All United Kingdom articles – Page 482
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AG Thames reports pre-tax profit of £3.9m
Groups saw 26 per cent sales rise across its soft-fruit business, while total sales jumped three per cent after 'good overall trading'
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Air raid tunnel salad farm opens for business
Growing Underground, a farm based in ex-WWII tunnels, is set to start trading through Covent Garden wholesaler
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Stoic euro defies Greek uncertainty
Moneycorp's Chris Redfern on why the instability in Greece is still not having a major impact on the single currency
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UK’s ‘first’ automated herb glasshouse opens
Herb giant Langmead Group has unveiled its new £3m state-of-the-art potted herb-growing facility in West Sussex
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Coregeo unveils mini Pink Lady range
New eight-pack of smaller apples has been launched in Asda under brand extension range Pinkids
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Mushroom supplier invests £225k in solar panels
Evesham-based Walsh Mushrooms will generate 20 per cent of its annual energy use from new 950-panel solar installation
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Freshtime hires category manager and technologist
Alistair Whitaker and Sam Reed are the latest additions to the growing team at the chilled fresh food provider
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Albert Bartlett teams up with Tesco on major educational day
Food & Farming Day is the largest educational farming event of its kind in the UK, and aims to teach children where food comes from
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Dover-Calais services resume
Ferry services between the UK and French ports have restarted, but the backlog of trucks will take days to clear
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Grocery prices 'rise for first time in six months'
The product prices that increased the most were onions, bananas and carrots, according to mySupermarket research
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Produce World's £1.4k 'clean sweep' boost for hospice
Staff also got behind the Sue Ryder Hospice at Thorpe Hall in Peterborough by helping to clear the site's garden
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Lorries queuing outside Dover 'now on the move'
Blockade at Calais by French ferry workers has been suspended, although the threat of further action remains
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Chiquita UK reports slight dip in pre-tax profit
Despite increasing its turnover, the banana giant's UK business saw from profit fall from £534,676 in 2013, to £522,734 in 2014
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CGMA unveils new wholesale market identity
But tenants’ chair said that for traders, logos and “glossy pictures” were unimportant compared to issues like the migration strategy
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Retailers urged to help desperate cucumber growers
Derek Hargreaves, of the Cucumber Growers Association, says just a 3p rise would help growers who are “on their knees”
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Poupart posts vast rise in pre-tax profit and turnover
Fruit giant’s latest turnover surpasses the £380m figure with which Total Produce topped December 2014’s FPJ Big 50 businesses list
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UK's competitive world ranking 'biggest threat' to growers
Almost 20 per cent of those asked in new BGA survey of UK fruit and veg suppliers pinpointed their fears on this front
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Big-name sponsor for first UK Vining Pea Conference
Event will cover R&D, knowledge transfer, the Yes Peas! promotion campaign, and industry insights, among other topics
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Fruit farm manager gets 30 months in jail
Andrew Stocker sentenced after deaths of Scott Cain and Ashley Clarke in oxygen-deprived apple storage tank on the Blackmoor Estate
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Budgens ditches SuperValu in favour of new brand
New bagged salad lines are the latest category to have been given the Budgens own-label rebranding