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Sales fall up to 7% as consumers favour spicier alternatives New study found customers are choosing spicier sauces over classics such as HP sauce and Heinz tomato ketchup Mayonnaise and salad dressing also becoming more popular according to study Heinz has created Mexican Chilli and Sweet Chilli ketchups to meet demand Tomato ketchup and brown

According to several local sources, China tomato industry is experiencing a quite difficult tomato crop; a late start combined with low yields and adverse weather conditions are driving harvested volumes drastically down. Inner Mongolia factories processed only around 250 000 MT. of fresh fruits and Xinjiang processors predict a rapid decrease of tomato incomes and

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that Nigeria is the 14th largest producer of tomatoes in the world and 2nd only to Egypt in Africa at 1.51 million metric tonnes valued at N87 billion ($556.1 million) with a cultivated area of 264,430 ha. This was revealed at a one-day workshop on Tomato Value

Warren Buffett takes over Heinz ketchup The European Commission has approved on June 3, the takeover of Heinz ketchup by the holding of Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, associated with the Brazilian investment fund 3G Capital. The Commission has investigated the impact of this acquisition on the giant market of dips and fast food, as 3G

Over 8.5 million kgs of tomatoes have been produced for processing this year, up by 30 %, or 2.3 million kgs over last year’s production, agriculture parliamentary secretary Roderick Galdes said yesterday. He was speaking during a visit to the factories of Magro Brothers and Farmers’ Food, both in Gozo, where he also met farmers

Tomato growers and processors will likely be short about $10 million worth of tomatoes after one of the worst growing seasons in decades. “It’s been probably the most difficult year we’ve had in a long, long time,” Leamington processing tomato grower Walter Brown said Wednesday as he thought back over the last 20 years. Brown,

Campbell Soup is in talks to sell its European operations to CVC Capital Partners, but is keeping hold of the largest and fastest growing elements. The proposed deal excludes exports of Pepperidge Farm products to Europe and Campbell’s goods in the UK as well as the Middle East and Africa. Included in the deal are

Phil Richards, past chair of the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers, speaks about the challenges facing local tomato farmers. (Don Robinet/QMI Agency) A combination of frost in May and heavy rains in June and July means that local processing tomato farmers are looking at about 80% of expected yields, according to the past chair of the

A proposal by Australia’s only tomato processor to raise tariffs could signal the end of cheap, imported tinned tomatoes and fruit on supermarket shelves SPC Ardmona, a major tinned-food supplier to supermarket chains, has pleaded with the federal government to introduce emergency tariffs on canned tomato and fruit imports to help resuscitate the beleaguered industry.