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NZ: Zespri sales up 16%, profit surges on license payments
Zespri was able to overcome exchange rate challenges to notch a much higher profit and boost orchard gate returns for kiwifruit growers in 2014-15.
July 23 , 2015
China receives spike in Philippine pineapple exports
China received a lot more Philippine pineapples in the first five months of 2015, while Japan and South Korea registered slight declines in imports.
July 23 , 2015
U.S. Appeals Court orders SEC to release Chiquita's Colombian paramilitary payment files
A National Security Archive analyst says the public will now be able to see "what might be the most important document collection ever assembled on corporate ties to terrorism".
July 23 , 2015
U.S.: CDFA adds 87 square miles to Los Angeles HLB quarantine zone
With four cases of citrus greening now confirmed in San Gabriel, a Los Angeles quarantine zone has been expanded by state authorities.
July 22 , 2015
Australia: Costa Group IPO expected at lower end of price range
The Australian reports the Costa Group IPO has received several large orders from the U.S. and the U.K.
July 22 , 2015
State of the Market - Week 29, 2015
A greater supply led to slight negative price adjustments for imported Navel oranges in the U.S. during week 29.
July 22 , 2015
Australian produce trade to blossom with new Melbourne wholesale market
The new Melbourne Market will have four times as much on-site warehousing, with easy access to freeways and the airport for better distribution domestically and abroad.
July 22 , 2015
Italy: Hazelnut hike for Piedmont as major chocolatiers ink production deal
Hazelnut production in Italy is to be given a major boost following an agreement to increase cultivation in the Piedmont growing region.
July 22 , 2015
Tracking device helps fight against Calais truck stowaways
A British industry body is promoting a new portable device that could help buck a stowaway trend that has led to the destruction of produce shipments.
July 22 , 2015
U.S., South Africa join WTO complaint over Costa Rica's avocado import ban
As four countries take on Costa Rica at the WTO over avocado import suspensions, Mexico has called on the nation to prove it is free of sunblotch disease.
July 22 , 2015
