News on Potatoes in Retail

The taste of summer at Sainsbury: British Gems
Greenvale, the UK’s leading potato supplier, will be celebrating the return of this season’s British Gems baby new potatoes in Sainsbury’s with a marketing campaign heralding the great British summer and a season jam-packed with iconic British events.»
United Kingdom
June 13, 2013
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Greenvale AP
First Cornish potatoes at Tesco
Tesco stores in the South West of England will receive the first Cornish potatoes from Branston this week.»
United Kingdom
June 11, 2013
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Branston Ltd., Tesco
HZPC wants to ditch dull image of potato
Recently HZPC introduced the WOW concept at the Fruit Logistica in Berlin, in a bid to revamp the current image of the potato.»
Netherlands
April 29, 2013
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HZPC Holland BV
Beyond the traditional potato recipes: how about Potato Chocolate Cake?
With summer entertaining just around the corner, Olympic Gold Medalist Heather Moyse is urging Canadians to look beyond the traditional potato salad, and get more creative when cooking their spuds - think potato chocolate cake!»
Canada
April 22, 2013
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Prince Edward Island Potato Board
Wada opens North Carolina office for sweet potato program
Sweet potatoes have turned into a sweet deal for Wada Farms Marketing Group LLC, which just opened a new sales office in Raleigh, North Carolina, to handle sweet potato volumes that have tripled in the past six years.»
United States
April 18, 2013
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Wada Farms
Tesco fails in the US: Fresh and Easy to be sold
UK retailer Tesco PLC’s ambitious U.S. experiment -- 5-year-old grocery chain Fresh & Easy -- has failed after costing its British parent billions of dollars, the company said Wednesday.»
United States
April 18, 2013
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Tesco
Jersey potato growers losing £2 million per week due to crop delay
Jersey's potato farmers are losing up to two million pounds a week in exports because the bad weather has delayed crops.»
Jersey
April 15, 2013
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Albert Bartlett and Sons
CePa's analysis of Italian and European potato market
The CePa - Potato Documentation Centre (Italy) reports that the weather is still unfavourable for potato cultivation in Europe, causing delays in sowing of the produce destined to industrial processing and fresh consumption on some of the main production areas.»
Italy
April 10, 2013