All articles by FPJ Staff – Page 242
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The start of Chinese invasion?
China already grows more apples than the rest of the world and is still planting hard, so I wonder if I experienced the start
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Time for blinkers to be removed
It has long seemed to me that the obvious progression for multinational retailers should be that they source on a regional,
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ArticleSeven days of chipping heaven
The new year refocuses consumers towards healthy eating and January sales of fresh fruit and vegetables were boosted, but it is the humble chip that still remains the UK’s number one dish, reports Anabella de Sousa.
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ArticleUK cues tip the balance
With tightening margins and rationalisation, English cucumber growers are being forced to balance the need for minimising overheads while producing higher volumes for longer periods. However, with the current instability of Spanish temperatures, now may be the time to invest in the technology required for year-round production. Elspeth Waters reports.
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ArticleAvailability drives growth
In this week’s profile on flowers we take a look at the retail scene and how the multiples’ move into flowers has affected the overall market. On page 16 we talk to two independent florists and ask them how they are coping with the increased competition.
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ArticleA problem shared
Increasing competition from a wide variety of outlets has not been particularly kind to the UK’s florists. Tommy Leighton talks to Diana and John Gudgeon, who run florists in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, respectively.
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The pension pitfalls
Adam Bernstein hosts a monthly look at one of the legislative aspects that most affect your business, how it is run and how it can be more profitable. This month, Peter Willis takes a look at the minefield that is pensions.In a bid to try and remove some of the confusion surrounding what has become an extremely complicated area, he outlines some of the varied options available to individuals and companies and gives examples of how much we should all be saving if we want to have a comfortable old age.
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PMA Profile
In this month’s profile on the Produce Marketing Association, the US trade association for fruit and vegetables, PMA
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Get fruity on Friday
Harriet Chan - World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) Corporate Development Never has the health of the nation been such an
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ArticleWill we now have charter for change?
A buyers’ charter appears likely to slip into the fresh produce arena in the next month and we can only hope that,
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Will we now have charter for change?
A buyers’ charter appears likely to slip into the fresh produce arena in the next month and we can only hope that,
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ArticleThe magic number
Thirteen might be unlucky for some, but for Fruit Logistica 2005, it is looking good. The show, entering its 13th year, is now one of the biggest events in the fresh produce industry calendar and will be getting underway in Berlin next week.
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ArticleRationalised thinking
Rationalisation has become more than a dirty word for some of the major players in the UK’s fresh produce industry. The country’s leading retailers have all reduced their supplier bases significantly in the last decade, as the economic and competitive realities of being a 21st century contender force fewer buyers to trust fewer suppliers to fill their fresh produce aisles. The last six weeks have seen the axe fall on several large-scale suppliers at Tesco and Sainsbury’s. But Tommy Leighton asks, is the most radical reform perhaps still to come?
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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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ArticleBleak practice
John Smith, managing director of Re:fresh Packer of the Year, Greyfriars, writes for the Journal on over-riders, which he labels the “most odious” of practices of the UK retail sector and claims are in contravention of the Office of Fair Trading’s Supermarket Code of Practice.
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ArticleA question of scale
In the first of a series of articles for the Journal, Paul Huggins, former chief executive of the Greenery UK and a businessman with 25 years experience of dealing with major retailers worldwide, gives his own slant on the direction of supplier rationalisation in the UK and concludes that companies that do not embrace the trend leave themselves open to having decisions on their future made for them.
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Unlikely team-work
A not-so-common thing happened in France recently: The FCD (retailers) and UNFD (traditional greengrocers) unions raised their
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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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ArticleScent sacrificed for volume
High volume demands for roses means scent is often being sidelined by visual quality, according to Dennis Edwards, managing director of John Austin and chairman of the New Covent Garden Flower Tenants Association.
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ArticleOut of darkness
Faced with the prospect of a steady decline, the UK and Irish mushroom industry is in need of some major investment, while Polish production continues to flourish. Tommy Leighton and Elspeth Waters report.