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Fruitnet podcasts
by Fruitnet Media
Discussion, analysis and insight from Fruitnet, the leading source of news and analysis for the global fresh produce business.
Episodes
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95 · Sir Charles Godfray, Oxford University
Sir Charles Godfray gave this year's prestigious City Food & Drink Lecture in London. He talks to Chris White about how the food system needs to change to adapt to the challenges of population growth and climate change. It's good news for our business of fresh fruits and vegetables. Fruitbox is...
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94 · Abs van Rooyen, Clemengold
Clemengold founder Abs van Rooyen talks to Chris White about how the South African citrus brand has gone global. Its development has lessons for produce branding in future. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global audience...
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93 · Carlos Bonet & José Vottero, Fresh Fruit-X
Carlos Bonet and José Vottero of FRESH FRUIT-X talk to Chris White about how the growth of supermarkets in places like Vietnam and Malaysia is powering the growth of their new business focused on fresh fruit and vegetable marketing in South East Asia. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone…
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92 · Russell Allwell, Driscoll's Europe
Driscoll's Europe managing director Russell Allwell talks to Chris White about the steps for its new acquisition in the UK and the ongoing growth opportunities for berries. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global audience...
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91 · Yuyuh Sukmana, Vanguard International
Yuyuh Sukmana, the Jakarta-based South-East Asia regional manager for Vanguard International. talks to Chris White about the prospects for South-East Asia in view of the slowdown in demand in China. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts…
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90 · Matt Palise, Red Rich Fruits
Matt Palise of Red Rich Fruits talks to Chris White about how a fresh produce business deals with the high costs that go with marketing fresh fruits and vegetables in Australia. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global...
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89 · Anne Dingstad, Saga Robotics
Anne Dingstad, the newly-appointed chief executive of Saga Robotics, talks to Chris White about the future of automation in fresh fruits and vegetables. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global audience that tunes in to hear...
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88 · David Axiotis and John Hey, Asia Fruit Logistica
Asia Fruit Logistica and Asiafruit Congress are back: Chris White talks to David Axiotis and John Hey about the in-person return of Asia'a favourite fresh produce event to Bangkok from 2-4 November 2022. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode...
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87 · Kristian Moeller, GlobalGAP
Kristian Moeller of GlobalGAP talks to Chris White about the latest improvements to the world's most widely used system to certify fresh fruit and vegetables. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global audience that tunes in…
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86 · Marc Peyres, Blue Whale
Marc Peyres of Blue Whale talks Chris White about the major challenges facing growers and exporters of apples and pears in Europe and the rest of the world. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global audience that tunes in to...
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85 · Dominik Wozniak Philippe Binard WAPA
World Apple & Pear Association president Dominik Wozniak and secretary general Philippe Binard talk to Chris White about the coming season for apples and pears in Europe and plans for World Apple Day this 15 November. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business.…
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84 ·Matt Holland, TIVE
In this sponsored episode of Fruitbox, Matt Holland of TIVE talks to Chris White about how supply chain disruption now requires new technical solutions that improve transparency and allow for immediate fixes. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every…
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83 · Bostjan Novak, Evrosad
Bostjan Novak of Evrosad Trznica talks to Chris White about how Slovenia's biggest apple marketer has developed a new retail outlet to sell a wide range of locally-grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts…
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82 · Rob Harrison, Berry Gardens
Rob Harrison of Britain's largest berry business Berry Gardens talks to Chris White about the short-term challenges and long-term opportunities in the UK berry market, plus what to expect from Driscoll's' deal to buy into the business. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh...
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81 · Johnathan Sutton, Westfalia
Johnathan Sutton of global avocado grower and marketer Westfalia talks to Chris White about how sustainability is playing a much more central role in the marketing of avocados. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global…
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80 · Margriet Looije, Looye Kwekers
Margriet Looije of Dutch tomato grower and marketer Looye Kwekers talks to Chris White about how focusing on quality and taste has helped grow sales. Recorded live at Global Tomato Congress in The Hague on 24 May 2022. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business....
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79 · Iryna Kukhtina, Ukraine Berries Association
Chris White talks to Iryna Kukhtina of Ukraine Berries Association who explains how business continues despite Russia's invasion of her country and how the world can help by buying fresh fruits and vegetables from Ukraine. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce…
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78 - Dan McAlpine,City Harvest London
Chris White talks to City Harvest London's head of food Dan McAlpine about how fresh fruit and vegetable businesses can help feed people in need in Western Europe's biggest city. Fruitbox is essential listening for everyone in the fresh produce business. Every episode attracts a large global...
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77 · The fallout from Ukraine
What impact is Russia's invasion of Ukraine having on fresh produce markets around the world? Chris White talks to Fabio Zanesco of ViP, Juan Gonzalez Pita of Salix Fruits, and Justin Chadwick of South Africa's Citrus Growers Association in this specially extended edition of Fruitbox.
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76 · Samantha Lane, Florida Department of Citrus
FDOC global marketing manager Samantha Lane tells Chris White about the comeback for Florida grapefruit. Fruitbox is produced by Fruitnet Media International. Each episode attracts a global fresh produce business audience that tunes in to hear exclusive interviews and expert analysis. Fruitbox is...
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75 · Synnøve Johansson, Hoogstraten
Many of the world’s leading tomato suppliers have invested heavily in better-tasting varieties, but the widespread perception that tomatoes ‘don’t really taste of anything’ seems to persist. Why is that? For Synnøve Johansson, business development manager at Belgian cooperative Hoogstraten, the...
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74 · Kai Mangelberger, Fruit Logistica
Fruit Logistica has been postponed from February to April, a point in time when the world’s leading fresh produce trade fair should be safer, not to mention more accessible. Kai Mangelberger, project director of Fruit Logistica, believes the decision was a necessary one. “if you look at all the...
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73 · Juan Martín Hilbert, San Miguel
Lemons have been an undoubted sales success for the fresh produce industry in the past few years. But for Juan Martín Hilbert, fresh fruit commercial director at the world’s largest lemon producer, San Miguel, it is not yet time to start cutting slices for a round of celebratory drinks. “There…
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72 · Orlando Wong, Able Freight
The importance of air cargo services to the global fresh produce business has certainly taken off in the past 18 months as the Covid-19 pandemic has landed ocean container shipping networks with a major circulation problem. As Orlando Wong explains in the latest episode of Fruitnet’s conversation...
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71 · Mark Landini, Landini Associates
If you were to design the perfect supermarket, what would it look like? So the story goes, at one point during Aldi Australia’s recent network redesign, one of the group’s two managing directors was asked what he thought of some proposed store visuals. “It doesn’t matter what I think,” he...
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70 · Mehdi El Alami, Morocco FoodEx
Fresh fruit and vegetables from Morocco are not new to the UK, but the potential market opportunity for its exporters following Brexit certainly appears greater. What better time then to encourage more trade between the two countries, especially with the UK no longer trading from within the...
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69 · David Axiotis, Asia Fruit Logistica
As with so many industries, the pandemic brought the world of trade exhibitions to its knees over the past 18 months. There is still another year to go before Asia Fruit Logistica, Asia’s biggest and most international fresh fruit and vegetable trade event, can open its doors again. But for the...
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68 · Marion Regan, Hugh Lowe Farms
Smaller strawberries could meet new consumer demand for ultra-convenient, healthy foods and mimic the kind of success that blueberries have had in recent years as a popular snack item. That’s according to Marion Regan, managing director of Hugh Lowe Farms, a major supplier of strawberries,...
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67 · Mike Corbett, Tesco
The supermarkets’ rapid rise has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the amount of data that flows along their supply chains. But as Tesco’s technical manager for salads Mike Corbett explains in the latest episode of Fruitbox, all of that information helps to reassure consumers that the…
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66 · Nico Broersen Junior, AgriPlace
What does ‘managing your data better’ actually mean? For Nico Broersen Junior of Dutch startup AgriPlace, it can be something as simple as reducing the volume of emails you send and receive, or minimising the number of times you enter information into a spreadsheet. Even for tech-savvy people in...
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65 · Michele Dall'Olio, Fresh4cast
Artificial intelligence can now be used to predict the future with unprecedented accuracy. That’s good news for companies in the fruit and vegetable business, where the products’ sheer unpredictability in terms of yield and shelf-life remains the industry’s biggest inherent challenge. Michele...
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64 · Giles Barker, KisanHub
Experience, instinct, maybe even just gut feeling – all of these things play an important part in helping fresh produce companies make strategic decisions. But in a world where computers are able to collect and even interpret an increasing volume of potentially useful information relating to…
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63 · Carles Doménech, AgroFresh
Finding a safe and sustainable way to extend the shelf-life of fruit and vegetables represents an important priority for anyone in the business of selling fresh produce. That’s why shelf-life extension technologies like SmartFresh, first launched around two decades ago to great acclaim in the…
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62 · Inci Danneberg, Bayer
Fresh fruit and vegetables have a central role to play in safeguarding the health of consumers all over the world. That’s the view of Inci Dannenberg, Head of Global Vegetable Seeds Strategic Marketing for the Crop Science division of Bayer. Speaking during Fruitnet’s World of Fresh Ideas, a free...
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61 · Gilad Sadan, Navi Co Global
For Gilad Sadan, the term ‘box fresh’ has a real resonance. Not just for the fruit and vegetable products housed in the carefully designed packaging his Melbourne-based consultancy Navi Co Global helps to create, but for all kinds of consumer goods – including a newly delivered pair of green…
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60 · Juan Gonzalez Pita, Salix Fruits
Long distances can always be overcome in the fresh produce trade. Juan Gonzalez Pita has proven that beyond doubt since he co-founded import-export firm Salix Fruits around ten years ago. From small beginnings in his home country of Argentina, the group has become a key player in several of the...
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59 · Professor David Hughes, Imperial College London
David Hughes, known to many as Dr Food, has just been handed a hypothetical shopping trolley stuffed with several billion dollars, then asked where in the food industry he wants to invest the money. “Where would I put it? High-value horticulture,” he replies. “I would pick the highest value crop...
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58 · Ruth McLennan, Dairy Farm Group
Even in Asia, a market with a deserved reputation for being at the cutting edge of grocery ecommerce, the past year has seen major advances in the development of this new retail arena. That’s the view of Ruth McLennan, commercial director for south-east Asia at Dairy Farm, one of Asia’s largest...
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57 · Miya Knights, Retail Technology
Shopping for fruit and veg may soon be a whole lot easier if Amazon’s much-heralded ‘just walk out’ technology becomes a common feature of grocery retailing. The ecommerce giant opened its first (and indeed second) Amazon Fresh store outside North America in London earlier this month. But what…
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56 · Daniel Kats, InFarm
Despite its name, InFarm’s roots are very much in the market. In February 2021, the Berlin-based urban farming startup announced the creation of new growing centres to supply fresh produce to the likes of Edeka, Lidl and Kaufland. Starting in Germany and extending very soon to the UK…
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55 · Lisa Raschia, Marks & Spencer
Anyone familiar with upmarket British supermarket chain Marks & Spencer might not expect one of its star fruit and veg performers over the past year to be a two-kilo bag of potatoes. That’s not to say it has stopped innovating at the premium end of the market – something proven by the launch of…
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54 · Tom Stenzel, United Fresh
During what has been a tumultuous and unpredictable four years for the US politically and socially, it’s fair to say that life in the country’s fresh fruit and vegetable business has been a little less uncertain. However, as in most parts of the world, the impact of Covid-19 has been…
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53 · Philippe Binard, Freshfel
Covid continues to cast a long shadow over the European fresh produce business. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, trade association Freshfel Europe set about assessing the impact of the crisis on Europe’s fruit and vegetable trade. Now, after nearly a year of unprecedented disruption to...
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52 · Ben Page, Ipsos Mori
How has Covid-19 changed our attitudes as consumers? And what will happen next as a result? Two hugely important questions for any company, but especially so for those involved in the fruit and vegetables business, which has seen massive spikes in demands as well as severe shocks to some of its...
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51 · Toño Pons, Importaco
To say that Christmas means a great deal for dried fruit and nut suppliers is like saying chocolate companies quite enjoy Easter. In fact, for Europe’s largest dried fruit and nut company, Importaco, the festive period usually contributes around 40 per cent of its total annual sales. But as the...
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50 · Raffaele Benedetti, Unitec
Raffaele Benedetti thinks grading technology could soon be able to pick out the best fruit according to its nutritional qualities, a development that could open the door to products being marketed on the basis of specific health benefits. “I think the next step will be in this direction,” he...
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49 · Robert Wells, SH Pratt Group
Change is in the air as the UK prepares to cut loose from its trading alliance with the EU. When it comes to banana imports, however, it’s likely to be business as usual from 1 January 2021, even if the country’s importers remain wary of potential disruption to the labour provision and logistical...
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48 · Marc Evrard, BFV
The looming possibility of a no-deal Brexit might be a major headache for some in the fresh produce business, but for the commercial director of one of Belgium’s largest fruit exporters it’s uncertainty, rather than the probable impact, that is causing most concern. In late November, as BFV’s…
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47 · Steve Magami, Agrovision
Investing in Peruvian horticulture is very much a safe bet, despite the political unrest seen in the country over the past couple of weeks. That’s according to Steve Magami, co-founder and chairman of Agrovision, who was speaking to Chris White in the latest episode of Fruitnet’sweekly…
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46 · Mario Ocharan, PromPerú
The importance of Asian markets to Peruvian fresh produce companies continues to grow, according to Mario Ocharan, export director of the country’s foreign trade and tourism body PromPerú. Speaking to Chris White during the latest episode of Fruitbox, Fruitnet’s series of conversations about the...
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