In the forty-third week of the current year, sales of fruit and vegetables by weight showed a better performance than Lcc. At the channel level, only positive trends can be noted, also in the online, but the discount store is the one that stands out above all others. read more

According to the sixth health and life study conducted by the insurance company Aegon, 49% of Spanish consumers believe that the generalised increase in food prices has changed the way they eat and shop. In fact, the report reveals how people have
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The drama unfolded in a distribution centre for agricultural products in Gyeongsang, South Korea. read more

The subject of leaflets, or more generally of promotions planned well in advance, has always been a bone of contention between supplier and distributor, especially in the fruit and vegetable sector, where the offer is often subject to uncontrollable variables and, therefore, the risk that
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The 2023 season for persimmons in Campania, so far, has not been one of the easiest; read more

After his experience on Masterchef, Nicolò Prati put his cooking aside and devoted himself to his other passion, the land, taking over the family farm in Castel San Giovanni, in the province of Piacenza, and recounting on his Facebook and Instagram profiles his
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Despar received, for the fourth consecutive year, the prestigious 'Sign of the Year 2023 - 2024' award in the Supermarket category, an award that confirms the brand's bond with its customers and testifies to the quality service offered by the brand's shops
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Purchases in discount food stores are soaring, with a +6.3% jump in September 2023 compared to the same period last year. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti on the basis of Istat data on the retail trade; read more

Finding a fruit and vegetable aisle in perfect condition at any time of day is a rare occurrence, regardless of the distribution chain one examines, but if this happens in one of the most price-aggressive retailers, such as Eurospin, it is the
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The data released by Istat on retail sales, food and non-food, for the month of September show a trend increase in value of +1.3%, which was matched by a drop in volume of -4.4%; read more

Thirty years after the creation of the Banana Environmental Commission (CAB), Costa Rica's banana industry has renewed its pledge towards sustainable production by signing a new set of commitments to grow bananas in an environmentally sustainable manner and beyond. read more

When analysing environmental impact, the finger is all too often pointed at packaging. But do we really know how much they weigh in the sustainability of a product? We try to shed some light on this withClaudio Dall'Agata, General Manager of the Bestack consortium. read more

Local, everyday shopping takes on an international flavour. DAO, a cooperative associated with Conad, offers, for the first time in Italy, a cashierless shopping experience (without checkout staff) in the new Tuday Conad 'Prendi&Vai', which opened yesterday in the historic centre of Verona. read more

ForLuigi La Montagna, his experience at MD as national fruit and vegetable purchasing manager comes to an end. read more

A moment of transition at the wholesale market in Bergamo, where Federico Fapanni, salesman at Ortobergamo, gave us an overview of the current trends in seasonal fruit, characterised by different origins and varieties that are interbreeding or changing
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The Italian aniculture market is going through a difficult period, marked by significant volume reductions, which are in turn linked to the extreme weather phenomena that occurred during the spring and summer of this year. Harvests below the
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In September 2023, a cyclical decline of 0.3% in value and 0.6% in volume is estimated for retail sales. Both food sales (-0.2% in value and -0.6% in volume) and non-food sales (-0.5% and -0.6% respectively) are decreasing. read more

Convenience alternatives to fresh fruit and vegetables have been proliferating in the various retail channels for several years now. But not all of them are convincing, often redundant or lacking in innovative or perceptibly distinctive features. Nevertheless, every now and then
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The Sicilian pomegranate season is almost drawing to a close and, as Sicilian producer Michelangelo Bevilacqua, owner of the Tenute Michelangelo company in the Acate (Ragusa) area with six hectares dedicated to the fruit, tells IFN, it has been a season with two faces. "The
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Aspiag Service Srl, the Despar brand concessionaire for Triveneto, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, together with Swan&Koi SB has launched a campaign to relaunch the fruit and vegetable sector in its stores; read more