Grape news archive – Page 104
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ArticleProduce fit for a Queen
To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, FPJ shines a spotlight on some of the businesses that have helped make the trade what it is today. By way of introduction, David Shapley looks back at how the industry has changed since Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne
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ArticleNorth American grapes off to early start
The Mexican and Californian table grape deals are off to an early start this season, thanks to good growing conditions
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ArticlePeru exports grow on back of produce sendings
Peru’s agricultural exports are projected to grow 15 per cent this year.
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ArticleGrape sales move into overdrive
The grape category is enjoying impressive growth with an increase in both spend and volume thanks to burgeoning crops and canny retail promotions
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The freshness and variety of produce
While It’s Fresh! has been in stores for some months with giant avocados, berries, pears and melons, its use has now
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ArticleGrowth for Mexican table grapes
Half of this year’s 16.5m-carton export crop will enter the US market between 25 May and 15 June
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ArticleBahia focuses on certification
The Brazilian region's grape growers are improving their certification programme in order to access more foreign markets
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ArticleYear-on-year Indian grape exports surge
India charts healthy growth of 63.7 per cent in its table grape exports so far this season, according to reports in the country
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ArticleSouth African grapes tracking above 2011
The South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) has reported that packing in all regions in complete apart from the Hex Valley where only 12 packhouses were still packing Dauphine and Crimson Seedless this week.
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Unifresh in fresh melon and apple deals
Unifresh will soon be supplying caterers and processors with cantaloupe and watermelon in a new departure for the Kent-based importer and has been granted a licence for the supply of Cripps Pink apples to the sector.
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ArticleChileans launch new black grape
Chile’s farm minister Luis Mayol has unveiled a new grape variety developed by researchers in the country.
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ArticleKent seedless grape trial targets 2016 crop
Seedless grapes grown in Kent could be available on supermarket shelves in 2016 if an experimental project to grow the crop proves a success.
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Defying the recession with new investment
Perhaps the least surprising news of the year came this week with the announcement the UK is back in recession, and it would
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ArticleFull recovery on the cards for Indian grapes
Two years after a shipment of Indian grapes to Sweden exceeded an EU maximum residue level, European importers are optimistic that the market will return to normal this season, writes Tobias Gourlay
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ArticleGrapes 'may protect heart health'
Consuming table grapes could protect against heart issues in people with metabolic syndrome
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ArticleChile launches new grape variety
Iniagrape-one will offer Chilean table grape suppliers a new opportunity to satisfy global consumer and market demands
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ArticleIndian hopes for German grape recovery
India has sent 120 containers of grapes to Germany to fill retailer orders, spurring hopes the market might overcome its chlormequat concerns
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Brands finding a place on retail shelves
Charles Dickens, writing The Pickwick Papers, immortalised the Garden of England’s reputation for apples, pears, hops
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ArticleFruit sendings rise at Chilean port
Fruit sendings from Chile’s major fresh produce export port Terminal Pacifico Sur Valparaiso (TPS) rose by 16 per cent year on year for the season from November 2011 to the end of March 2012.
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ArticleTough grape season for RSA growers
As the last grapes are packed in the Hex River region, South African grape growers are licking their wounds