Bloom Fresh said Avery’s dedication to the company and his goal to increase grape consumption worldwide has had a positive impact, and those goals are now at the forefront of the company’s mission. read more

SanLucar has published the latest issue of its Dreams magazine, setting out its corporate responsibility programme. read more

Costa Group has entered a new phase of ownership with a Paine Schwartz Partners-led consortium completing its acquisition of the leading Australian fresh produce company on 26 February 2024. read more

International berry brand The Fruitist has scored a major marketing goal after it secured a multi-year sponsorship deal with Major League Soccer team DC United. read more

Sainsbury’s has become the largest supermarket to launch a dedicated ‘Best of British’ page on its groceries website. read more

Vitacress Salads has undertaken an extensive tree planting project to create a new woodland habitat on its St Mary Bourne site near Andover in Hampshire. read more

The UK organic market has delivered its 12th year of positive growth despite global geo-political crises and the cost-of-living crisis at home, the Soil Association Certification’s 25th Organic Market Report 2024 has revealed. read more

Lower raw material prices in particular led to lower prices in almost all segments. Sales volumes fell in all segments as a result of weak demand from many customer industries. Nevertheless, BASF demonstrated economic strength with a cash flow from operating activities of
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The plants are planted in a plastic growing tube on a rockwool mat and watered with an inline drip tube. Gravity causes the plants to hang vertically under the tube with their growing heads pointing downwards. read more

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Fruit sorters have come a long way. In 1924, a wooden machine built in Massa Lombarda, a small commune between Ravenna and Bologna, gave growers in the surrounding area the chance to separate smaller and larger sized fruit. This made it easier for them to give the market what it wanted. read more

One bright spot, according to reefertrends, was the durian fruit, whose export turnover rose by 430.1 % year-on-year to an unprecedented USD 2.2 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. In addition
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In a ten-year comparison, the area fell below the 11,000 ha mark again for the first time, while the production volume fell short of the ten-year average (2013 to 2022) by 6.1 %. read more

Fruit sorters have come a long way. In 1924, a wooden machine built in Massa Lombarda, a small commune between Ravenna and Bologna, gave growers in the surrounding area the chance to separate smaller and larger sized fruit. This made it easier for them to give the market what it wanted. read more

The Washington apple industry and government representatives have come together to mark the successful start of apple shipping season following India’s removal of retaliatory tariffs on US-grown apples.  read more

At Fruit Logistica in Berlin, Fruitnet sat down with Anton Filippo, commercial director of LBP Rotterdam, to discuss the latest developments at the Netherlands-based logistics business. read more

DP World has installed Europe’s largest quay cranes at its London Gateway logistics hub. read more

More than 20 years ago the southern regions in South Africa were chosen as the ideal place in the Southern Hemisphere to establish a counter-seasonal Sharon fruit export business, but now the dream of achieving that has been abandoned. read more

Delivered by Hort Innovation and led by QUT in partnership with Future Food Systems, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub (ARM) and BNL Industrial Solutions, the US$2 million programme will use technologies such as computer vision and machine learning to help the
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Too many things are still up in the air, too many factors are making not only day-to-day business difficult, but also sensible planning for the future in the fruit and vegetable sector. There is increasing planning uncertainty along the entire value chain. Companies are lacking
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