market with the acquisition of Fresh Express.
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ArticleFyffes: Conversations played in court
DCC chief executive Jim Flavin asked a stockbroker not to speak to Fyffes about a possible sale of his companies stake in the banana giant, Dublin High Court heard this week.
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ArticleTesco fuels war with banana price drop
Tesco has upped the ante again in the banana price war by dropping prices on its Value offer to just 59p a kilo.
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Uganda close to developing GM banana
A young scientist at Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute in Uganda is set to boost banana production in the east African nation.
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ArticleTaste still tops consumer purchasing inluences
New research by the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) that explored what makes consumers decide to buy fresh produce has found that taste remains the top purchase influencer.
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ArticleNew banana regime proposed
The European Union formally proposed its new tariff-only banana import regime to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this week.
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ArticleChiquita's €564m claim chucked out by court
Chiquita Brands International Inc, the world's largest banana producer, has had a €564 million damages claim against regulators dismissed by the European Union's second-highest court.
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ArticleWill being rational save your skin?
As the fresh produce world gathers in Berlin next week, supplier rationalisation is undoubtedly the number one issue preying
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ArticleThe future of bananas
With the possibility of an all-out banana war looming on the retail horizon, industry expert Gordon Myers says the supermarkets’ strategies couldn’t have come at a worse time for the banana industry.
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Will being rational save your skin?
As the fresh produce world gathers in Berlin next week, supplier rationalisation is undoubtedly the number one issue preying
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ArticleBananas hit supply glitch
Fears of a banana price war among the major multiples resurfaced this week as Tesco and Sainsbury’s lowered prices in their value lines in response to Asda, while banana supply on the wholesale markets was the shortest it has been for nearly four years.
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Retailers bent on bananas
Who would want to be in the banana business these days? A once profitable and vibrant industry is slowly being driven into the
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Low cost option for Uganda
Banana exporters who have been transporting produce by air to Europe are closely watching a trial shipment by land and sea via the Kenyan port of Mombasa that could spell lower costs.
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ArticleAsda's Smartprice "lunacy"
Asda has taken banana prices to a new low in the launch of its Smartprice on produce and come in for trade criticism.
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Chiquita wins full certification
Chiquita Brands International has achieved international labour standard certification across all its Latin American farms.
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Costa Rica rains continue
Intermittent rainfall has continued in coastal Costa Rica following last week's floods as the country counts the cost to export crops.