Fresh fruit and vegetable processor Dole Food Company has sold its ready-to-eat salad business, Saba Fresh Cuts AB and OY, operating in Sweden and Finland, to BAMA International, it was announced recently.

The Argentinean peach cannery Alco-Canale, in bankruptcy since October 2017 after going through financial difficulties for years, is now for sale.

Boris Titov, head of Abrau-Durso, who also serves as a business ombudsman in Russia, has said that the company will initially focus on the production of light wine and champagne.

Coca-Cola’s strategy is to offer packaging containing at least 50% recycled content by 2030. As part of this strategy, via its Cross Enterprise Procurement Group (CEPG), it will buy Loop PET at a new plant that Loop, a Canadian PET recycler, is setting up in the US and which will be operational in 2020.

India is a key market for the Californian Almond Board (ABC), having developed an ambitious promotion policy to increase its daily consumption.

The South African deciduous fruit industry, the Jobs Fund, and Land Bank have announced the first ever blended finance scheme for people/entities who want to enter or expand their businesses in the fruit and wine industries; targeting (at least) 51% black-owned entities.