At Fruit Logistica, L'Orto di Eleonora presented a number of sustainable innovation projects ranging from waste reduction to above ground. "Currently the most important thing is to reduce costs, without of course affecting quality, and this can only be done by reducing
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With Claudio Dall'Agata, director of Bestack, in our new #freshtalks we retrace together the genesis of Fruit Shows and the new programming for 2023, which will involve not only companies involved in production and marketing
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Quotations for tarocco oranges remain stable. Artichoke availability is still below average, with the Romanesco about to enter full production. Availability is also limited for courgettes, whose prices continue to rise. Radicchio production has begun
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New layout and renewed emphasis on consumer messages to emphasise the freshness of the products on display. Conad has launched a project to relaunch the fruit and vegetable department, which the various cooperatives are modelling in the stores of their network. The objective of this
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Underlying the project Il Giardino delle Arance (The Garden of Oranges), launched by Etnafood, which manages several McDonald's restaurants in Eastern Sicily and Calabria, and Oranfrizer, a company of the Unifrutti group, supplier of Oranges to the McCafés throughout Italy, is the will to promote
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For the fourth year running, iLcamone, the real one, is back on-air with a new social adv campaign featuring digital entrepreneur and author Sonia Peronacie and food influencers Mastercheffa and Vannisa Biggio. New packaging to be even more distinctive on the shelf iLCamone
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The fourth range has returned to growth and left behind the problems that arose with the pandemic. According to NielsenIQ market surveys, the sector ended 2022 with a total value of EUR 982 million, +5.1% in value and +5.4% in volume over 2021, surpassing
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Growth in modern distribution is slowing down but basically holding up: in 2022 the increase in value was 5.2% (but this has to be reckoned with inflation, which last year was around 8% in FMCG), while in the specialised channels the
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At Fruit Logisticawe meet Vip, which presented a new sustainable packaging: 'It is 100 per cent paper with flax thread,' says Benjamin Laimer, Vip sales manager. We start at the end of this month with our organic production. We hope to have a good
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The closure (in 2024) of Copenhagen's Noma, four times the best restaurant in the world according to The World's 50 Best Restaurants, announced by chef and co-owner René Redzepi, does not shift the trends of haute cuisine among the younger generation one iota, where the
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At Fruit Logisticawe visited the Südtirol stand, where we met the Vog Consortium. "We present our products," says Hannes Tauber, marketing manager of Vog, "traditional, organic and Club apple varieties that have been on the market for several years, such as Pink Lady, envy,
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Dorilli introduced a specific packaging technology a few years ago. A new processing line allows the operators to work comfortably seated and accelerates the packaging process with an even greater degree of accuracy on the weight of the tray than with the
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The anticipation came at Sanremo with the new commercials. Mutti has entered the Italian fresh soup market by pioneering a new segment: tomato soups, with a production of 603 thousand tonnes of 100% Italian product by 2022. An epoch-making innovation for
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Fruit Logistica once again became a very important event for the entire supply chain thanks to the return in attendance, according to Spreafico, and was an opportunity to present some of the main projects. "Our specialisation in different product categories," says the managing director, "has made us a very important event.
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Calabria was present at Fruit logistica with its own institutional stand that highlighted the territory's fruit and vegetable excellence. "A stand,' says Gianluca Gallo, councillor for Agriculture of the Region of Calabria, 'that has many valuable products, PDO and PGI. We had
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At Fruit Logistica we saw the Horto Professional vertical farm systems from Tomato+. The company was founded in 2016 with the aim of bringing vegetable production directly to the point of consumption. read more

This year in Berlin Macè brought some novelties prepared with Hpp technology: 'They are ready-made, spreadable pestos, such as guacamole, hummus, red pesto and green pesto,' explains Giorgia Masetti, Macè export manager, 'but we have many other references. They are fresh products
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Prices for fruit and vegetables, especially cauliflower, are growing in general. For oranges, demand is still for red-fleshed varieties. The availability of purple Romanesco artichokes is increasing. Quotations for peppers, especially Sicilian ones, are also on the rise. Cold and costs
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In line with its sustainability philosophy, the E.Leclerc brand implements solutions to reduce its environmental impact and raise consumer awareness of good rules for everyday life. This includes the initiative for more responsible consumption and
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With more than 20 exhibitors and over 30 events, the Italian Fruit Villagehas consolidated at Fruit Logistica its role as a reference platform for the aggregation and internationalisation of the Italian agri-food system. The aggregation factor read more