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Cremona, Thursday 27th August 2015 Consorzio Casalasco del Pomodoro, which is a farmers’ cooperative specialized in the production and processing of industrial tomato, completed the merger by incorporation of A.R.P. – Agricoltori Riuniti Piacentini, which operates in Piacenza in the tomato sector (cultivation, processing and distribution) since 1958. The partners meetings of the two cooperatives,

The tomato sector has become the locomotive of the food export in Extremadura. Over the last year, the regional tomato industry exported transformed tomato, preserved or ready-made sauces for nearly 250 million euros. Transformed tomato – with more than 195 million, it is the main export product of Extremadura, in front of fruit, wine, cork

Heinz may mean ketchup in America, but in Israel, it’s now mere « tomato seasoning. » The nation’s health ministry has decreed that Heinz’s version doesn’t have enough « tomato solids » (only 21%) to qualify as ketchup and has downgraded it accordingly, reports the Times of Israel. The ruling still allows « ketchup » to remain on the bottle in

According Ecobank, the tomato production is promised to a bright future in Nigeria. The pan-African bank said in a research note that the time was right to invest in this sector. Indeed, although Nigeria is the first tomato producer in sub-Saharan Africa, it fails to satisfy all its needs and is forced to compensate its

The beverage company Huangtai Liquor principally engaged in the production and distribution of liquor products, announced recently its intention to buy the tomato manufacturer based in Tianjin – Provence Tomato. Provence Tomato Products (Tianjin) Limited Company was established in 2009, owns 16,500 acres for tomato planting and has annual exports of around 130,000 tons. Huangtai

Tianjin is a major port and industrial area to the south-east of the Chinese capital, Beijing and is the world’s 10th-busiest container port. The port become a major gateway to northern China for shipments of tomato paste. Late Wednesday night explosions rocked a hazardous-chemicals storage site in the northern city, killing people and disrupting operations

Conserveria Africana Ghana Limited, importers of GINO and POMO tomato paste, has set up a $1,2 million (GH¢50 million) tomato processing factory at Tema to add value to the product. The state-of-the-art factory with the capacity to produce 25,000 metric tonnes of tomato paste annually would create about 300 direct jobs. President of the CAL,

Arda board chairman Basil Nyabadza told businessdigest on Wednesday in the capital that they were finalising agreements with Schweppes and the project is expected to begin soon. The project is owned by Arda and the Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) with each owning a 50% equity stake. The project is the brainchild of the late