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| Dutch fruit and vegetables supplier The Greenery has made a new senior appointment to further strengthen the management of its growing UK operation.
Kevin Doran will take over from Martin Brown as head of The Greenery UK's operations in the UK, based at the company's offices in Huntingdon. He will focus on developing and strengthening The Greenery's position in the ...
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| | Anglia Business Solutions has announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Priva UK. Priva is the global market leader in process automation for horticulture under glass and has over 50 years of experience in climate control for glasshouse horticulture.
The alliance will see both organizations jointly using its technologies to provide customers with end-to-end business intelligence from ...
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| | The Dutch PT Horticultural Committee has just revealed that the country’s tomato sector exported 5,000 tonnes more tomatoes last year and a record 630,000 tonnes in total.
At 305,000 tonnes, Germany remains the most important export market, whilst the 101,000 tonnes exported to the UK is good for second place. Even so, three years ago the UK was good for 120,000 ...
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| | 3 acres of glasshouses at Laverstoke Park which have previously been used for growing chrysanthemums have been converted to organic production of tomatoes, cucumber, leafy salads, aubergines, peppers and French beans. One acre under glass is basil sold as fresh cut herbs for the retail market.
At the end of a two year programme to change to pure organic growing, accreditation ...
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| | Fruit and vegetable supplier Greenery UK has launched a thin skin cucumber, which will be available in selected Sainsbury stores from the end of April.
The variety of cucumber is specially grown for the Greenery by Dutch grower, Robert Bergenhenagouwen.
The cucumbers, which have a very thin translucent skin giving them a mint green colour, are smaller than usual cucumbers. ...
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| | One of the main potato suppliers in Scotland has declined to sign a new contract with Asda.
Taypack Potatoes of Perthshire had previously supplied Asda with 80,000 tonnes of potatoes a year as part of a £32 million a year contract.
Taypack declined to sign the new contract, claiming that Asda had asked them to supply a larger amount of potatoes ...
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| | Although we are still waiting for last year’s figures, we can confirm that the Dutch field vegetable sector accounted for 50,000ha during 2006. Represented by 5,600 growers, the combined production value is reported to be around €470 million of which 45% was exported.
The figures show that the Dutch carrot area rose by 25% during 2006 to 6,000ha, that the pea ...
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| |  Lorraine Berry has joined Clause Vegetable Seeds as Sales Manager for the UK.
After several years employed in technical aspects of crop production, Lorraine workd in commercial range development within the seed trade and has most recently been a horticultural consultant, particularly for salad crops.
Her role will be to strengthen Clause UK’s marketing of its vegetable breeding range, especially in brassicas, ...
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| |  A four year vision initiated by a Surrey plant grower to promote locally grown plants in this country, is nearing completion.
Ornamentals grower Dr. Bill Godfrey, former Chairman of the NFU South East Regional Horticultural Board, whose herbaceous nursery is at Lightwater, believes funding for the promotional campaign to highlight home grown plants and flowers should be cleared this month.
Originally initiated ...
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| |  BerryWorld, one of the UK’s foremost suppliers of quality berries to leading UK retailers, has announced the availability of two new, exclusive UK-bred everbearer strawberry varieties to its customers, namely Sweet Eve and Eves Delight.
Bred by Peter Vinson of the Edward Vinson Breeding Programme based in Faversham, Kent, these two new varieties are exclusive to BerryWorld and offer significant ...
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