Olive business
It’s a chilly Wednesday afternoon in regional Victoria, and I’m gliding over one of Australia’s best olive groves. The hum of the harvester surrounds me while, below my feet, some…
The 2015 Australian and New Zealand Olive Industry Directory (OID) celebrates 10 years in print for this “must have” industry information source. Publisher Ryan Media began compiling annual industry listings…
This month Kialla Pure Foods launched an exciting new feature across their website – introducing the Plate2Farm tracker. This tracker allows consumers to input the batch number of their purchased…
An olive oil producer in Tunisia has received a loan package of $26 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) aiming to increase olive oil production and develop exports.
I have been reporting over the last year and a half on the debate raging in Greece on how to implement the EU 432/2012 labeling regulation. Despite the many attempts…
Reports are generally signaling a much smaller harvest for most New Zealand growers this year, with some not even registering a harvestable crop for 2015. We’ll be covering the New…
A West Gippsland olive grove is supplying top Melbourne restaurants, like the Fat Duck, Vue De Monde and Cumulus Inc, with oil. The grove was planted in 1997, in the…
The member countries of the International Olive Council (IOC) have agreed on a draft text to replace the current 2005 agreement. The document will serve as a basis for negotiations…