All Wholesale articles – Page 72
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Traders urged to take control
Market tenants at New Covent Garden have been given a rallying call to support a move to take control of their future.
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ArticleMarkets shrug off gloom
The wholesale sector has long been associated with wearying talks of cut-backs and closure. However, in this week’s profile on the changing face of UK wholesale, Elspeth Waters discovers the sector is learning to be positive, with some exciting plans in the pipeline.
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ArticleLiggins to leave Garden post
Dr Mike Liggins, has decided to retire from his post as general manager of Covent Garden Market Authority in the autumn, after 16 years in the post.
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ArticleDoolittle does a lot for lettuce
Wholesalers found themselves being serenaded by Eliza Doolittle recently, during a tour to promote lamb’s lettuce from the Loire Valley.
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ArticleSector tackles waste issue
With the cost of landfill threatening to scale unsustainable heights, waste management is a hot topic for the UK’s wholesale markets. In the first of four profiles on the wholesale sector, Elspeth Waters reports on the activity taking place at three markets across the UK.
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ArticleCovent Garden memorial gets go ahead
Westminster City Council has approved the design and erection of the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers’ bronze relief sculpture in Southampton Street on the wall of the Jubilee Market in Covent Garden.
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Lords consent to New Covent Garden appeal
The House of Lords has given its unconditional consent to Defra and Covent Garden Market Authority to appeal against the Court
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Blueheath continues strong performance
Delivered wholesaler Blueheath has announced a sales increase of 12 per cent up to £70.2m for the year ending February 26.
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ArticleTenants Association backs Saphir
Covent Garden Market Tenants’ Association executive committee advises tenants to back joint venture with Nick Saphir, to take market forward.
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John Carmichael dies after illness
Glasgow wholesaler and exotics pioneer John Carmichael has died.
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Local supply guide an opportunity
Small and local producers should be looking towards the £11 billion foodservice market for new opportunities, claimed Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive of the Institute of Grocery Distribution.
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ArticleWholesale future looks positive, claims IGD
The grocery wholesale market is tipped to reach £18.3 billion by 2009, according to food and grocery think-tank IGD.
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ArticleRedbridge brings rebates to wholesale
Redbridge Produce & Flowers is in the process of introducing rebate payments across its entire wholesale supply base.
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ArticleMarket considers response to drug allegations
New Covent Garden’s tenants’ association is taking advice over an article the Evening Standard, which dubbed traders in the market “cocaine sniffing barrow boys who cared less about veg than our nation’s children”.
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ArticleMills backs Corporation to take over Garden
The Corporation of London should be the next owner of New Covent Garden wholesale market, chairman of the Covent Garden Market Authority Leif Mills told the Journal in his last week in office.
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ArticleLondon congestion charge blow for suppliers
Fresh produce distributors who deliver within the congestion charge zone in London, as well as their retail and foodservice customers, will be dismayed to hear that mayor Ken Livingstone has announced the charge is rising from £5 to £8.
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ArticleGoing and gone for Goldsby
David Goldsby, manager of Vitacress Sales Ltd - Birmingham, retired this week after 39 years in the fresh produce trade.
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Charles Renaudon passes away
Charles Victor Renaudon, past president of the Wholesale Fruit Federation, has died aged 88.
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ArticleDefra and CGMA to appeal
Defra and the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA) have decided to seek the right to appeal against the Court of Appeal’s decision about the face-to-face wholesaling of meat and fish at New Covent Garden.
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Record low year for Belgian auction
A leading Belgian fresh produce auction has described 2004 as the worst year in its history, as turnover tumbled 24 per cent compared with the previous year.