Australian apple exports to SE Asia and UK to increase
source: www.freshplaza.com
The Australian apple harvest got underway in mid January in the Riverland, Southern Australia with the Gala apples, while in Tasmania the harvest is just about to start.
Garry Langford, from APAL said the growing season has been good but some very hot weather in the middle of January caused some damage in Victoria. "We are used to hot temperatures and it won't affect the overall volumes which will be just under 300,000 tonnes, around the same as last year."
The first variety harvested is Gala, after that it will be Granny Smiths, Golden and Red Delicious, Cripps Pink and Sundowner...
Kanzi still has enormous growing opportunities in Europe
Sales of Kanzi apples are still increasing, also in the second phase of the season. The CEO of Greenstar Kanzi Europe, Urs Luder, talks enthusiastically about the various campaigns started in the most important European markets. "The campaign contains all elements of a diversified market mix, such as TV-spots, traditional and online PR and various...
U.S. KIKU® brand apples sales up by over 175% from last year
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KIKU® brand apples have become one of the hottest new items for retailers in their supermarket apple section. According to retail data from Nielsen Perishables Group over the past 52 weeks (11-23-13 compared to the same period a year ago) dollar sales for KIKU® apples jumped by over 229%. During the same period, volume increased by nearly 192%...
Though apple tonnage is back to normal this year in France, fruit distributors are having a harder time moving this year's crop due to smaller apple sizes. "When you have smaller sizes you need more consumers to buy apples," said Blue Whale's Marc Peyres. Because consumers typically consume apples by the number of apples rather than by weight, smaller sizes mean less...
The sales of top fruit on the domestic market are going well at the moment. This is according to Zweer van Aalsburg of Fruitmasters. "There are a lot of supermarket deals planned and the prices are fairly stable. At the moment the supply for this period is fairly calm. More growers only start next week, because this is when most employees come back from...
When it comes to apples, Poland is putting itself more and more in the market. Daniel Pastusiak, of Daniel’s Produce Ltd, started his company one year ago and works for the Polish growers. His job is to do the marketing for the apples. He is trying to connect all of the growers and to have one voice coming from the whole of Poland. He explains what is happening on the Polish apple market. "The Polish apple market is growing, but the main problem that Polish apple growers have, is that they don't have a proper marketing plan yet. Polish apples have ...
In Germany during week 2 there were plenty of apples available from their own country. Amounts of Elstar, Jonagold, Braeburn and Boskoop mostly came from their own country and the largest amounts of Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Pink Lady came from Italy. France supplied Jazz and Granny Smith and The Netherlands Cox and Jonagold varieties...
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