International Supermarket News will be giving £15,000 advertising to the winner of the Fresh-Cut award in a ceremony at the World Fruit and Vegetable Show on 27th October 2010.

Entry for the award will open on 1st September 2010. The competition will be judged by major fresh-cut supermarket buyers. The winner will be able to use £15,000 advertising in the International Supermarket News magazine and on the website.

Kettle Chips, the British producer of crisps,has been bought by Diamond Foods from the USA, for £400 million. Kettle Foods who have a factory in Norwich, expect the transaction to be complete in the summer. The chairman of Diamond Foods, Michael Mendes said that his company

With the increasing demand for organic foods, around 5,000 West African farmers have benefitted from a German FAO programme of $2.4 million, to help the farmers to meet the certification requirements. To become organic producers the farmers have to go through a conversion

ConstructionSkills, the industry’s Sector Skills Council in the UK, working together with Marks & Spencer, has developed an innovative new sustainability course designed to enhance the skills of those working on construction and refurbishment sites across the country.

Fast food chains in the UK are selling poultry meat that has been shipped, frozen, in containers, from countries thousands of miles away. The Sunday Telegraph has discovered that the fast food chains, including McDonald's, Subway and Kentucky Fried Chicken source some of their chicken from South America.