All articles by Tommy Leighton – Page 50

  • Keelings wins top Irish grower award
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    Keelings wins top Irish grower award

    2007-04-09T08:01:01Z

    Keelings Salads has won the Bord Bia Best Grower of the Year Award, presented to the growers that best represents exceptional standards in production and handling of fresh produce.

  • US consumers regaining confidence in produce
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    US consumers regaining confidence in produce

    2007-04-08T14:01:01Z

    Consumer confidence about produce safety is improving in the US after a difficult period, but the industry is expected to come good on its promised improvements.

  • Chilled cabinets could be on way out
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    Chilled cabinets could be on way out

    2007-04-08T11:01:01Z

    The major UK retailers have combined to challenge manufacturers of chilled and frozen display cabinets to find natural alternatives to environmentally-damaging HFC refrigerants.

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    BRC exports standard to China

    2007-04-07T14:01:01Z

    The British Retail Consortium (BRC) will break new ground by introducing a Chinese version of its global standard for consumer products in Asia later this month.

  • Scots back their farming industry
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    Scots back their farming industry

    2007-04-07T10:01:01Z

    In a poll conducted on behalf of BBC Scotland, voters in Scotland have shown enormous support for Scottish farming by placing it fifth in a list of important election issues.

  • Peter Ireland, gesticulating centre, and Simon Coupe, far right, join Flavourfresh directors at the animated opening of a new £650,000 block of glass
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    New glass on the block

    2007-04-07T09:01:01Z

    Marks & Spencer salad buyer Peter Ireland and salad technologist Dr Simon Coupe opened Flavourfresh Salads’ new one-hectare glass block in Southport, Lancashire.

  • Ellis Whittel Williams, Wye Valley, Cobrey Farm manager, with Kat Fay, new product developer, and Sian Pickard, business development manager, Flamingo UK
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    Gras off to a flyer

    2007-04-06T18:01:01Z

    Borough Market trader Elsey & Bent held a tasting last week to mark the beginning of the English asparagus season.

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    Waitrose's Williamson moves up

    2007-04-06T14:01:01Z

    Mark Williamson has been appointed to the Waitrose management board and the post of supply chain director by John Lewis Partnership.

  • Sainsbury's bid finally tabled
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    Sainsbury's bid finally tabled

    2007-04-06T09:59:03Z

    A bid for Sainsbury’s has reportedly been tabled by private equity groups, but according to the national media, family shareholders are not in favour.

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    Aspire take-up will be strong in UK

    2007-04-05T14:01:01Z

    Hargeaves Plants, which represents the intellectual property rights for AspireUK, the New Zealand root analysis validated for the UK at last week’s Asparagus Growers' Association workshop, is expecting a "strong response” from the domestic industry.

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    €113,000 for ‘exploited’ mushroom pickers

    2007-04-05T11:01:01Z

    Eight mushroom pickers from eastern Europe, who worked long hours on a farm in the Irish midlands for less than half the statutory minimum wage, have been awarded a total of over €113,000 in a back pay settlement.

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    Somerfield has Easter egg on face

    2007-04-05T10:01:01Z

    Somerfield was left with Easter egg all over its face when its PR department mistakenly told the world that handing out chocolate eggs symbolises "the birth of Jesus."

  • Ed Garner
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    TNS: top three in fine fettle

    2007-04-05T09:04:04Z

    Latest TNS figures show top three supermarkets performing well above retail industry average.

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    Sainsbury's trustees unaware of imminent bid

    2007-04-05T09:01:01Z

    A spokesman for Sainsbury's pension trustees said yesterday that the trustees are unaware of any imminent bid for the supermarket chain, after traders cited market talk that a private equity offer is in the pipeline.

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    Spalding labour provider has licence revoked

    2007-04-04T15:01:01Z

    Lincolnshire-based labour provider AAA Personnel Ltd has become the first company in the region to have its licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).

  • Eat in Colour tackles chocolate footprint
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    Eat in Colour tackles chocolate footprint

    2007-04-03T08:01:01Z

    The industry’s Eat in Colour campaign has launched an Easter initiative to get the nation enjoying more fruit and veg - and measure their chocolate footprint

  • It's a WRAP, as M&S repackages salad range
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    It's a WRAP, as M&S repackages salad range

    2007-04-02T08:01:01Z

    Following a WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) funded project trialing a new way to seal flexible film bags and pouches, the product is being rolled out across the Marks & Spencer (M&S) salad category.

  • From far left: Robert Oldershaw Jr, MBC account director, David Hodgson, md, Robert Oldershaw Snr, chairman, Mick Stewart, factory manager, and Claire Young, Waitrose prepared buyer, with MBC staff at new facility
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    MBC opens new onion processing plant

    2007-03-31T09:01:01Z

    A newly refurbished onion-processing factory to provide retail packs of prepared allium crops to the retail sector came online in Lincolnshire this week.

  • AVA in Tesco six weeks early
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    AVA in Tesco six weeks early

    2007-03-30T16:01:01Z

    Award-winning strawberry AVA has hit Tesco stores this week -some six weeks earlier than in previous seasons.

  • Rob Lucas, market manager, Liverpool wholesale market, Tony Fraser, deputy chief executive, Geraud UK, Jean-Michel Gressard, French consultant, and Geoff Wells, president, Liverpool tenants' association
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    Geraud looks to score for Liverpool

    2007-03-30T11:01:01Z

    Geraud UK, owner of Liverpool wholesale fruit and vegetable market, has this week begun a nine-week evaluation of the market’s potential with a view to creating a “future-proof” market for the north-west.