All Ireland articles – Page 31
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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.
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ArticleFyffes windfall to fund future expansion
Fyffes is to use its recent High Court payout on expansion
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ArticleTesco reveals plans for expansion in Ireland
Tony Keohane, Tesco Ireland’s chief executive, has announced that the retailer intends to open “six or seven stores a year, for the foreseeable future”.
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ArticleRaising Ireland’s profile
Joseph Blair, programme manager for the Irish Exporters Association and director of its horticultural division Horticulture Network Ireland, speaks to Doris Lee Butterworth about the opportunities for Irish fresh produce.
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Greenisland Flowers was the recipient of the Long Life Solutions Floral Business of the Year accolade at Re:fresh 2007
Greenisland Flowers was the recipient of the Long Life Solutions Floral Business of the Year accolade at Re:fresh 2007. Laura Gould caught up with owner Shane Donnelly to find out how things have since progressed for the Northern Irish firm.
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Irish growers get minister's support
Irish horticulture minister Trevor Sargent has spoken out in support of the campaign by the republic’s growers for improved prices from the multiples.
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ArticleIrish growers step up supermarket attack
Irish farmers have adopted name-and-shame tactics in their fight against predatory pricing by the multiples, particularly of fresh produce.
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Irish 'shroom firm lands RSA deal
A small Irish firm has clinched a deal that could see it supplying a third of South Africa’s lucrative mushroom market over the next two years.
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ArticleIrish leader attacks multiple predators
The “predatory pricing” of multiples poses as big a threat to horticulture as climate change, according to the leader of Ireland’s main farming organisation.
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Northern Ireland potato firm to shut down
The closure of a potato packer owned by 2,000 farmer shareholders in Antrim, Northern Ireland, was announced this week.
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ArticleSainsbury’s takes over Northern Ireland retailer
Sainsbury’s has taken over part of Northern Ireland’s largest independent supermarket retailer in a multi-million pound deal, it was announced today.
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ArticleFyffes invests heavily in Americas
Irish fruit distributor Fyffes Plc has announced a significant investment in melon production in Central America and bought 60 per cent of Florida-based Sol Group Marketing Company.