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Vacancy Quality and Compliance Manager

Sales Manager Retail (Poland)

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Cross-continental collaboration beneficial in developing packaging lines

Demand for sustainable packaging solutions continues to increase globally. In response, the Netherlands-headquartered JASA Packaging Solutions opened a US branch in 2018,…

Extra Mexican Brussels sprouts production leads to lower prices

The Brussels sprouts market is looking very different right now than it did a year ago. “Then, it was a tight market. Now it seems to be plentiful and there’s plenty of…

More acquisitions in produce industry expected

The produce industry first heard about Frutura two years ago, when the company made its initial acquisition. Frutura was established with the goal of delivering the…

Chile’s 2022/2023 season table grape exports to week 5 down by -5%

Chile's table grape exports until week 5 (February 5 of this year), reached 8.9 million boxes of 8.2 kg, which is -5% less than the previous season at the same date. Exports…

Windmill Farms expands to the United States

Windmill Farms announced it has acquired the assets of Ostrom Mushroom Farms LLC (“Ostrom”), a controlled environment mushroom growing facility located in…

APHIS authorizes imports of fresh mango from Grenada into the United States

United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorizing importation of fresh mango fruit from…

In a tough January, fresh produce holds its own

“January brought a host of New Year’s resolutions,” said Jonna Parker, team lead, fresh with IRI. “The January IRI survey found that 40 percent of primary shoppers plan to eat…

All the international photo reports are now available

Photo Report: Fruit Logistica 2023

The largest fair for the global fruit and vegetable trade has come to an end. Fruit Logistica has now also announced the number of visitors to the 30th Fruit Logistica. A…

Organic Produce Summit 2023 attendee registration opens

With general and retailer registration now open and planning well underway for educational sessions and keynote presentations, Organic Produce Summit 2023, which will be held…

Rain causes widespread infrastructure damage

Heavy rains retard South Africa’s lemon harvest

Widespread rain in the north has retarded the lemon harvest in Letsitele, Hoedspruit, Onderberg while Schoemanskloof, west of Nelspruit, reportedly saw some of the most…

Global Focus Grapes

The evolving business of foodservice grapes

With the industry transition to imported table grapes and supplies coming in steadily, one marketer is continuing to focus on growing its institutional foodservice program.…

Retail

Dreamstime

Southeastern Grocers is widening curbside pickup service to nearly 300 Winn-Dixie stores and Harveys Supermarket locations

Heinen’s is ending its years-long relationship with Instacart

Americans believe grocery store profits are 14 times higher than reality and inflation is twice as high as actual, dunnhumby findsAmericans believe that grocery retailers are…

US vegetable production down 2% from 2021

In 2022, the Nation’s production for the 26 estimated vegetable and melon crops totaled 658 million cwt, down 2 percentfrom 2021. The utilized production totaled 655 million…

Kwik Lok names new chief revenue officer

Blair Chastain has been named chief revenue officer (CRO) for Kwik Lok Corporation. In this role, Chastain will focus on enhancing Kwik Lok’s global sales and…

Elo Life Systems raises $24.5m to support new sweetener, disease-resistant Cavendish banana

North Carolina-based Elo Life Systems has closed a $24.5 million Series A round to accelerate the development of a natural high-intensity sweetener ‘inspired…

Government has outdated approach to combat fruit fly spread

Last August, a crew of workers systematically confiscated every orange in a grower's in Valley Center, Calif. They buried the oranges—at least $500,000 worth…

Mexican processor has increased prices due to higher costs of avocado

According to Grupo Kuo's quarterly report, Herdez del Fuerte, a producer of purees, sauces, and guacamole, increased its prices to compensate for inflationary…

Argentina faces a historic contraction of citrus fruits in the domestic market

Corrientes' citrus sector ran out of fruit in January and has been unable to calculate total losses, stated Nicolas Carlino, a counselor of Coninagro. Carlino…

A lot of damage to infrastructure like water and power

Varying degrees of crop damage in New Zealand

As New Zealanders cope with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, New Zealand Apples and Pears member engagement manager Anna Lambourne said many members were…

Wet weather in North Queensland late in the Australian mango season

While wet weather has impacted mango volumes from North Queensland in recent weeks, there are still good volumes on retail shelves as the national season heads into its final…

New Zealand’s 2023 kiwifruit harvest starts amidst bad weather, lower volumes expected

New Zealand’s 2023 kiwifruit harvest has kicked off amidst adverse weather, which is a challenge for some growers, while a lower volume of kiwifruit will be produced than in…

Transnet strike was disastrous for South African blueberries

South Africa’s blueberry season has come to a close, and it is one that many farmers would prefer to forget, with the negative repercussions expected to be…

Pete Nicholson - Roselands Farm

“We are very excited about this year’s crop which is six to eight weeks earlier than New Zealand"

South Africa has been growing gold kiwifruit for around 10 years, but it is only during recent years that the production is really coming on and has a good consistent export…

More Egyptian producers are ready to supply European markets with onions and garlic

In a context of high demand for onions in Europe, while several countries have banned exports of onions to be able to satisfy their domestic demand, more Egyptian producers…

Egyptian spring onion shortage leads to 80% price increase

Prices for Egyptian spring onions have significantly increased. According to Mai Yassin, export manager at Egyptian fresh produce exporter Stars of Export, this is due a…

Pierre Gratacos, Cardell Export - Innatis Group

Apple exports: the major changes of the last three years

Cardell Export has built its reputation around the export of French apples worldwide. The company has indeed been able to adapt to markets with very different expectations.…

New nursery for Dutch company

Scale up organic mushroom cultivation to be more competitive

"We want to sell more mushrooms to keep our packaging facility and marketing costs low," begins Jozef van den Elsen. He owns Nesco Champignons, a Dutch company that cultivates…

“The market needs the Gala, Golden, Mutsu and Prince varieties right now”

The cost of storing apples is leading to price increases for the apples themselves, says Janusz Kawęczyński, president of Polish apple exporter Fruit-Group: “It’s very hard to…

Willem Dijk jr. from Willem Dijk AGF:

"New software should increase productivity"

When Dutch fruit and vegetable wholesaler, importer, and exporter Willem Dijk AGF's software became outdated, director Willem Dijk jr. went in search of a replacement package…

John Robert Johnson - Enza Zaden Winter Leafy Days

“Fusarium, Bremia and mildew resistance are our main focus in the leafy vegetable products"

This week the Enza Zaden Winter Leafy Days are being held in El Albujon, Murcia in Spain. Amid demo fields with dozens of familiar and new varieties, Enza…

Westfalia showcased its agricultural R&D at Fruit Logistica in Berlin

Westfalia Fruit is the world’s largest private investor in avocado research. The company’s research programme, based in South Africa, consists of a team of…

'Younger generations showing slightly higher purchasing volumes overall"

World Citrus Organisation says European consumption back to pre-Covid levels

On the 7 February 2023, the World Citrus Organisation (WCO) held a meeting for members of the Organisation’s global citrus community to exchange on citrus consumption and…

First flat peaches and nectarines harvested on Italian soil

Greenyard Fresh Italy, a company that imports and exports fresh fruits and vegetables globally, joins the Ondine Club to be one of the first to harvest the new Ondine flat…

Persimmons: few players, short season

A limited number of countries dominate the global persimmon market. China is, by far, the biggest producer; Spain, the leading exporter. Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan export…

Primaflor launches "Iceberg de la huerta", a new format to prevent food waste

Primaflor has launched a new packaging format for iceberg lettuce. "It is a smaller box than usual, with a capacity for 5 pieces, which is allowing the use of space in local…

Statement from Worldwide Produce Group MD, Tim O’Malley regarding the current shortages within the fresh produce industry

Mother Nature wipes the floor with inflation

Tim O’Malley, Worldwide Produce Group MD, comments on the current shortages within the fresh produce industry: Tim O’Malley, Worldwide Produce Group MD "I’m just back from Berlin.…

Case study:

Phased automation accelerates packing efficiency at fruit packer in UK

Packing automation success is all in the planning. Embarking on a mission to reconfigure its fresh-produce packing hall at Thrapston, the Morrisons Centre of Excellence -…

Analysts see “price war” behind carriers reaction to recent container demand collapse

Sea-Intelligence noted the different approaches of container shipping lines to the demand decrease at the beginning of 2020 caused by the Covid-19 pandemic…

Researchers analyze the use of drones for pest control in citrus

The Obispo Colombres Experimental Agro-industrial Station from Tucumán-Argentina (EEAOC), together with the Siner, Efficatia, and Citromax companies, carried…

La Trinidad farmers urged to adopt elevated strawberry farming

The municipal government of La Trinidad has urged farmers to produce three times their regular yield and battle the effects of land conversion by adopting…

Polish blueberry growers are getting ready for a tough season

The situation in the European market for fresh blueberries remains tense due to the very limited supply. After the continuous flow of large volumes of Peruvian…

Madeira banana sees best year ever in 2022

Madeira’s banana sector beat all records in 2022, its best year ever, showing a 144% growth in producer income.Social Democrat deputy Nuno Maciel claims to…

DCSA’s member carriers commit to a fully standardised, electronic bill of lading by 2030

Digital Container Shipping Association(DCSA) today announces its nine ocean carrier members commit to 100% adoption of an electronic bill of lading (eBL) based…

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