Salad vegetables news archive – Page 50
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Florette brings baby kale to UK retailers
Salad brand says baby kale is a £3.3m opportunity for single leaf sector and confirms “massive marketing” push will follow
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Eurofruit on BBC to discuss Chiquita deal
Eurofruit's Mike Knowles and Chris White were both at the BBC during the past week to offer expert opinion on the chase for Chiquita
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Advisory firms split on ChiquitaFyffes
Influential group ISS says it now supports Chiquita's plan to merge with Fyffes, while Glass Lewis remains opposed
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Chiquita names new vice president for Fresh Express
PMA board member and Chiquita veteran, Craig Stephen, will head up salads convenience arm as it expands value-added and private label
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Fyffes responds to new Brazilian bid
Irish company tells shareholders and analysts that planned merger deal with Chiquita still represents best value
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Freshtime hires Bakkavor-trained marketing manager
Claire Matson joins prepared company Freshtime as MD says more new recruits are ‘expected to follow’
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Pulp-growing isn't fiction for Vitacress
Numerous studies undertaken by Vitacress have identified the wood pulp substrate to be the optimum method of crop production
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IFCO joins salad bar promotion
Reusable packaging solutions specialist contributes salad bars to five Detroit-area schools in the US
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Wild Country Organics and Ocado win organics awards
Organics salad producer and online retailer take prizes for fresh category and best retailer in annual Soil Association awards
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Salad yields boosted by vertical system
A vertical growing system that optimises space in glasshouses has shown it could more than double yields in salads and berries
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Watercress set for £150k PR drive
Good For Every Body's aim is to communicate that watercress is uniquely healthy, delicious, versatile and easy to prepare.
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Fyffes tries to woo Chiquita investors
Improved merger deal would see shareholders in Chiquita own significantly larger percentage of new company
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Japan unveils factory farm
Japan's Osaka University has opened a new factory to commercially grow lettuce under artificial light
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Video: Growing Underground
Two entrepreneurs have turned their vision of a sustainable food business into a salad farm underneath south London. Nina Pullman reports
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Flower Sprouts renamed for US
Tozer Seeds launch sprout kale hybrid in the US under new name Kalettes to reach kale-loving American consumers
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Downy Mildew threat for spinach growers
New strain of the virus could overcome existing genetic resistance of some varieties of Downy Mildew covering races 1 - 14
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Dutch campaign 'could become' national brand
A campaign launched by Dutch growers to boost domestic consumption of Russia surplus has reached 10 per cent of the population
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'Nobody' eats takeaway salad
Survey finds that more than 99 per cent of people throwaway the salad they receive with takeaway meals such as curries and kebabs
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Vitacress bullish despite pre-tax loss
Pre-tax loss of nearly £1.3m, but salad giant points to its rising EBITDA figure, as sign of having had a good year
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O'Keefe fronts new pepper cookbook
Great British Pepper Cookbook to inform readers about growing, preparing and cooking using the versatile salad veg