London Produce Show 2019

Garth Swinburn - VP of Licencing at Sun World Innovations spoke about the challenges facing modern breeders, it takes 20 years to get a new variety to market how do you know it will be what the consumer wants?

There was a panel discussion on what we can expect in the next ten years, what will be the major challenges and opportunities. Panel members were Garth Swinburn - VP of Licencing Sunworld AU, Oscar Salgado San Lucar, Ricardo Koch - GM at Rio Blanco Chile, Andy Kampa - Robinson Fresh, Rupert Maude - El Ciruelo, Johan Fouche - The Grape Company, and Nitin Agrawal - Euro Fruits. The session was moderated by Jim Jefcoate - Hurdletree Associates.

Marco has a stand in the networking area and were kept busy during the breaks. Mariette Hillborne and James Moore were on hand to tell visitors about Marco's products.

Don Goodwin, President of Golden Sun Marketing gave some great insight in to marketing fresh produce, telling the story behind a product and using packaging to sell the goods.

George Liu - CEO of Frutacloud China gave some insight into the Chinese market. Chinese consumers are way ahead of the rest of the world with online shopping and do a lot of research before they buy a product, online marketing has great opportunities here.

Alejandro Fuentes from Agricola Don Ricardo in Peru showed how Peru is really becoming a force to be reckoned with on a global scale. The scale of expansion in the country is immense and future potential huge.

There was panel discussion on retail opportunities in the UK, delgate heard from retailers and buyers about the trends and consumer demands. Josh Kann - MMUK, Louisa Reed - M&S, Paul Farmer - Fruit and Floral and Karen Cleave - Richard Hochfeld were on the panel with Carlo Berardi - Agrimessina as moderator.

Tony Elliot – Griffin & Brand shared some great stories of days gone by in the produce industry.

The calm before the storm - the tradeshow was all set up ready for a busy day.

Elijah Hunter – Finn, Carl Paradiso, Kiri Centala, Jason Danciger from the Hana Group.

Hannes Nieuwoudt and Fernando Crisosto from Dole.

Marcel van Bruggen from ABC Logistics and Nicole le Grijs from University of Lincoln.

Hannah Gorvin – London Produce Show, Maria Wieloch – ICA and Gill McShane – London Produce Show.

The ladies who work hard behind the scenes.

Ben Naylor, Simon Naylor, Victoria Naylor, Lauren Meir, Miranda Freeman and Richard Harper.

Nigel Jenney – Fresh Produce Consortium, Fred Searle – FPJ, Jenny Palmer - Fresh Produce Consortium and Max MacGillivray – Red Fox Recruitment.

Avnish Malde, Greg Pitts, Per Hogberg, Paul Tilbury – The team from Wealmoor.

Edwin vanlaerhoven – Valstar and Luc Bruneel – Hoogstraten.

Matthew Barrit – Valstar, Carl Wulfrank and Paul Van de Mierop – Hoogstraten.

Dane Joubert and Petri van der Merwe Sun World Innovations, Geoff Green – Capespan, Ramsey Dean – Global Pacific and Ben Taieb – Capespan.

Luiz Eduardo Ruffaelli and Hamza Sethi from BE Fruit Brazil.

Robert Borley – AMS Export, Matt Hancock – Norton Folgate, Mike Parr – PML.

Simon Wouters – Bel Export, Greta Knapen – Enzafruit Belgium, Tony Derwael - Bel Export and Suzy Janssis – Enzafruit.

Madlen Miseruis- Fruit Logistica Berlin, Ger van Burik Holland Fresh Group, Hugo A-Tjak – Door Partners, Perry Dekkers – Cooperatie Door and Wilco Muller, Dutch Embassy.

Mecco Ibraham – Women in Food, James Haywood – Open Kitchen, Catherine Farinha – Chefs Kitchen.

Jan England – England Marketing, Alexandra Duncan – Chef's Forum

Dina Marshall, Mark Tweddle, Tony Elliot, Ben O’Brian and Gary Marshall.

Yvonne Tweddle and Gareth Wilcock from Jupiter Marketing.

Matthew Barritt - Valstar, Marcel van Bruggen - ABC Logistics and Quincey Barrow - Valstar

Marcel Verdellen and Luuk Oortwijn from Satori Holland.

Bianca van Wingerden - Rainbow International and Marco Romijn - Snijpunt.

Chris Tisch and Rene van Gees from Van Geest International.

Charlotte Moseley and Dawne Lang from Langmead Herbs.

TIPA were at the show for the first time compostable packaging Amir Gross and Marc Fouche were at the stand.

Sarah Calcutt from PIP was visiting the tradeshow.

Sarah Weston and Darren Percy were on hand at the Schur Star Syetems stand to talk about the packing lines.

Top Fruits Malaysia who supply tropical fruit has some novel items - chocolate coated durian lollies and durian coffee which was actually quite good!

Carl Wulfrank and Paul van de Mierop from Coöperatie Hoogstraten.

Eva Brady - Stronger Together, an organisation to protects (seasonal) workers from the dangers of slave labour and corruption as well as the many other dangers they face when working away from home.

Francisco Riera Romero and Juan Carlos Yepez Franco were part of the Pro Ecuador stand.

Serbia Does Apples! at the tradeshow for the first time. Dragoslav Bovan, Bojana Vukasinovic, Julka Toskic and Milan Zivkovic.

Marcus Kelly and Nilay Kandar at Pan United.

Rynd Bougas from Green Marketing South Africa.

Colin Galpin and Herman Englebrecht - Karsten UK, Alwyn Dippenaar - Dippenaar Choice Fruit, Altus Laubscher and Marcel Verleg - Karsten UK.

Maersk have a new ap called Captain Peter, to alert customers of temperature changes or loss of power. in container before they arrive at the port. The ap was named after Peter in the photo. James Hammond, Yvonne Greda, (Captain) Peter Wedell-Neergaard and Danny Wright.

Ken Whitacre - London Produce Show and Gary York - Robinson Fresh.

Herberto Reyes runs a logistics brokerage company in the US, going direct to clients to cut the supply chain.

Wayne Milne and Ophelia Wells at the Halo stand.

Darren Bevan from JDM Food Group was visiting the show.

Eunice Silva, Joaquim Praxedes from Vale da Rosa.

Nitin Agrawal and his beautiful daughter Nidhi were visitng the show. Nidhi has recently joined the family business Euro Fruits which export Indian grapes.

Gonzalos Hernandes and Christian Urban from Santa Maria grape exporters.

Smiles all round at BE Fruits, the company export limes from Brazil. Hamez Sethi, Liuz Eduardo Raffaelli and Kati Santos.

Zeynep Tiki, Sahap and Kemal Kandemir from Eat me Fresh, Amsterdam.

George Smith from Washington Apples/North West Cherries was visiting the show.

The lovely team from Jupiter Marketing- Francesca Hopkins, Gareth Wilcock, Yvonne and Mark Tweddle and Tennison Hoofard from Sunview.

James Moore and John Heard from Marco were visiting the tradeshow.

Rupert Carter from the Fruitery an extension of Chambers.

Ben Naylor from Naylor Farms was presenting a new coleslaw, along withh other products, which has a shelflife of 120 days using a cold press technique.

Josh Greene was manning the stand for G's Fresh.

Jai and Rodney Thakrar from Jalaram Fruit with pineapple from Costa Rica.

Zeenat Anjari with a beautiful display of fruit and vegetables from New Covent Garden Market.

Apeel have aa plant-based coating for fruit which can double the shelflife, Godon Robertson was at the stand.

Sian Thomas Fresh Produce Consortium, a well know face in the industry.

A very Dutch 'fiets' on the Holland stand.

Russel Duggan at the Mudwalls stand with a new apple juice made from Junami apples, they now have almost 12 month supply of the Junami apples in the UK.

One Banana is a 3rd generation family company supplying bananas from Guatamala, Ecuador and Peru. Robert Adams was at he stand.

Francisco Lledo, Josefina Meno and Pedro Robles at Moyca.

Juan Motilla from Motilla Spain was visiting the show.

Family team at Reynolds - Nick, Tony and Tom Reynolds.

Nicola Pisano, Natalia Santos Garcia Bernabe and Helene Deruwe from FreshFel Europe.

A lovely display of exotic fruit from Wealoor.

Another nice display of vegetables from Wealmoor.

Ger van Burik with Floris Kinkel from Levarht

Saverio Fuccillo, sales export manager of Peviani. Among the most exported products, there are mini seedless watermelons and seedless table grapes.

Jess Craften, Matthew Churchill and Sarah Gibson from Greencell Westfalia. The avocado experts ripen, pack and supply to the retail, foodservice and wholesale sectors in the UK.

The company offered Avocado Gelato ("ice cream") in three variants.

Sara Grasso and Salvo Laudani, Oranfrizer sales export manager and marketing manager. The Italian company produces and distributes a full range of Sicilian citrus fruits, mainly red oranges. A 100% not-from-concentrate juice is also supplied by Oranfrizer Juice, complemented by the BIOR line of organic juices.

Graziano De Filippis and Antonio Giuliano from OP Giuliano. Table grapes, stone fruits and citrus fruits are in the range of products offered by the company.

Massimiliano Persico and Massimo Bellotti, Canton Pack's head of strategic marketing and export sales manager. The Italian company is a food packaging solutions provider. One of its three business units is the production of packaging for the fruit and vegetable industry.

Jacopo Diamanti and Isabella Palumbo from UNACOA-Salvi. UNACOA markets the Salvi brand worldwide for kiwifruit, pears, apples, table grapes, citrus, strawberries, and stone fruits. The group directly manages 1,700 hectares of production owned by the Salvi family and 1,000 associated growers belonging to the Italian producer organisations AFE and CJO.

Rita Biserni and Matteo Tomasini from Alegra. The Italian Group counts Europe's leading retailers among its customers and main production crops are stone fruits, kiwifruit (gold and green), pears, apples, grapes, citrus and a wide range of vegetables.

Javier Argueta, San Rafael Industries managing director. Growers, packers and shippers of the best fresh typical Asian and Hispanic produce.

Francesco Messina, Carlo Berardi and Alfio Messina from AgriMessina, leading Italian exporter of seedless table grapes into UK market.

AgriMessina table grape packaging for e-commerce.

Rafael Martín, commercial manager for Agrícola Chapi, a family business focused on growing and marketing fresh, quality avocados, table grapes and asparagus.

The Alcove of Holland Fresh Group. Dutch importers and exporters presented their fresh fruits and vegetables.

Ramiro Martinez from the Mexican Aguacates Chahena, a newly-created, world-class company dedicated to the production and distribution of Hass avocados.

Pieter de Keijzer, business development manager citrus, grapes and mango for Camposol.The Dutch company goal is offering the highest quality, the freshest, most tasty and delicious fruits to partners and consumers around the world.

Martin Olverson (head of reefer UK), Alice Jones (reefer sales manager northern area) and Robert Waterman (chief executive officer) from CMA CGM UK. With a diverse fleet of 509 vessels, CMA CGM Group serves 420 commercial ports and operates more than 200 shipping lines.

Italian managers (visitors and exhibitors) involved in the table grape sector. From left to right: Marco Tempesta (Avi Arra Europe), Carlo Lingua (Ceo AVI, RK Growers and RK Products), Graziano De Filippis and Antonio Giuliano (OP Giuliano), Maurizio Ventura (Licensing Manager Europe for SunWorld International).

Junior Silveira from COOPA-Cooperativa Agricola de Petrolina (Brazil) that produces and exports seedless table grapes of high quality, with a range of the most diverse colours and varieties.

The women of City Harvest, the first London-based food redistribution charity. In less than five years, it has rescued food for 5 million meals.

The California Agricultural Export Council and its members market dried and fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and olive oil from the farms and fields of California to supermarket shelves and restaurant tables all over the world.

California Raisins promoted the usage and versatility of 100% natural sun-dried California raisins.

Discovered.nl branded, ready to eat avocados and mangos.

As a market leader in the export of Dutch greenhouse vegetables, Haluco bv wants to be the best partner to clients and suppliers. The company offers also open-fields vegetables and supply fruits and vegetables from other parts of the world.

Tommies snack tomatoes "good to-go" on display in the Alcove reserved to Dutch companies.

Wiskerke Onions is the largest packer and exporter of onions for the consumer market. The Dutch company supplies the full product assortment from yellow to red onions, Banana shallots, specialties and organic produce.

Sun World Innovations grapes and their brands.

This year saw a record number of attendees at the event. There were seminars and chef’s demonstrations running throughout the one-day exhibition.

John Cockle (Chiquita Europe) and Christopher Lazaro (Chiquita Brands International).

The Chiquita Blue Stickers are immediately recognizable!

Joseph Willoughby and Manuel Chopitea-Kober from APHA-Animal and Plant Health Agency, an executive agency of Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK.

Jake Barwood (food coordination assistant), Lucy Cullen (marketing & communications officer-food) and Elina Kanela (senior marketing and communications officer - food) from FareShare, trusted redistribution partner to major UK retailer, including Tesco, Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, Aldi and others.

Charlotte Senior, corporate partnerships manager for Farm Africa, an innovative charity that reduces poverty in rural eastern Africa by helping framers to grow more, sell more and sell for more.

FruitNveg4Kids is an initiative to encourage children at primary schools to engage and learn baout fruit and vegetables, as part of an awareness campaign for healthier living.

The Drawing Competition 2019 is sponsored by The Embassy of The Netherlands in the UK on behalf of the Dutch fresh fruit and vegetable sector.

ABRAFRUTAS, the Brazilian Fruit Growers and Exporters Association, is a non-profit organisation that support producers via competitive intelligence and promotional activities worldwide. From left to right: Victor Castanheira (Grupo Leve Sabores), Heiko Freitag (Itacitrus), Jorge de Souza (Abrafrutas), Carlos Eduardo Teixeira and Ronaldo de Lima Araujo (Sebastião da Manga).

José Velasco García and Rupert Maude from Grupo El Ciruelo, a privately-owned growing, packing and exporting company based in the southeast of Spain, in the province of Murcia. The groups grows 2,000 ha of table grapes and 1,200 ha of stonefruit.

Maja Uroševic, commercial director for Ciric Agro, and Petar Popovic from Green Energy Group. Both the companies are Serbian and involved . Ciric Agro produces 15 apple varieties.

Mark Bradnum in representation of Pico Group, one of Egyptian producing end exporting companies. The product range includes strawberries, table grapes, stone fruit, avocados, citrus, mangoes, dates, blackberries, raspberries and bananas.

José María Naranjo Mejias, business development & marketing director for Tany Nature, internationally recognised for being the largest producer of stonefruit in Southern Hemisphere.

The team of Fermac Cargo, international freight forwarders, specialising in transporting fruits and perishable products by air and sea.

Charif Christian Carvajal, marketing director Europe, Asia & Middle East for Chilean Fruit Exporters Association. Proud of citrus from Chile.

Cecilia de Orbegoso and Joanna Meza from Trade & Investment Office Embassy of Peru in the UK.

Maurizio Ventura, licensing manager Europe for Sun World International. The Sun World Innovations (platinum sponsor of The London Produce Show and Conference) is a division with the mission to create better fruit varieties, through traditional plant breeding, and to commercialize and license those varieties to its global base of licensed producers and marketers, in 16 countries around the world.

A most exotic grape, Sun World's SABLE SEEDLESS® brand black grapes are 15% sweeter than average grapes, and blend exquisite Muscat and tropical flavors for a singular palate pleasing experience. Wonderfully delicious as a snack, in a salad or as a delectable dessert, these grapes are a summer jewel. Well appreciated on the UK markets.

Maurizio Ventura explained to Deputy Chief of Mission Yael Lempert (US Embassy in UK) the different table grape varieties developed by Sun World Innovations breeding program.