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FRESHCONEX Congress - Berlin, February 7-9

Bunzl boss to spotlight supply chain management in the fresh-cut sector

Bunzl Distribution president and chief executive Patrick Larmon is to explain the critical role of innovation in supply-chain management for the future development of the fresh-cut convenience business to international fresh-cut trade professionals in Berlin in February.

Mr Larmon is part of a top-level panel that will be discussing how to add more value in fresh-cut convenience at the inaugural FRESHCONEX Congress. The one-day conference event takes place on 6 February 2008 in Berlin, Germany and is focused entirely on the fresh cut-convenience sector. The congress is the curtain raiser to FRESHCONEX, Europe’s first trade exhibition dedicated to the fresh-cut sector at which companies from 14 countries will be presenting their products, equipment, services and innovations.

Register online at Freshconex website where tickets purchased in advance cost EUR 250 per person.

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More value in fresh-cut through innovation in product, packaging and logistics

Innovation in product, packaging and logistics is helping fresh-cut convenience suppliers, retailers and food service operators to create even more value in the sector. This is one of the key themes at the FRESHCONEX Congress which place on 6 February 2008 in Berlin Germany.

Jeff Brandenburg, US a fresh-cut convenience expert, will be setting the scene by looking at the challenges and identifying important new growth opportunities in the fresh-cut sector. He will then take part in a panel of industry experts that includes top-level representatives from Marks and Spencers, Bakkavör, FTNON, and Bunzl. They will be reporting from the frontline of the fresh-cut convenience business and sharing their own views on the opportunities for growth in Europe and the US.

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Top US market analyst to outline latest fresh-cut retail sales data at first event in Berlin

Perishables Group president Bruce Axtman is one of the speakers at next month’s fresh-cut conference event FRESHCONEX which takes place on 6 February 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Mr Axtman will be give the latest information on retail sales of fresh-cut products in the US which is bound to be an indicator of the opportunities in Europe.

This will be the first opportunity the European fresh-cut produce business has had to get such a detailed perspective of retail sales developments in the sector in the different parts of the US as well as in different product groups within the fresh-cut category.

The FRESHCONEX Congress kicks off FRESHCONEX, Europe’s first trade exhibition completely focused on the fresh-cut sector which takes place from 7-9 February 2008.

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Total Produce and Del Monte Fresh Produce join expert panel at first-ever fresh-cut conference

Denis Punter, executive chairman on Total Produce UK, and Emmanuel Lazopoulos , Senior Vice President, North America Sales and Product Management at Del Monte Fresh Produce, will be just two of five top-level panelists discussing issues in food-service supplier at the first FRESHCONEX Congress which takes place on 6 February 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Mr Punter and Mr Lazopoulos will be joined by three other industry experts to discuss the key drivers to develop better sales for fresh-cut in the food-service sector. Peter Backman, managing director of specialist information consultancy Horizons, will set the scene and assess some of the key challenges facing the growth in the food service sector in Europe and offer pointers on what suppliers will need to do to keep up.

The one-day congress is part of the new FRESHCONEX trade fair event focused exclusively on the fresh-cut sector and which brings together exhibitors from 14 different countries.