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Fruit Logistica 2012

Marc Peyres from Blue Whale

Avner Galili from Juran

The team of Tom Lange International

Mary Ramos and Steve Mackey from CF Fresh

Torbjörn Engelholm from Formit

George Smith together with a colleague promote Washington Apple

Andrew Brown represents the California Table Grape Commission

Shiri Silagi and Irit Gonen form Agriver

Thomas C.Reese and Craig Smith from Intelleflex visit the show

Iain Forbes, Russell Comport and Kris Marceca from US Apple Export Council

The team of USA Pears

Itzhak Vizenberg and Malou Even from Arava Export Growers

Pierre Aguerre from Prim'land

Team of AgroFresh

Benjamin Martin, Richard Vollebregt, Robert Rouhof (Vonder Montage) and Sergio Montesinos from Cravo Equipment

Sabiha Shakil, Marnix Lange (cook) and Laura Santamaria from Nunhems

Oron Ziv and Sander Venema from Mehadrin with a restyled and bigger booth.

Meredith Stevens promotes Pink Lady apples.

André van der Wiel (tacler) and Andreas Schindler (Don Limón)

Helen Aquino (Village Farms), Edward Verbakel (Verbakel Bomkas) and Paul Selina (Village Farms)

Jan Doldersum, woking in China, from Rijk Zwaan promotes Love My Salad

Chantal Yazbek from Farm Secure.

Press conference for the Nergi kiwiberry to be commercialised by Primland, France and Fruit World, the Netherlands. Developed by Plant & Food Research New Zealand, Sofruileg are the master licenee for Europe. Photo - Andrew MacKenzie and Wendy Cashmore from Plant & Food Research NZ and Francois Lafitte and Jean Pierre Caruel from Sofruileg, France.

Mark Prentice from the Potato Council.

Dave Rodden is on hand to explain the benefits of Advanced Ripening Technology's ripening systems.

The team at Herbert Engineering, who celebrated their 40th anniversary with new products. Left to right - Krzysztof Kajrys, Mark Verschuren, Adrian Head and Glen Burt.

James Thorburn explains all about Restrain's products.

Tim Hammond, International Development Director shows the range of products from Albert Bartlett.

Just some of the potatoes in the Albert Bartlett range.

David Bishop at the ICA stand.

Stephen Meenaghan demonstrates how biofresh's products keep produce fresh for longer.

Duane Hill shows the new Root Veg Polisher from the Haith Group.

Andy Streeting from Radix demonstrates the new Auto sort MC-D.

Ben Ward at the AMC Group stand.

Gerda Bolton with the products from Apollo/Pan United.

Colin Platt and Mandy Hart explain how the new waste management system works.

Jaco van Tubbergh from FVC and Laca Antonietti from Nova Fruit.

Nicholas Marston on hand at the berry Garden's stand.

Robert Devlin and Pauric Young promote Meade Potato Co on the Irish stand.

Samuel Dennigan jnr. from Sam Dennigan with Micheal Kennedy from K&K Produce on the Irish stand.

Robert Burns from SASA explains about the quality of Scottish seed potatoes.

Noel O'Leary on the Hot Box stand.

Crop Aid were present with a range of biological and ecological products for horticulture, Aydin Tanseli was at the stand.

James Gallacher and David MacDonald present the range of packing trays from Cullen Packaging.

Black garlic proved to be a huge success at the trade fair, Charles Conder, Commercial Manager and Richard Greenyer were kept busy.

Richard Woolard demonstrates stilts used for tomato and fruit harvesting, manufactured by Carobyn Products.

Simon Cooper from jupiter marketing ltd.

Veronique Richard and Sandra Evans return to Fruit Logistica with their packaging solutions from Sirane.

Debbie Mole, Emma Smith and Darren Beven were kept busy with the big selection of Just Add products in the range this year.

Gary Harrison presents Jazz apples from Worldwide fruit, which have recently entered the Thai market.

Cristian Lopez from ProChile chats to Mathieu Leveque at the Keelings stand.

The team from Mpact: Ralph von Veh, Neil Waterer and JB Steenkamp.

Stanley Smith and Felice Tocchini. Top chef Felice gave cooking demonstrations with sweet potatoes at the Scott Farms Int stand, there was cake, soup, salad and juice all delicious!

Marius Denton and Johan Richter from GoReefers enjoy a chat with Francois Hugo from Pomona Fruit at the South African stand.

The team from Fruitways, Chris Moodie, Alastair Moodie and Rupert Meikle.

Adam Hill from from Greencell at the Westfalia stand.

Ramona Gounden and Elaine Alexander from SATI.

Piet Smit explains the initiatives of the South African Citrus Producer's Forum.

The busy team at Halls took a moment to pose for the photo: Paul Whitnall, Francois Bellivier Paul Devlin and Michael Martin.

Felix Jara Galleguillos at Foodinvest.

Alexander Plasschaert presents the packaging at the Sharpak stand.

Roy Fine from Afrifresh busy at the South African stand.

Charlie Rich always with a smile at the Tong Peal stand.

Nick Kemp and Mick Ward were at Fruit Logistica for the first time with the bag sealing machine from Select Bag Sealers, which received a lot of interest.

William Bell Product Director at K3 AX.

Rebecca Foster, Alex Howells and Wouter Conradie at the NSF CMi stand.

Yvonne Neeson, representative for Country Crest at the Irish stand.

Jonathon Snape and David Somerville at Mylefield Research Services.

Colm McDonnell from Irish Potato Marketing.

Ronaldo Olivares Ahumda and Pedro Rodrigues, San Gabriel.

Francis Wheatley, Technical Manager at AG Thames.

William Bell and Sarah Winterbottom, K3 AX.

Total Produce.

Tom Gaskin, Pat Gaskin and Richard Gaskin at the Techno Fresh Consultancy stand.

Marc Rooms from Safmarine.

Talking to clients at the ASA-Lift stand.

Fred Douven at BBC Technologies.

Daniel Pitton and Olivier Kleynen present electronic sorting machines at the Visar stand.

Kim Jensen presents the ScanStore Packaging products.

Thomas Heinicke presents the NEWTECH CCF machine for packing cherry tomatoes.

Ready to help at Hapag-Lloyd.

Iris Zarfin and Berto Levy from Gaia, specialised in herbs, celebrate the first anniversary of the company on 8 February 2012.

Emeline Lesenechal, Emmanuel Meullenet and Nicolas Mounaris from Dynaplast

Rupert Matzer from Fruit Security

Scott Jared and Eileen McHale promote Yonanas in the booth of Dole.

Dole has bar stools of carton in their booth

Rami Cohen of Guri Avocado

Katerina of Meteor Agricultural Nets

At the booth of Hashiloni Farm visitors learn how to grow sprouts themselves. A small box contain soil, a tub and seeds.

Moshe Gutman and Yana Gentosh of Seeds Technologies are the breeders of the new variety: the Black tomato.

Amos Betzer and Ami Adno from Viva Agriculture

Meredith Stevens promotes Joya apple. A new club variety that is looking for sportive teenagers who will buy the apple.

The team of Gautier Seeds

Philippe Raynaud from Harmonie

Prof. Dr. Ralf-Udo Ehlers of e-nema

Sébastien Lescot and Christophe Mariani from Nature D'Origine

Eric Guasch from Comimpex and also Vice President of Association France - Russia for the food industry.

Apples from Apple to go specially designed for the kinder garden.

Apples from Apple to go for Valentine.

"Franz Rahm from Apple to go beside him is the "Apple tree" specially designed for the kinder garden."

Benoit Janny from Janny MT

Julien Amar and Adnan Sabehat from BioXTEND

Andy Swersky from StePac

Rogier Alblas and Omer Kamp from Arava Export Growers

Gérard and Cecile from Groupe Chéritel

Yannick Schrifve from Klim'Top

Hans Scholten promotes Selena. It is an organic fire blight resistant pear. It has a long shelf life, you can keep it for three weeks after cooling. The pear is grwon in South of France near Cavaillon. At the moment the volume is 100 ton and they are willing to plant every year 40,000 new trees.

Pascal Corbel (Cardell Export), Roland Charrade (Cardell Export) and Vincent Lehallier (Juliet)

Catherine Verpoort and Gerald Lemaire from Lucas lemaire

Pierre Gélébart from Prince de Bretagne

Daniel Soares from Interfel with a redesigned booth, which is more focussed on children.

Christophe Artero and Yves Gidoin from FDA International.

Soules Sevda from BVL

The team of Lacour

The team of JMC Fruits

Nathalie Casal from Distrimex

Mr. Marteau from Val'Prim

Marc Bahbah from Honeycrunch

Adam Valmoro of Purfresh

Nancy Tucker from PMA

Ingrid Rivas from Mango Fino

Steven Pope from Ham Produce Company

Kelley Precythe Southern Produce Distributors

Bethany and Steven Ceccarelli from Farm Fresh Produce and two of Steven's cousins on the right.

Sarah Reiter from AgraQuest

Benjamin Singh and Sukhdev Singh form Food Freshly

Alex Guillen and Patrick Poulet from Escort Cold Chain promote a new USB datalogger, a RFID time temperature indicator and a shelflife indicator.

Brian Adams and Dave Thornton from Potatoes Canada

"John F. "Rick" Benson and Marty Fischer from Agrothermal Systems."

Eric Nieman from The New York Produce Show and Conference

Paul Catania from Catania Worldwide

Dave Nelson form Bard Valley Medjool Date Growers

Mathias Rodriguez and Lionel Mailhes from Caustier

Rita Biserni from Sorma Group

Peter de Boer from Cyklop designed the Kwik Lok achine that binds and tag in once.

Uffe Christiansen from EKKO

Carlo de Haas, Hector Bolivar and Tito Zaninovich from American Airlines

Ole Schack Petersen from Damco

Scott Morton from Peakfresh

Udo Wilfling and Rick Goddard Sinclair

Rune Särs from Formit

Another Fruit Logistica nominee,Tokita of Japan

... green bananas as decor

.. a work of art

.. closer look

Partner country of Fruit Logistica 2012

Mr. Mehmet Cem Ozen of SGS

Ms. Elif Akdag

the charming Mr. A. Armagan Oner

Metro Group´s Trading Manager in Spain, Mr. Laurent Renard(left)with Emmanuel Langdorf, head of Fruit and Vegetable Management

Basha, daughter of Mr. Mehmet Ulger (Director)

Akpa´s representatives

"Do you want some lunch?"

Mr. R. Bilgin Alan

Ismet Yurek, sales manager of Dilbaz with Serkan Topkara, production manager of Denizli

Cena´s interpreter for Fruit Logistica

One of Tekasya´s board member- Mr. Oksan Eryilmaz with their general manager, Mr. Turan Eryilmaz

Turan of Tekasya with some of their clients and the rest of the team at Fruit Logistica

hostesses of the Turkish Pavilion

Mr. Ruhi Akkuzu, coordinator and food engineer of Mersin Agro- Food Platform

Capt. Esbetah, logistics manager of El Gebaly

Moroccan Pavilion on their second day

Welcoming ad of Moroccan Pavilion

serving authentic Moroccan dishes at Fruit Logistica

"B´saha!"

Othaman of Overseas dept. for Benzit

Managing Director of Agroatlas Europa, Mr. Ricardo Menoyo

Beautiful usherettes of Moroccan Pavilion

.. serving Moroccan sweets

Different assortment of Moroccan sweets being served at the Moroccan Pavilion during Fruit Logistica

Mbarek Blileg of Logistics dept.

the front view Cypriot´s Pavilion with a total of 29 exhibitors

one of Russia´s biggest importer, Inter- Partner.. supplying fruits from Turkey, Egypt and the Netherlands

Ms. Anna Bocharova from the import dept.

Izzet Saribiyik from the Sales dept. with Olga Scherbina of Sales and Marketing for Arkas Line

Mr. Gunkut Ayvazoglu of Gravis Packaging

Export manager, Ms. Betul Yortanli with Mr. Roman Abbasov (right) and Mr. Mustafa Elgin (left)

Soylu´s export director, Mr. Gokhan Soylu

promoting Serbian fresh products at Fruit Logistica

Delassus´ stand at Fruit Logistica

Two charming women of Delassus, Ms. Nisrine Boutaybi for Transport and Logistics with Ms. Fatiha Charrat, Sales and Marketing of Delassus

Matysha´s representatives-- Ms. Maha and Ms. Hala

Chaib Larbi, Fresouer´s manager

from the Torpak´s team: Mr. Berhan Ongun, Ragib Ratib (managing director) and Olgun Amcaoglu

Ibrahim Kahramanoglu, managing director of Alnar (second from the left)with other exhibitors from Cyprus and Turkey

Mr. Ahmet Hasturk(right) with the other members of Akdeniz Citrus Exporters Association

the Turkish promoters and organizers as a country partner of Fruit Logistica

representative of Greek´s Consortium Elfrut

Zacki Apeada for ACN Naoussa- Greece

Georgios Katsianis for ASAPO of Greece

George Kallitsis, export manager with q.a manager, Manolis Anastasiadis for Protofanousi

the lovely Ms. Irini Mitrosilis

Mixalis(left) of Malakos S.A with Kostas of Blogouras Fruit, Greece

Alexandros Theocharis, commercial manager of Enipeas Valley

Executive director of Groexport Ltd., Mr.Frixos Tsakkistos

Mr. Antonis Anastasiou, acting general manager of Cyprus Marketing Board

other members of Cyrpus Potato marketing Board

Mr. Congeniality, George Frangistas of Gefra- Greece

George Kroussaniotakis(UK sales) of Zeus-- newly EPD certified

George Ioannides for Amagio

Christos Tsimon (managing director) with Andreas Catsellis of Cyprus Phassouri Plantations

Mr. Wesam A. Mahmoud,(assistant gen. mgr.), Hesham Morcos (IT & Costing Manager) and Sherif Mezar (Mktng mgr.) of Magrabi

Mr. Nithavrianakis Antonios, Gen. manager with Mr. Manos of Anatoli

Managing Director of Agro Farms, Mr. Ahmed Awad

Mr. Waleed Badr, Chairman of EastMed Shipping and Maritime Services

Ahmed Sarhan, CEO of Fruttella with Shahira Sarhan, export manager

Eng. Medhat El Kady, Vice Chairman of Kadmar Group

Ms.Sally Seif, export manager of Emad Basha

Ayman Khalil, Wadi Food´s Agricultural Manager

Dr. Anton with the chairman and managing director of Elwadi, Dr. El Moghazi Fahmi

Export coordinator of Dakahlia, Mr. Mohamed Mohsen

ACEAP, export manager, Mr. Wael Alaa

Amira Abd- Elmaksoud, marketing manager of El Kady

Mr. Walid Abou Youssif of Techno Farm with a colleague

Mina Elissa (left) and Esraa Assaf (right) of Logistics department

Mr.Tareq Abu Khaizaran, managing director of Agri- Pal,Palestine with a colleague

Ana Druga of Sales dept.

Mr. Amr (export manager) and Mr. Ashraf Helmy (gen. manager)

JK Ho of Tae-Bang Pated- Korea

easy to peel

Hugh Douglas (Product Development) with Karen Murphy of Agricoat NatureSeal

Eunice Mwongera, director of Hillside- Kenya

the men of El Shrouk: Ahmed Abd El Hady (gen. manager- left), Hisham Abd El Hady (middle) with their cousin

Mr. Bhatiya Mallawaarachchi, group director of C.R Exports

Simon A. Rakotondrahova, managing director of SCRIMAD, promoters of fresh products from Madagascar

Ms. Indira Malwatte and Rajeev Fernando (director) of JAGRO Ltd., Sri Lanka

Tesfalidet Hagos (gen. mgr.) with Fitsumbirhan Kidane (operations mgr.)

Ms. Paphavee Suthavivat, managing director of Swift- Thailand

Ms. Marina, representative for Sadruddin- Pakistan

Mr. M. Ndiasse Ngom of Senegalese Agency for Export Promotion

the men of CBI: Peter van Gilst (right), CBI Programme Manager with Piet Schotel (middle) and Gary Tomlins (left) both are CBI External experts

Tilen Pahor, TPG´s Commercial manager

Ghana´s meeting point

another meeting point of Ghana sponsored by the Sea Freight Pineapple Exporters of Ghana

Mr. Mbatezimana Damiem, chairman of Shekina Enterprises (Kigali-Rwanda)

Elga and Dalia of Latvia State Institute of Fruit Growing

APIMEX of Hungary, managing director, Ms. Anna Racsko

Laura PAP, sales consultant of Hortifruct Romania

Dr. Kalman Andras of Szentes- Hungary

Agrarmarketing Centrum Hungary (AMC) project managers: Katalin Szabados and Edina Varga

Ivana Cervenkova and Mirka Kertisova both from Vita-Zel

Jaroslaw Witkowski (gen. director) with daughter Dominika and Agrel´s business manager, Jozef Lesko

Branislav Raab, sales manager of Boni Fructi

Ms. Noemi and mr. Nandor Flak of BF Rekord Hungary

from Ceroz Group, wholesaler of fruit and vegetables originally from Czech Republic

Tural Mammadov(right) with their general director, Amiraslanov Ismikhan

Prodgamma´s packing and complex supply manager Sergey Soldatov with Anna Pavlova (coordinator)

from Somoplast, leader in plastic technology

the Riachies of Somoplast: Danielle, Wadih and Ralf (production line mgr)

Ms. Erika Zanotti of Eklettica Eventi(Zenatek)

Tantani Hichame, chief of import dept. with Hicham Naamane of Damco, Morocco

the Friend Fruits management team with their suppliers from around the world

Ms. Ekaterina Orekhova (import manager) with the rest of the team

Mr. Andrey of Fruit Depo- Russia

Mr. Dmitri of Nevskaya Co., Russia

Evgeny Maltsev, import manager of Akhmed Fruit- Russia

Hungarian exhibitiors meet potential clients

Everything is possible!!!

Tokita´s stand--- Tokita, candidate for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award

Ms. Yoyo for the Russian market

exotic products from Malaysia

Mr. Abdul Bahri, regional director of FAMA Pahang, Malaysia

Seven Xu (left), Fuhuida´s director of purchasing with Rusen Jian (client manager)

Mark of Chaoyang Plastics with a client, Giuseppe Allegro-- supply chain manager of Novapacktex, Italy

Dalian Everich´s president, Mr. David Lee

sales managers of Jining Pretty Jade- China, Martha and Mary

Ms. Kitty of Jining Haijiang Trading- China

Don Juneway of Jinxiang ChengQiang Trade

Perita Li, sales manager of Pizhou Goldenland Produce- China

Johnson Xia, general manager of Suzhou JianXin

Mr. Frank, Vice General Manager of Shaanxi Liye Trading

Greenstream´s representative, Ms. Sylvia

Emily Lee, export manager, Weifang Jiafu Import and Export

Jen Jia´s team (Taiwan): Hong Jie, Zhen Jia and Wanyi

Zhao Rui, chairman assistant of Jinan Fruit Research Institute

Liqiang Zheng (right), sales manager with a client

products of Seikou- Japan

Ryosuke Niki, chief of Sapparo office, Seikou Co., Ltd.

still from Seikou

Mr. Norio Goto (President and CEO) and Mr. Tomokazu of Pattruss- Japan with their innovated packaging products

Kwag Byowugho with Ms. Park of Nonghyup- Korea

Kaushal Khakhar, CEO of Kay Bee Exports- India

Mr. Amit Kalya of Kalya Exports

Yuyoung Han of Asia Seed´s Trading dept.

meeting at Seikou(Japan) stand

Ms. Kaye Zhang and Ms. Andrea of Role 2003 (China-Hungary)

Michael Cheng of Sanlong

the Imtiaz Enterprises team: Mr.Rizwan Shaikh (director) and Mr. Yasir Shaikh (director marketing)

director of marketing, Waheed Ahmed (left) with a colleague

the Pak Kinno Factory team: Faisal Mahmood (managing director),Gul Nawaz and Ahmad Sohail (chief executive)

Aroma´s managing partner, Mehboob Elahi

Evali of Huaguang, import department

Thosapol Wongshotisatit of Asia Exotic Corporation- Thailand

Gesu Priyadarshini (import and export executive) and Swanand Kulkarni (manager agri. business)

managing director, Say- Han Kim with Soo Lee of Quali Korea

Whimori-- premium brand of Korean products

Quali´s managing director, Say- Han Kim, preparing stir fry mushrooms to taste

Stevan Yang of Rayen Agricultural with his assistant

from Jinxiang Xinqiang Trading with their two managers: Dennis Lee and Paul Su

Vivian Zang of Jining Xinfayuan Fruit and Vegetable

Ms. Zhu Fengxi of C.Y Fruit- China

Gerry Li of Rizhao Xingda Foodstuffs Co., Ltd.(also in the Netherlands-- Rida Trade)

Mark Qiao (gen. mgr) and Betty Li of Qingdao New Alpha Enterprises

Mr. Nice Guy of Greenway, Peter Liu (sales rep.)

Feebi Huang and Sunny of Jining Fuyuan Fruits and Vegetables, China

XinYue´s general manager, Mr. Frank Fa

Ms. Arunne Chinnavong for Blue River- Thailand

sweet mangoes from Asia

Mr. Avin Wong and his team of Xiamen Bona Industry

Tired?!

Ms. Susana Pais (sales and marketing director) and Claudia Garcia (supply chain manager) of MozFoods- Vanduzi, Mozambique

Mr. Malik of Union Fruit with Sadruddin´s representative, Ms. Marina

Mr. Ike Tokita, president of Tokita- Japan

Tomatoberry also from Tokita- Japan, 3rd place during the FLIA 2008

still at Tokita´s stand

Cypriot´s meeting area at Fruit Logistica

Ms. Bushra Bataineh (hydrologist) of Agri Jordan

Chairman Khaled El- Bessoumy of Agro Alex with Mohamed Fayed, export manager

Hatem Hares, director of Go Global Logistics- Gouda (Egypt)

Mr. Fayed of FayedEx Horticulture Export- Egypt

Sonac´s export manager, Eng. Dalia El Gamal

Marketing and Sales Director of Agroland- Egypt

Mr. Robin Whitworth, product development manager, Daltex UK (Hana Fresh)

Munir S. Al- Khamaty (operation director- Russia) and Robin Whitworth (Hana Fresh- Daltex UK)

Ahmed Ragab (marketing specialist) and Khaled El- Banna (marketing) of Agreen- Egypt

Shereen Serry (export specialist) and Omar El Naggar (commercial & business development director) of PICO with one of their clients

Khaled Abd El Wahab, chairman of Abd Elwahab Sons

"waiting patiently to have their "potato snacks" at the Egyptian Pavilion"

Moroccan products exhibited

Who wants to try Moroccan cuisine?!

At the Moroccan Pavilion, you can step on it!!!

Ms. Julka Toskic, Delta Agrar´s head of Agro Service and Marketing with the rest of the team at the Fruit Logistica

the Cypriot´s Pavilion

Next...

Moroccan promoters during the FL

entertaining visitors at the Turkish Pavilion

Ms. Peris Muriuki, director of WAMU- Kenya with Mr. Charles of Fresco Produce Limited

sugarcane being exhibited at Ghana´s Pavilion

Matgorzata Madera (buyer)of Consorfrut Polska

Michael Stepein of Silvan Logistics- Poland with a colleague from Silvan- Germany

the Eurosad- Poland at Fruit Logistica

the women of Polfrut: Aleksandra, Ewa and Sylvia.. Polfrut´s trade specialists

Kinga Dzwonnik, key account manager of GG- Poland

Ms.Barbra and Joanna Leszko from the sales dept. of Grzybmar- Poland

the charming Ms. Larysa Stawinska of Eco Fruits- Poland

Agata Malkiewcz of Polberry- Poland

Dariusz Szymanski and Carolina of Nasz Sad- Poland

Ms. Anna Maroszek of Elfrut

key account specialist of Agro Alians, Ms. Agnieszka Saad

Do you think the woman standing is for real?!

Pattruss innovative products presented for FLIA 2012

another nominee for the FLIA 2012

Try now!

Product tasting while waiting for the FLIA

getting ready for the speech..