All articles by Tommy Leighton – Page 4
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Scots analyse food and drink potential
Scotland Food & Drink holds inaugural AGM to analyse nation’s actions and options.
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ArticleAsda growth slows, but Bond makes £1m
Fines and legal costs related to two separate OFT probes dragged Asda’s profits down to £560 million last year, but chief executive Andy Bond saw his pay packet bulge by 55 per cent to more than £1m.
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New ENZA general manager on PNZ board
Michael ‘Snow’ Hardy has been appointed a director of Pipfruit New Zealand, filling the role previously performed by Turners and Growers (T&G) managing director Jeff Wesley, who resigned from the post.
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Dunnes staff deserve Asda explanation
According to today’s Belfast Telegraph, Mandate, the trade union representing staff at Ireland’s largest retailer Dunnes Stores, has written to the company seeking clarification of rumours that it may be taken over by Asda.
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Waitrose opens first Dubai store
Waitrose today opened the first of two stores in Dubai - its first shops outside the UK.
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Nutrition in NHS at tipping point
Nutrition care and treatment has reached its tipping point, but the NHS may have turned a corner.
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ArticleM&S profits slump 34 per cent
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced a 34 per cent drop in half-year profits and plans to significantly reduce costs to regain its competitiveness on the high street
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ArticleJamaica PM calls time on bananas
Jamaica’s prime minister Bruce Golding increased the gloom enveloping the island’s banana industry with a doom-laden prognosis for it the future, during a sitting of the House of Representatives last week.
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ArticleEmission specs ignore uniqueness of horticulture
The launch of a new specification for assessing the life cycle of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of goods and services has been welcomed by farmers and growers as “a step in the right direction”. But concerns persist that PAS 2050 does not sufficiently recognise some of the unique elements of horticulture.
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Times signals Tesco supplier "revolt"
The Sunday Times reports that food manufacturers are resisting pressure from the UK’s number-one supermarket group to reduce prices and increase kickbacks.
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Scot study points to loose money saving
A survey undertaken in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, has revealed that shoppers can dramatically reduce their bills by buying loose fresh produce.
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ArticleDentressangle reports huge sales growth
Economic situation will dampen fourth quarter performance at Norbert Dentressangle after steady growth in revenue at end-September 2008.
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ArticleNew health properties found in grape
A US study has found that eating grapes may help lower blood pressure and protect against heart disease.
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ArticleBusiness blooms for online flower retailer
Managing director of Nottingham-based Bunches.co.uk, one of the UK’s largest independent online flower retailers, has accelerated her company’s turnover to more than £5 million with assistance from Vistage International, the world’s leading chief executives’ organisation.
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ArticleMarkets show recovery shoots
After years of often self-inflicted decline, the UK’s markets are showing signs of recovery, Krys Zasada, pictured, told delegates at the London Markets Symposium.
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Spanish government may calm Murcia waters
The Spanish environment ministry has mooted the possible construction of an East-West water transfer system for the country's second largest fresh produce production area, Murcia.
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ArticleMPs voice pesticide law worries
Serious concerns have been voiced by MPs and Lords about the lack of science at the foundation of EU proposals to restrict pesticide availability.
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ArticleMarshall calls London markets to arms
The London Markets Symposium, at City Hall last week, was brought to life by an impassioned presentation on behalf of all London wholesalers by Gary Marshall, chairman of Covent Garden Tenants’ Association (CGTA).
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ArticleBoycott builds case for London markets
At last week’s London Markets Symposium, Rosie Boycott told delegates from more than 20 London boroughs, as well as food groups and markets of all descriptions that wholesale markets are key to the London Food Strategy.
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ArticleSainsbury's tackles Brussels produce laws
Sainsbury's has written to the European agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel and British environment secretary Hilary Benn in a bid to pressurise bureaucrats to relax strict rules on the size, shape and appearance of fresh produce.