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Increasing consumer interest in bitter flavours could help manufacturers regain momentum on sodium reduction initiatives, many of which are stalled due to the common perception that less salt equals less flavour, suggests market research from Mintel.
The IOC has officially launched its new campaign to promote olive oil on 2 July at a reception held in the famous restaurant Enju in the Japanese capital, in the heart of the Happo-en gardens. More than one hundred journalists and representatives of the diplomatic corps from 14 countries attended the press conference organised by…
The Organic Federation of Australia was saddened to see the result of the Supreme Court decision last Thursday, in the Steve Marsh/Baxter GM Contamination case in Western Australia. Steve and Susan are working through their options, and the Organic Federation of Australia is keen to support them in this. Steve’s strongest message at this point…
The 2015 Sydney Spring Fine Food Show Olive Oil Competition achieved a record 136 entries, with the competition saw judges tasting the finest olive oils, in addition to olives and olive products. The organisers said all nine Champion winners were unique producers in their respective classes. Champion Olives and Champion Olive Product winners were both…
The Australian olive industry has developed rapidly since the early 2000s and one of the biggest innovations has been the mechanisation of harvesting.Boundary Bend Victoria production manager, Ryan Norton, has spent the past 15 years helping to build Cobram Estate in to one of the nation’s largest olive oil producers.
An innovative introduced to the 2014 and 2015 AOA and Olives SA Table Olive Competitions was the inclusion in both the testing and blind tastings of 20 commercial green, black and Kalamata table olive products purchased from local supermarkets. Convenor of the National Table Olive Committee Peter McFarlane said that, while these products were not…
It’s a startling statistic. In just eight years since Gregg Kelley took over as CEO at California Olive Ranch (COR), the company’s revenues have rocketed from $2 million to an anticipated $80 million by the end of 2015. “When I started,” he told Forbes magazine recently, “we had one grocery store. Now we have well…
Olive Council (IOC) predicts olive oil production for this harvest season will be somewhere between the last one (the worst in nearly twenty years), and the one before that (the best of all time). If it seems the Madrid-based intergovernmental organisation is not exactly going out on a limb in its latest forecast, it reflects…
Registration has opened for the 2016 New York International Olive Oil Competition (NYIOOC), the fourth edition of the largest and most prestigious extra virgin olive oil competition in the world.Each year the annual contest draws some 700 entries from 25 countries to be evaluated over three days in New York City by an international panel…
Though no one would doubt his level of intellect, it might seem a bit of a stretch to imagine that an aerospace and aviation expert could become an award-winning extra virgin olive oil purveyor in just one year. Yet that’s exactly what Spain’s Alfonso Palazuelo did. As director of the Compañía Española de Técnica Aeronáutica,…