News from FPJ – Page 470
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ArticleNew home for wholesale market 'to get green light'
Officers at Birmingham City Council have reportedly wholeheartedly recommended plans for the city's new fruit and veg market for approval
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ArticleEx-Tesco boss 'to be quizzed' over accounts black hole
Philip Clarke is expected to be interviewed by the Serious Fraud Office over Tesco's £326m accounting black hole
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ArticleAvocado supplier on verge of being £100m business
Greencell has increased its turnover for the year ending 27 December 2014 to £99.5m, up from the revised 2013 figure of £75.7m
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ArticleWholesalers prepare for product price hikes
Chillies, tomatoes and cucumbers costing more than usual due to a variety of weather difficulties
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ArticleS&A Produce enjoys strong financial year
Pre-tax profit rose to £2m in 2014, according to accounts held at Companies House, up from £863,574 in 2013
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ArticleSensing change in crop management
In the second of the winning MDS synoptic papers, Mark Ryder looks at how remote sensing technologies will play a key role in the future of agriculture
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ArticleSmall talk, big problem
FPJ is publishing the two winning synoptic papers from the most recent crop of MDS graduates. In the first, Anna Williams looks at how the fresh produce industry’s impending skills gap can be tackled
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ArticlePurple potatoes 'may help limit the spread of cancer'
Research found that baked purple-fleshed potatoes suppressed the growth of colon cancer tumours by targeting the cancer's stem cells
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ArticleSainsbury's staff get 'highest pay rise in more than a decade'
137,000 of retail giant's workers will see their pay rise from £7.08 an hour to £7.36 from the end of this month.
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ArticleWoman defrauds Innocent in fruit and veg scam
Accountant overpaid fruit and veg suppliers to smoothie giant before asking them to repay the money into her own account
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ArticleSainsbury's enjoys first growth in sales since March
The latest Kantar Worldpanel data on grocery market share shows continued sluggish growth in the British grocery market
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ArticleOrange prices up and new EU season supply down
EU orange prices have increased 13 per cent year on year due to lower domestic production - hindered by rain - expected for 2015
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ArticleAll eyes on China as investors seek quality
Moneycorp's Chris Redfern on the fallout of the Chinese situation on the global FX markets
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ArticleOnline 'easiest way' to buy locally-grown organic produce
In a new survey, 60.2 per cent of respondents cited this as the factor they most liked about a veg box delivery
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ArticleSix in ten UK children 'clueless' about origin of fruit
The findings come from a study conducted among over 1,000 British children, aged six to ten years old
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ArticleQueen congratulates Blue Skies staff at award reception
Andre Veldsman and Mary Cudjoe of Northamptonshire-based fresh-cut fruit giant met Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh
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ArticleOrganic funding bid is potential ‘game-changer’
If successful, a new bid could see the EU match 80 per cent of industry funding for the ‘Organic. Naturally Different’ campaign
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ArticleFirm set up to try and create 'safer' fruit and veg
Swansea-based Bionema has been created to produce biopesticides like certain types of fungi, bacteria, worms and viruses
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ArticleGrowers face ‘worst aphid infestation in living memory’
Cauliflower and broccoli shortages across Lincolnshire and East Anglia are due to abnormally high numbers of aphids
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ArticleSeasoned food industry man named new Farmcare FD
Rob Argyle joins the top fruit and potato business formerly owned by The co-op as finance director after 14 years with The Hain Daniels Group