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Alot has been written about local foods in recent months. In the January edition of Time magazine, Joel Stein in his essay article took a controversial approach, it’s worth a read. Extreme Eating By Joel Stein I knew the farm-to-table movement was out of control when Chris Dodd mentioned it at a presidential campaign event […]

Definition: A person who eats food raised and harvested within a 100 mile radius. For more info visit http://www.locavores.com/

Thanks to Norman from Johnsons of Whixley for sending through this article from their company newsletter. Click on the image to read the article …..

“Job Slump Latest Omen of Recession” Pick up Saturday the 5th January Los Angeles Times and this would be the heading that would have greeted you. A news headline to welcome you to 2008, with an effect that could affect retailers around the world. We are being warned that 2008 could be a tougher year

The 2008 Independent garden centre trade Show and Conference in Chicago is already proving to be the event to be at this year. Keynote speakers include Diarmund Gavin the Irish Landscape designer talking on Landscaping on the Home front Diarmund is recognised as one of the most adventurous designers on the planet. On Thursday John

Coles is one of the two national supermarkets in Australia. Last week, their Christmas catalogue arrived at our door, this normally goes straight in the bin, but this one caught my eye. Instead of the boring list of products and prices, the brochure contained recipes with a checklist of what you needed to purchase. I

By John Stanley We all need hero’s in our life, for me I would include Nelson Mandela and Al Gore in my list, but we would all select different people to put on personal list. The real challenge is that in your local community are you on the list of your consumers and neighbours. I

Check this out! A new form of in-store marketing lets advertisers place their messages right between shoppers’ hands, on shopping cart handles that have been modified by Modstream. Messages are wirelessly streamed to a small screen in a hard plastic case that replaces the standard shopping cart handle. Advertisers and retailers log on to modstream.com

Heightened health awareness is prompting an overwhelming majority of Australians to purchase organic products. A new study released by The Nielsen Company, exclusively to Wholly Organic, revealed the level of consumer acceptance of organic options is now at its highest. Conducted twice-a-year among 26,486 internet users in 47 markets including 500 Australian consumers, the Nielsen

We all realise that Christmas is the busiest time of year for retailers, it was therefore interesting Phil Ruthven’s article in the latest edition of the Qantas Magazine that highlighted how the Australian consumer was the big spender. Australians spend more in December than in any other month of the year, but we do keep