All Wholesale articles – Page 57

  • How The Garden could look
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    Garden market plans at stage two

    2010-02-26T11:01:01Z

    Covent Garden Market Authority has unveiled new images for The Garden at New Covent Garden Market as its second public exhibition opens this week, showing plans for the brand-new fresh produce market at The Garden with new homes, shops and open spaces on the existing Nine Elms site.

  • Alastair Bokla proposed wholesale changes
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    Wholesale tension at FPJ Conference

    2010-02-26T08:01:01Z

    Speakers and delegates at the inaugural FPJ Conference in Perth on Tuesday were at loggerheads as the future of Glasgow’s Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market came under the spotlight.

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    London markets urge Lincolnshire link up

    2010-02-22T16:01:02Z

    Select Lincolnshire is actively encouraging its members and fresh produce businesses in the county to engage with London wholesale markets.

  • A sample of the fruit offered for sale
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    Redbridge Leicester given hefty fine

    2010-02-12T10:01:01Z

    Redbridge Produce and Flowers Ltd pleaded guilty to a total of five separate breaches of the EC Marketing Standards for fresh produce for quality and labelling offences at Leicester Magistrates’ Court and was ordered to pay almost £30,000.

  • Jan Lloyd and Rosie Winterton
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    Covent Garden wins market accolade

    2010-02-11T11:01:01Z

    The National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA) named New Covent Garden Market (NCGM) as the best wholesale market in the UK at its Building Better Markets’ Conference in Birmingham last month.

  • A second consultation will take place over the market's revamp
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    Second exhibition of The Garden imminent

    2010-02-05T09:01:01Z

    New Covent Garden Market is to hold a second public exhibition of its redevelopment project, The Garden at New Covent Garden Market.

  • Malaysian flag
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    Malaysian demand cranks up for CNY

    2010-02-02T05:07:23Z

    After a slow start, pre-Chinese New Year sales have picked up in Malaysia, with mandarins leading the way, according to leading importers

  • Denis Punter
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    Total Produce restructures Redbridge

    2010-01-29T08:01:01Z

    Total Produce has announced the restructure and rebranding of its import and retail division Redbridge Worldfresh, in the latest phase of the “Totalisation” of its companies.

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    FPC conducts wholesale survey

    2010-01-28T15:01:01Z

    The Fresh Produce Consortium is asking its members involved in wholesale and foodservice to take part in a survey

  • Generic avocados
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    Halls expands into France

    2010-01-21T10:55:29Z

    Avocado and exotics specialist to launch French office, which will commence trading on 1 February this year

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    French Garden awarded BRC accreditation

    2010-01-17T11:01:02Z

    New Covent Garden Market (NCGM) wholesaler The French Garden has been the first to be awarded British Retail Consortium (BRC) certification to global standard for storage and distribution.

  • Traders and market staff met at the Old Fruit Market at Candleriggs to celebrate
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    Glasgow celebrates 40th and revamp

    2009-12-17T10:01:01Z

    Traders and authorities at Glasgow wholesale market gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the market and the signing of the contract for its refurbishment earlier this month.

  • Olympic Food Vision snubs Spitalfields
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    Olympic Food Vision snubs Spitalfields

    2009-12-11T12:01:01Z

    The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games’ Food Vision report issued this week has ignored New Spitalfields Market, which hosts 140 suppliers of fresh produce at sprinting distance from the main Olympic Park.

  • James Cracknell
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    Olympic plan omits top UK market

    2009-12-11T11:18:30Z

    London 2012 organisers fail to mention UK capital's largest fresh produce wholesale market in food provision proposals

  • Fresh Direct now has a London hub
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    Fresh Direct in Personal link up

    2009-12-11T08:01:01Z

    Fresh Produce foodservice supplier Fresh Direct UK Ltd has gone truly national with the announcement of a deal completed today with a London firm that gives it a valuable presence in the capital.

  • John Olney (left) with Anna Mbachu
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    Spitalfields all lit up

    2009-12-10T09:01:02Z

    Councillor Anna Mbachu, mayor of Waltham Forest visited New Spitalfields Market last on December 4 to switch on the market’s Christmas lights and illuminate a 30ft high Christmas tree at the entrance to the market.

  • George Nicholson
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    Calls for composite markets increase

    2009-12-08T09:01:01Z

    There have been widespread calls for farmers’ markets and traditional retail markets to put their differences aside to provide prosperous, composite markets.

  • Manny Sugarman and his four grandsons celebrating his 60th wedding anniversary in Hove, March 2009
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    Obituary: Emanuel Sugarman

    2009-12-04T09:01:01Z

    Emanuel Sugarman, who worked for more than 50 years in old Covent Garden and then Borough market, has died at the age of 85.

  • (l-r) BFS joint md Nick Matthews, Growfair brand manager Mark Oughtred and DEFRA secretary Hilary Benn. Photo courtesy of the BBC
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    Bristol Fruit Sales lands BBC prize

    2009-12-02T08:01:01Z

    Bristol Fruit Sales (BFS) is celebrating its victory at the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming awards 2009 last week in London.

  • Glasgow Wholesale Market
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    Glasgow gets refurbishment go-ahead

    2009-11-30T11:49:17Z

    The proposed £6.5m redevelopment of Glasgow Wholesale Market has been given the green light by local authorities