Retail
New project aims to boost quality of Norwegian pears
2024-03-15 13:00
Norway’s largest retailer NorgesGruppen wants to help the country’s consumers eat more domestically grown fruit and vegetables.
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Aldi offers food for thought to cash-strapped consumers
2024-03-15 12:00
Aldi has stepped up support for cost-conscious customers with its refreshed meal planner hub.
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Aldi celebrates success of Company Shop Group partnership
2024-03-15 12:00
Aldi is celebrating a significant milestone in its partnership with surplus food and household products redistributor, Company Shop Group.
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Italian fruit and vegetables in Dubai, practical examples of success
2024-03-15 00:00
Some time ago, thanks to the intervention of our retail expert Giampaolo Ferri, we published an in-depth article on the potential of fruit and vegetables in Dubai (click here to read more). A reader brought his point of view to our attention, which we receive and publish with pleasure;
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ALDI inaugurates its new logistics centre in Miranda de Ebro
2024-03-15 00:00
ALDI strengthens its logistics capacity in Spain with the inauguration of a new logistics centre
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Ficacci, double-digit growth thanks to large-scale retail trade
2024-03-15 00:00
The growth on the domestic and international market of Ficacci, a company from Castel Madama, on the outskirts of Rome, which celebrates its 60th birthday this year, continues. The 2023 turnover reaches 34 million euros (20% accrued through exports), +50% compared to 2020 and +15% compared to 2022. Growth is
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XVI Day `5 A DAY`: Cultivating AI
2024-03-15 00:00
The event brought together leading producers, marketers and service companies from the fruit and vegetable sector, as well as some retail chains committed to innovation and digitisation. The aim was to explore and highlight the transformative impact of AI in the sector.
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Mercadona posts record profits for 2023
2024-03-14 11:00
Mercadona reported a 15 per cent increase in sales to €35.5bn in 2023. Net profits jumped 40 per cent to more than €1bn.
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Aldi UK distributed two and a half million meals with the Company Shop Group in 2023
2024-03-14 11:00
Aldi began working with the Company Shop Group in October 2015 and went one step further in January 2023, when the discounter announced that it would expand the partnership so that surplus stock from the Aldi network of regional distribution centres could be allocated to Community Shop shops.
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Dole completes Progressive Produce sale
2024-03-14 10:00
Dole plc has announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its 65 per cent equity stake in Progressive Produce PTF Holdings, the parent company of Pacific Trellis Fruit.
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MD and Herbert Ballerina challenge discounter sceptics
2024-03-14 00:00
Herbert Ballerina returns as the star of the new MD commercials, on air from this week on digital TV: Rai Play, Mediaset Play, Amazon Prime, Ciao People channels and on YouTube.
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Owner of Waitrose supermarkets has reported a return to profit
2024-03-14 00:00
UK: Tesco and Sainsbury's landlord reports profit boom despite declining assetsSupermarket Income REIT, which rents out properties to some of the UK's biggest supermarkets, saw operating profit jump 18% last year, even as its net assets dropped 8% in the same period. In its interim results, the
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"Tutti, the apple variety adapted to climate change, will start to be sold this fall in the wholesale market"
2024-03-14 00:00
The innovative Tutti apple, developed in Catalonia in response to climate change, is gearing up for its wholesale launch this fall, following a test marketing period in a Catalan supermarket chain. This breakthrough is the result of twenty years of collaboration between Catalonia and New
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"Manbol: New beach game with ball in the shape of mango is gaining popularity in Rio"
2024-03-14 00:00
Manbol, inspired by childhood mango-throwing games in the Amazon, has become a popular beach sport in Brazil. Invented by Rui Hildebrando and recognized in 2004, it's played with mango-shaped balls, challenging reflexes and stamina. Simple rules dictate scoring: land the ball on the opponent's
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Signs of recovery in February, inflation eases
2024-03-14 00:00
February brings some signs of recovery for the fruit and vegetable department in large-scale distribution, especially if one compares the data with the previous month: consumption is still negative, but in a decidedly more subdued way, and inflation is falling appreciably. The variables affecting
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Big plans for seedless lemons in South Africa
2024-03-13 10:00
Seedless lemons are slowly taking shelf space away from seeded lemons and drawing the attention of both consumers and chefs worldwide.
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AU: Plant nurseries accuse Bunnings of unfair trading practices at supermarket inquiry
2024-03-13 00:00
Australia's commercial gardening and nursery sector has, for the first time, gone public with its concerns about Bunnings' market power and how it treats growers — calling for the retailer to face the same scrutiny as Coles and Woolworths. Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA) represents the $2.8
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AU: Plant nurseries accuse Bunnings of unfair trading practices at supermarket inquiry
2024-03-13 00:00
Australia's commercial gardening and nursery sector has, for the first time, gone public with its concerns about Bunnings' market power and how it treats growers — calling for the retailer to face the same scrutiny as Coles and Woolworths. Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA) represents the $2.8
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Morrisons fell to a £1bln loss in 2023
2024-03-13 00:00
UK: Aldi raises pay again as stores battle for staffAldi has announced its second pay rise of 2024 as supermarkets battle for staff and prepare for higher minimum wage levels. The increase means the minimum hourly rate for store workers at Aldi will be £12.40 nationwide from 1 June.Source:
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US (MA): Spotted lanternfly on nursery stock
2024-03-13 00:00
With the start of the 2024 growing season, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) is sending this notice as a reminder to growers, retailers, and brokers of nursery stock, as well as all landscapers, to inspect any plant material being imported from states where the
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