date:Nov 12, 2012
Here's a European fruit update from Dirafrost, Herk-de-Stad Belgium:
Cropwise, we witnessed a striking contrast between the goodstrawberry crop in Morocco in spring (20% more volume versus2011) versus the disastrous raspberry crop in Serbia (40% lessthan in 2011).
Marketwise, on a European level we are facing a continuousconcentration of the foodservice groups across Europe. Anothercontinuous trend is the increase of private labels, certainly inthese times of austerity. Euromonitor reports th