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Olive oil consumption is on a decline in the Greece’s market in the last few years, as a reduced available income has lead consumers to cut spending even on basic food products, as Ana-Mpa reported quoting a survey by Infobank Hellastat.
Here’s how to shop for oil – from looking for good producers to knowing when a bottle might be damaged.
An olive oil promotion campaign in Japan and an app calculating the carbon cost of making olive oil are just two of the items on the International Olive Council’s table for next year. Advancement of a seal certifying conformity with the IOC standard in import markets and a self-monitoring tool to combat oil adulteration are…
The 60th annual Summer Fancy Foods Show is underway at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center in New York City, bringing together gourmet chefs, specialty food producers and buyers from around the world … Often overshadowed by their counterparts in Italy, Spain and the US, olive oil producers from countries like Chile and Uruguay took…
Let me please explain my personal opinion, as an expert and after talking to CEOs from different production countries, to share what I see happening in the olive oil market and its prices. Some figures indicate that prices should not be going up the market:
Prices of olive oil futures in the Spanish market have been trending upward, according to the Olive Oil Farm Gate Pricing Information System (POOLred). Finishing off a week in which nearly 3,900 MT were traded between mills and trading companies, all the major olive oil categories saw bumps in prices.
The International Olive Oil School completed the last scheduled course of its inaugural season last week with a session on olive oil quality assurance broadcast live from the UC Davis Olive Center in California. After a summer break, the school says it will introduce a new, expanded catalog of online courses for its fall 2014…
The first Lebanese National Laboratory for Olive Oil Testing was inaugurated Thursday in Kfarshima by the Agriculture Ministry, in line with a project funded by the Italian Embassy in Beirut.
Food businesses need to tap into neuroscience and understand how consumers make fast and unconscious decisions, if they are to improve their sales, says a marketing expert.
Italy retained its place as global olive oil leader in 2013 even as domestic and international sales dropped, (according to) sector association Assitol. Italian producers sold 94,329 tonnes of bottled olive oil and residues on the domestic market, down 3.5% over the previous year. Extra virgin olive oil accounted for 73.5% of total sales in…