Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Labelling, Olive business, Olive Oil News
2014 will be known by Italian olive oil producers as the ‘black year’ – a particularly bad one for a number of reasons – among them the fact that the weather has been great if you’re an olive fruit fly, and a bacterial blight that seemed to come from...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
The Council’s November 2014 newsletter released today reports that olive oil producers in Europe are expected to experience a significant 38-percent decrease, with Spain and Italy the worst hit, while Greece will experience a dramatic increase in production, and...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
With the support of Turkey’s Ministry of Industry, the olive oil producer Nar Gourmet is taking a new step in the olive oil sector with a project that will bring the factory to the fields. Local olives from Hatay, Mersin, Antalya, Manisa, Ayvalık could be processed...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
As the Turkish government gave its blessings to energy and construction companies to build new facilities anywhere across the country, felling trees and plundering nature to erect coal plants, mines or tourism complexes has increasingly become the norm in recent years...
Dec 11, 2014 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
One can never be too sure of anything in this old world, but an end may well be in sight to the legal troubles arising out of marketing pomace oil as pure olive oil by Kangadis Food, Inc. under their Capatriti brand, as well as those of the company’s principals,...
Dec 11, 2014 | EVOO, International News/Trends, NZ, Olive business, Olive Oil News
New Zealand’s largest olive oil producer will look to capitalise on Europe’s disastrous olive harvest. South European olive production has been hit by an olive fly and unfavourable weather which in some instances have seen tonnages plunge by more than 50%....
