date:Apr 09, 2013
d much less fruit available in Western Europe. That made for high prices throughout the season, and despite those high prices, demand still outstripped supplies. Demand was so strong that supplies would have been exhausted even sooner had suppliers not raised prices further during the middle of the season.
In Europe, we started with high prices because of less fruit, he said. But after two months we had to increase prices to slow down demand because we couldn't supply everyone. That was the cas