Potato news archive – Page 76
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ArticleGreenvale to float on stock exchange
The holding company behind Greenvale is to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as it looks to raise £15 million.
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Epitrix beetle threatens
The Food & Environment Research Agency (FERA) is consulting with the potato sector on proposals to introduce emergency measures against the flea beetle Epitrix.
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ArticleIsrael’s winter wonders
Growers and exporters are preparing to fill UK shelves with new season winter lines and even though concerns remain over the state of the UK economy and the exchange rate, producers are hoping the quality of their crops will win consumers over. Doris Lee Butterworth discusses prospects with leading producers
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ArticleGreenvale champions water project
Greenvale’s Project Cascade vegetable cleaning system has saved more than sixty million litres of water, slashing consumption by 75 per cent at the company’s fresh potato processing plant at Tern Hill, Shropshire, one year after trial operations began.
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ArticleFreshgro slices through debts
Producer organisation and vegetable-growing co-operative Fresh Growers Ltd (Freshgro) has reduced net debt and will be launching new products in 2011, despite a slight fall in turnover.
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ArticleAlbert Bartlett launches new brand
Scottish supplier Albert Bartlett has tapped into its rich heritage in launching a new potato brand into Asda.
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ArticleHuge increase in UK veg self-sufficiency urged
The Fruit and Vegetables Task Force has demanded widespread change from government and industry to attain huge increases in self-sufficiency.
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ArticlePotato push shows new spud face
The UK is at the forefront of a new pan-European programme, The Many Faces of Potatoes, aimed at arresting the decline in potato consumption.
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ArticleSweet potato pressure eases
The sweet potato job has received a welcome boost with a bumper crop from Carolina set to ease pressures created by “monsoon-like rains” and “catastrophic flooding”.
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Retailers look for the novel to stand out in the crowd
Every retailer wants to stand out from the crowd and there is no harm in that. To cement this concept in shoppers’
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ArticleRed spud hits Tesco
Hot on the heels of its purple potato, Albert Bartlett has launched its red and cream Apache potato into Tesco.
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ArticlePurple potatoes arrive in Sainsbury's
Potatoes have been the talk of the town this week as the UK’s first purple variety went into Sainsbury’s stores.
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Puffin bids farewell to Cocks
Puffin Produce director Peter Cocks has retired after more than 20 years at the Welsh potato supplier.
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ArticleCertis adds to potato portfolio
Crop protection firm Certis have taken over the marketing of imazalil-based potato fungicide Fungazil 100 SL.
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ArticleDeal or no deal?
The number of discount and multi-buy promotions run by retailers has hit record levels in the past year. But, asks Michael Barker, are the supermarkets’ promotional strategies sustainable or will they have no option but to scale back?
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ArticlePrepared fruit and veg sector emerges well from recession
Innovation and the prepared fruit and vegetable industry go hand in hand, and as the country emerges out of the recession fitter and leaner, retailers are becoming more adventurous with their fresh-cut and prepared ranges. And a wide range of new product development is increasingly finding its way onto shelves, as Elizabeth O’Keefe reports
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Government needs to make its mind up fast
The mess that is the government’s handling of the future of quangos is fast becoming one of the first big embarrassments
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ArticleRussia could lift potato import duty
Estimated 10 per cent fall in production following recent heatwave prompts government to consider lifting tariff
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ArticleAustralian group launches new potato
The South Australian Potato Company has released its new Kestrel variety, marketing it under a “Purple = Taste” campaign
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ArticleAlgeria set for spud exports
The Algerian minister of agriculture has revealed that the country's potato farmers are now ready to export