Environmental concerns, convenience eating and longer shelf life are driving developments in fresh-produce packaging, Jack Shamash reports.
The proposed groceries adjudicator will be able to take evidence from third parties, and ultimately to fine supermarkets, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) announced last Friday, meeting key demands of suppliers' representatives.
British Growers Association chief berates retailers over prices after Defra figures show three per cent revenue dip.
With the rain keeping garden centre customers away, how are their nursery suppliers faring? Can this season's sales be rescued? Graham Clarke reports.
Haxnicks has been appointed UK and Ireland distributor of Irrigatia solar automatic watering systems and has sold its first allocation to 25 garden centres within a week.
A £3.6bn potash mine is planned for a site between Whitby and Scarborough in North Yorkshire.
Doff Portland product manager Jude Beharall says the chemical and fertiliser company is selling to 40 new garden centres this year.
Herbaceous perennial plants company Blooms of Bressingham has launched a website with a view to making it easier for consumers to find retail outlets selling its plants and for traders to find licensees and growers.
Roundstone Nurseries growing manager Lynne Seabrook has emphasised the importance of growth regulation as a tool to meet bedding plant uniformity challenges set by customer B&Q.
Fertiliser specialist Solufeed has launched two iron chelate formulations to add to its trace element range.
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