Banana news archive – Page 165
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Fairtrade secures banana supply
Fairtrade fruit company, AgroFair UK has announced a new, high quality supply of organic fairtrade bananas for the UK.
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Chiquita posts a profit
Chiquita is emerging froma difficult period and has posted a first-quarter profit in 2003.
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Workers buy Chiquita plant
Chiquita Brands International has announced the sale of some of its Panama assets to a workers' co-operative.
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Co-op slashes banana prices
Prices of bananas will be slashed at one leading UK supermarket next week.
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Arnie leads the way for Capespan
Arnie Apple, Olivia Orange and Freddy Fyffe will be running for charity in this weekend's London Marathon.
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Indian expansion
India is looking to boost its fresh produce exports substantially within the next five years.
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Multiples pledge Windward allegiance
Tesco and Sainsbury's have both pledged their continued support to organic and Fairtrade bananas from the Windward Islands.
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Chiquita gets certified
Chiquita Brands International has announced this week that independent auditors have certified its Costa Rican banana farms.
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Honduras grows less traditional
Agricultural authorities in Honduras have published reports highlighting how one key product could help exporters of bananas diversify their offer.
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India unveils five-year expansion plan
India's fresh produce industry puts the UK top of the list in its expansion plans.
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Sun shines for bananas
Banana sales rocketed by 25 per cent in January thanks to a joint initiative between the Banana Group and the Sun.
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UK horticulture is "marginal"
The sustainability of UK horticulture is "at best marginal", Robert Balicki, chairman of the Northcourt Group, part of Worldwide Fruit, told Horticulture in Focus.
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Fyffes reports "strong performance"
Fyffes's chairman Neil McCann has said that the company has "delivered another strong performance in its full-year results for the 12 months to 31 December 2002. However, total turnover was down six per cent to ?1.837bn.
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Honduran exports rise
A US study has found that non-traditional exports from the Central American nation are on the rise.
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Windwards worry
Windwards Bananas md Bernard Cornibert is calling for "responsible retailing" as the Wal-Mart group positions itself alongside other suitors in the race to take over Safeway and supermarket price wars on bananas continue.
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Store battle over bananas
According to UK press reports, Caribbean leaders claim a takeover of Safeway by Wal-Mart Asda will bring increased problems for the beleaguered banana industry in the Caribbean.
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Bananas to be extinct by 2013?
Researchers warn bananas could disappear within a decade unless the fruit is genetically modified.
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First Fairtrade mangoes arrive in UK supermarkets
Three UK supermarkets will stock Fairtrade mangoes for the first time from January. The Co-op, Sainsbury's and Waitrose will all stock the fairly produced fruit.