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Dan Siekman

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GSF's First Ever Farm Trains Chinese Vegetable Growers in Global Best Practices

In 2016 GSF Fresh started supplying its Guangzhou processing facility with lettuce grown on its own farm in Malong county. This was a first for the Golden State Foods group, which does not typically own its own farms, but instead builds sourcing partnerships with trusted growers and then handles processing and distribution. The farm not only fills seasonal supply gaps for QSR customers in China and Southeast Asia, but also serves as a model farm and G.A.P. training base for GSF Fresh’s other vegetable suppliers.

October 31, 2018
Dan Siekman
Rapid Development for Mr. Avocado as Sales Close in on 70,000 Fruits Per Day

The future looks bright for China-US joint venture Mr. Avocado as it rides surging demand for avocados in China. After only about a year and a half in business, the marketer of ripened avocados is seeing big sales growth. It is also considering adding a third avocado ripening facility in China, and is making progress in construction of an enormous new domestic China avocado growing base.

October 26, 2018
Dan Siekman
OctCLOVErfest Promo Aims to Turn Garlic into Spooky Family Fun

Move aside Easter eggs and jack-o’-lanterns: the US-based produce supplier I Love Produce is this year launching a novel Halloween promotional campaign with the aim to make garlic the new trend in holiday food decorating for consumers in North America. Octcloverfest encourages families to celebrate Halloween by turning whole garlic bulbs into “Monster Garlic” figurines using food-based paint and non-toxic markers.

October 23, 2018
Dan Siekman
How Emerson is Delivering an "End-to-End" Cold Chain Solution to Customers in Asia

Already, a big name in cold-chain infrastructure, Emerson has in the past few years acquired three companies and launched a new business unit called Cargo Solutions, which provides logging and tracking solutions for the products themselves that are moving through the cold chain.

October 16, 2018
Dan Siekman

Emerson Cargo Solutions' "GO" line of logging devices

China's 2018 Apple Output Tumbles – Plus 2017 Season Recap

Following disastrous early-season weather, China’s 2018 apple crop is projected to be roughly 25% smaller than last.

October 15, 2018
Dan Siekman
Exclusive Analysis: The Obstacles Facing China's World-Leading Kiwifruit Industry in 2018

The trend of slumping prices is a sign of major trouble for the kiwifruit industry in China, which produced 2.4 million tons of kiwifruit in 2016, more than half the global total. Produce Report analyzes some of the key challenges facing the kiwifruit industry and reasons behind the weak prices so far this season.

October 11, 2018
Dan Siekman

Domestically produced red-hearted kiwifruit on sale in a Chinese supermarket, alongside imported Zespri brand kiwifruit. Image: MZMC

China Banana Prices Rise in Wake of Typhoon Mangkhut Destruction

Typhoon Mangkhut last month caused heavy losses to key banana producing areas in China’s Guangdong province, further intensifying a trend of rising prices on the domestic China market, according to interviews with farmers and data analysis.

October 08, 2018
Dan Siekman
Israeli Citrus Exports to China up 410% Over Last Five Seasons

“Five to seven years ago, Europe was 90% of Israel’s citrus exports,” said Tal Amit, Director of the Citrus Division of Israel’s Plant Production and Marketing Board, during a presentation earlier this month at the Asiafruit Congress in Hong Kong. “Nowadays, Europe is only about 72 to 73%. We are focusing more and more on the Asian market and also the North American market.”

September 28, 2018
Dan Siekman

Tal Amit, Director of the Citrus Division of Israel's Plant Production and Marketing Board. Photo: MZMC

Capespan Sells its Stake in Joy Wing Mau for $82 million

Capespan, South Africa’s largest fruit exporter, has reportedly sold its 9.23% stake in Chinese fruit company Joy Wing Mau to a group of Chinese investors for RMB 566 million (rand 1.16 billion or USD 82.3 million at current exchange rates).

September 26, 2018
Dan Siekman
A Look at Shine Muscat, China's Hot New Table Grape Variety

Shine Muscat is a crispy, fragrant seedless green grape variety developed in Japan in the late 1980s and then commercialized there in the early 2000s. In the past three years it has made a sudden emergence onto the Chinese market and is now being cultivated around China and can be frequently spotted on sale at a range of retailers, from streetside vendors to high-end supermarkets.

September 12, 2018
Dan Siekman

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