The Ukrainian market is facing a scarcity of quality potatoes, as reported by the EastFruit. Wholesale companies and retail chains are struggling to buy enough quality potatoes to meet their needs. This gives farmers the opportunity to increase their prices for high-quality potatoes. Currently,
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Australian grown papaya will be given a boost this month when Mareeba papaya grower Skybury Farms, and local produce retailer, Beemart bring the first ever Papaya Week to Bundaberg. Skybury Farms General Manager Candy MacLaughlin Candy MacLaughlin, Skybury's general manager, said the concept was
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Aldi, part of the Aldi Sud Group, a leading multinational in the large-scale retail trade, opens its 180th shop in northern Italy tomorrow, Thursday 7 March, in Abano Terme (PD). The new shop is located in Via P. Gobetti 34 inside the "Abano
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The banana market is a volatile one and according to Mr. Ricardo Guedes, general director of Portuguese banana trader Franol, retailers are hyper aware of any small changes going on in the market: "The market for conventional bananas in Europe appears to have reverted back to old trends in terms
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Roger Boons' enthusiasm for the Polish market is undeniable. After entering the fresh produce industry in 1985, he quickly became active in Eastern Europe for the then New Zealand Kiwifruit Marketing Board (Zespri) following the fall of the Berlin Wall. For the past six years, the Belgian has
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Huge success for the Parlapiano Sicilia oranges at a tasting on 2 and 3 March at the prestigious Prezzemolo & Vitale chain in Palermo, which told its customers the story of a company and its flagship product, the Arancia di Ribera DOP Parlapiano Sicilia. Prezzemolo
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The Ukrainian market is facing a scarcity of quality potatoes, as reported by the EastFruit. Wholesale companies and retail chains are struggling to buy enough quality potatoes to meet their needs. This gives farmers the opportunity to increase their prices for high-quality potatoes. Currently,
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UK supermarkets' sales growth slows in February, NIQ saysSales growth at British supermarkets slowed to 5.3% in February from 6.6% in January, reflecting a fall in food inflation, industry data showed. Market researcher NIQ said food price inflation decreased to 5.0% last month from 6.1% in… read more

Pineapple produces in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic say the exporting of pineapples without the crown, which allows two extra pineapples in a box, is not a new concept, and they have learned from experience that many markets are not ready to compensate them. This follows after Dutch
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For Jingold kiwis, investments in communication are intensifying. The company has recently been present in wholesale markets with initiatives dedicated to fruit growers and wholesalers (click here to read more), while - at the same time - it has also been pursuing an intensive
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As noted in the previous Monitor Ortofrutta article on the evolution of the share of packaged products in the large-scale retail trade (Click here to read more), from 2018 to the present, there have been more than one vicissitude that has affected this sales mode, causing the share of the
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It has become a commonplace to complain about the poor quality of the fruit and vegetables we find on supermarket shelves, often with good reason, but it is undeniable that in recent years producers have been introducing new varieties onto the market that are much more
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There are over 70 growers of fingerlimes in Australia ranging from small producers with a few hundred trees to larger growers with thousands of trees. It was estimated that over a hundred tonnes of fruit was produced by growers in 2020 and the industry has rapidly grown in the last four years
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However, participation in the GulFood international fair in Dubai - where fruit and vegetables play a marginal role - allowed me, on the one hand, to meet several buyers from major local retail chains, such as LuLu, Almaya, Union Coop, Grandiose Supermarket and
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A new ribbon-cutting ceremony for Lidl Italia, which recently opened its first store in Cassano D'Adda, Via Milano 80. This is the 44th Lidl store in the centre and province of Milan, where the company has significantly strengthened its sales network in recent years.
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It's been a tough couple of years for the mushroom industry, with one major challenge following up on the other, says Tomasz Stańko, COO of Polish mushroom exporter Arctic Sp. z o.o: "For the last three years, the mushroom business has been very hard. At beginning of Covid, the orders from
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The UK’s fourth-largest supermarket will be supporting Team GB athletes as they work towards the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, as well as Los Angeles 2028, the Olympic Winter Games in 2030, and Brisbane 2032. read more