The Co-op has improved profitability and reduced debt in a strong set of full-year accounts. read more

The Latin American Banana Sustainability Taskforce, a consortium of banana producers and exporters of Latin America, has strongly criticised German retailer Lidl for selling a kilo of Rainforest Alliance-certified bananas below €1, arguing that such a low price damages efforts to make the
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Last year, German farmers harvested less asparagus than they had in years. Demand was lower than in previous years and many farmers reduced their quantities. Asparagus in the German trade therefore often comes from abroad, especially from Spain.
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Dealz owner Pepco opens 100th store in Italy read more

The basic workforce was informed of this by tegut... Managing Director Thomas Gutberlet and basic Board Member Christoph Eich at a staff meeting. The transaction still requires antitrust clearance and implementation in an insolvency plan, tegut... announces.
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The Antitrust Authority has learnt that the cooperative Conad Nord Ovesthas acquired three Piedmontese sales outlets from the supermarket and hypermarket group Bennet spa between January and February, through its subsidiary Nordovest Insieme srl, for a total of
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Packaged fruit and vegetables are increasingly meeting with the approval of large-scale retail customers, thanks to faster purchasing, better product protection, as well as more possibilities for communication and product information. Despite this, 2022 is yet another anomalous year
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Florette, Spain's leading supplier of fresh ready-to-eat salads and vegetables, has developed a new segmentation strategy to enhance its IV gamma salads in El Corte Inglés supermarkets, as quoted by the website foodretail.es. The new category management key adopted for
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For the fourth time, SanLucar and the app Kitchen Stories are going into the supermarkets and to the PoS together. Their motto for the period from 1 May 2023 to 1 June 2023: "Our recipe for good taste". read more

An apple a day keeps the doctor away... but which apple? Whereas until a few years ago the options were limited to no more than 5 varieties, the choice is now much wider, thanks to the introduction of new selections on the market, and this seems to have confused several
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Leading UK salad suppliers are gearing up for a huge uptick in leafy and prepared salad sales from May onwards, with the King’s coronation a potential high spot for demand. read more

SanLucar has revealed that it is joining forces with the Kitchen Stories cooking platform for the fourth time to launch a new promotion in German supermarkets under the slogan “Our recipe for good taste”. read more

Tesco has announced it has become the first UK retailer to go peat-free on its British-grown bedding plants. read more

UK: Tesco boss won't predict when food price inflation will ease read more

After five months in an upward trend, the recovery in consumer sentiment weakened in April. This is the result of the current consumer barometer of the German Retail Association (HDE). According to this, the index remained almost at the level of the previous month. read more

A Lidl shopper found a strange secret coded message on his breakfast fruit. The customer came across the code 'ABS' etched onto one of his blueberries. That is why he asked – on Reddit: "Found this code (ABS) on a blueberry from Lidl. What is it?" read more

"The data on organics are merciless when compared to the general trend in fruit and vegetable consumption, but action must be taken to implement an appropriate communication campaign to help reverse the lifestyle adopted by most, which is going in the opposite direction to that indicated
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The first early potatoes in the Palatinate, Bavaria and the Lower Rhine have been planted. Until the new harvest, the farms of the Bio-Kartoffel-Erzeuger e.V., an interest group of 240 farms nationwide with organic potato and onion cultivation, can once again provide sufficient domestic produce
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Aldi, Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket, is accelerating its sustainability commitments across its entire UK fresh produce supply chain through LEAF Marque certification. read more

"In recent years, the appetite for avocados in Germany and surrounding countries has been increasing," says Paulina Criticos (pictured right), CEO of Westfalia Fruit Group - EMEA region. "We have experienced a strong growth over the past year. We have achieved this with both existing and new
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