All Ireland articles – Page 30
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ArticleDole and Weichert fined €60.3m
EC antitrust authorities find banana companies guilty of colluding on prices between January 2000 and December 2002
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Organic study launched for Irish region
Ireland’s minister for food and horticulture is launching an organic feasibility study in the region of Kerry, according to the Irish Times.
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ArticleStellar Stena tops Irish charts
Stena Line Freight has won the Shipping Line of the Year award at the prestigious Export & Freight Transport & Logistics Awards 2008, the premier event in the Irish transport calendar.
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ArticleFyffes suffers €7m loss on EWL
The Irish group has written off money owed to it by the Dutch shipping company
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ArticleFyffes reports revenue growth
Despite big increases in the costs of fruit, shipping and fuel, Fyffes has announced growth in revenue and profit
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ArticleTotal Produce reveals "satisfactory" results
The first half of 2008 has seen revenue and profit growth, and acquisitions completed at the Irish company
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Irish growers feel force of floods
One of the wettest Augusts since records begun has wreaked havoc on the Irish potato crop, with tubers rotting in fields submerged by monsoon-like downpours.
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ArticleFyffes lowers 2008 earnings forecast
Downturn in anticipated second-half earnings prompted by rising costs, changing currency rates and prices "below expectations"
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EU approves Total Produce, Univeg deals
Two major acquisitions have been cleared after the EC ruled that neither would diminish competition in Europe
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ArticleRetail Focus | UK & Ireland
The success of discount retailers could force the hands of the traditional market leaders in the UK and Ireland
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ArticleIrish multiples spark mark-up fury
A survey claiming that the mark-up multiples charge on vegetables in the Irish Republic can be as high as 250 per cent has provoked a storm of protest, with demands for government intervention.
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ArticleTotal Produce targets fresh acquisitions
In an interview with Eurofruit Magazine, CEO Rory Byrne has underlined the company's plans to double its turnover by 2012
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EC sets Total Produce Haluco deadline
Total Produce's proposed acquisition of Haluco, which was announced in May, is to be investigated by the European Commision
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Fyffes confirms earnings forecast
Despite rising fuel costs and "relatively more difficult" market conditions, Fyffes is expecting a slight increase in its earnings for 2008
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ArticleIrish join forces on potato blight
Research teams from both parts of Ireland have got together for the first time to tackle potato blight, a disease that devastated much of the country more than 150 years ago.
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ArticleTata teams up with Total Produce
Joint venture company Khet-Se Agriproduce India has begun operating in the Punjab and will open a second DC shortly
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ArticleIrish in organic drive
A major drive to increase organic production in the Irish Republic is to get underway shortly, to take advantage of the millions of euros spent on imported fruit and vegetables.
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Flavin quits as Fyffes case takes new twist
In a new twist to the long running saga, DCC founder Jim Flavin has resigned as its executive chairman following a move by the official enforcer of corporate law, Paul Appleby, who wants the Irish High Court to appoint inspectors to investigate how DCC sold a major stake in fruit importer Fyffes in 2000
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ArticleIreland's strawberries to boom
The Irish strawberry industry is expecting good growth in the next five years
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Reversal of fortunes for Irish soft fruit
The Irish strawberry industry - once the Cinderella of the country’s horticulture sector, serving mainly processors - has been transformed into a success story, a national soft-fruit conference in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, was told this week.