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ArticleRe:fresh your mind next week - last chance to register
Peter Durose of Tesco, Bob MacDowall from the Office of Fair Trading, Stuart Smith of Brakes, and Gillian Kynoch of The Scottish Executive are just some of the names with a platform to air their views and answer your questions during next week's Re:fresh Conference, sponsored by Prophet.
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ArticleStay fresh with Süd-Chemie
Süd-Chemie Performance Packaging, a business unit of Süd-Chemie Group, now offers a full line of solutions to protect produce and flowers from the harmful effects of ethylene gas.
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ArticleSeven and up for Redbridge
Redbridge Produce and Flowers has pioneered a scheme to bring fresh fruit to school children over the age of seven years.
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ArticleGarden tenants discuss Saphir tie-up
New Covent Garden tenants have made the first step towards taking their futures and the future of the market into their own hands.
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John Carmichael dies after illness
Glasgow wholesaler and exotics pioneer John Carmichael has died.
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ArticleA seasonal crisis
Seasonal labour requirements for the fresh produce sector will intensify in the coming weeks as harvesting of the UK’s summer crops begin, writes Anabella de Sousa. However government plans to reduce quotas for seasonal labour visas, and to curb immigration, has resulted in a backlash from farms relying on overseas workers.
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New stone sources
This week there are very positive signs that the Spanish soft-fruit industry is at last back on course with substantial
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ArticleRe:fresh Conference takes on Blair
As if to emphasise it is struggling to come up with its own ideas, the government has chosen May 5 as election day, daring to clash with this year’s Re:fresh Conference and Awards.
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ArticleOrganics for all at flower show
An organic group’s plans to promote home-grown organics at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show have been given a boost by celebrity chef James Martin.
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ArticleEurepGAP announces series of events
EurepGAP has announced a series of events for interested parties.
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ArticleNIAB notches up DNA success
Plant science specialist NIAB, has received funding to record DNA fingerprints for European rose varieties.
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ArticleAgrexco dazzles
With ever-present political and geographical issues to contend with, Israel’s horticulturists could be forgiven for opting out of the sector altogether. Yet, as Agrexco’s figures testify, exports continue to rise and growers across the board continue to dazzle Europe with their high quality produce and continual innovations, writes Elspeth Waters.
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ArticleExpansion in the air
BA World Cargo and Christian Salvesen, which manages the Heathrow Perishables Handling Centre on BAWC’s behalf, were winners of the ChileGAP Innovation of the Year award at the inaugural Re:fresh Awards ceremony last May. BAWC had already invested £15 million into its Perishable Handling Centre to cater for the needs of the rapidly growing traffic in airfreighted produce. Now a further £1m plus investment programme intends to extend the centre’s capacity to handle yet more volume in its next stage of development. Tommy Leighton reports.
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ArticleRedbridge brings rebates to wholesale
Redbridge Produce & Flowers is in the process of introducing rebate payments across its entire wholesale supply base.
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Biocontrol - the future
With the issue of pesticide residues never far from the front page, biocontrol methods are becoming a must for everyone in the
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Trap developed for strawberry pest
Scientists have developed a special trap to tackle a persistent pest to strawberry crops.
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ArticleBA World Cargo launches Constant Fresh
British Airways World Cargo has launched its new global perishables product, Constant Fresh, as part of a £1 million investment in its perishables handling service at Heathrow.
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ArticleMills praised at retirement function
Outgoing chairman of Covent Garden Market Authority Leif Mills was praised by his successor Brenda Dean and Defra minister Lord Whitty at a retirement function on Tuesday.
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ArticleCardiff still hunts elusive pot of gold
Cardiff Wholesale Market has less horticultural tenants than it used to, but one more than was the case at the beginning of the year. In its 40th year on the same site, the market has benefited from the expansion of the catering trade in Wales’s capital city, but still exhibits the same traits as many of its counterpart markets in the UK. Tommy Leighton reports.
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Russian ban averted
The EU and Russia have come to an agreement on EU plant and vegetable sendings.