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Готовьте вместе с Американскими фруктами и сайтом Кулинар!

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В ходе Фестиваля американских фруктов проводится конкурс “Фестиваль американских фруктов. Питайся правильно!” на сайте http://www.koolinar.ru

Главные призы – iPad. Чтобы выиграть главный приз – надо добавить рецептсюда, с использованием фруктов – груш, яблок или винограда. Автоматически – рецепт участвует в фото-конкурсе – “Фестиваль американских фруктов!” По итогам конкурса экспертное жюри выберет самое красивое фото блюда и вручит специальный приз iPod touch!

Сбор работ на конкурс проводится с 26 ноября по 26 декабря 2012 года!

Итоги будут подведены 27.12.2012 г.

Более подробную информацию смотрите на сайте http://www.koolinar.ru

Приглашаем на Фестиваль американских фруктов!

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11 декабря ассоциации американских фруктов при поддержке посольства США представляют презентацию свежих фруктов Нового Света: груши, яблоки и легендарный калифорнийский виноград.

Свое участие на мероприятии подтвердила директор Сельскохозяйственного торгового представительства при посольстве США Дианна Айала (Deanna Ayala).

В программе пресс-коктейля: дегустация фруктов, сыра и вина, мастер-класс по приготовлению блюд, разработанных специально для Фестиваля. Оригинальные и полезные рецепты представит тандем шеф-повара и специалиста диетолога – формат достаточно новый для российской публики.

Фрукты – гордость США. Груша – официальный символ штата Орегон, День яблока в конце февраля ежегодно празднуется по всей стране, а калифорнийский виноград по праву считается «новым золотом» Америки.

На мастер-классе шеф-повар Анна Семенова, руководитель гастрономического проекта «Школа Хорошего Вкуса», продемонстрирует секреты приготовления необычных блюд из груш, пикантные сочетания с сыром и вином, и другие эффектные, полезные и простые в приготовлении десерты и салаты – украшение любого праздника. В процессе их создания диетолог и нутрициолог Сергей Сергеев даст свои профессиональные комментарии и советы.

Кулинарные шедевры – это не только необычный рецепт, но и качество используемых  ингридиентов. Чтобы добиться в домашних условиях настоящего вкуса рождественского American Pie или знаменитого салата «Вальдорф», классики американской кухни, возьмите для их приготовления оригинальные фрукты тихоокеанского побережья.

Также Вы узнаете интересные факты о традиционных и новых сортах яблок и груш: почему американские фрукты аккуратные и красивые, как с картинки, а яблоки США не менее популярны, чем их электронные тезки и соотечественники «Apple», каковы стандарты отбора и калибровки, как определить спелость фрукта (говорят, что хорошую зрелую грушу не едят, а выпивают), зачем маркируются коробки и почему виноград – это дар богов.

Мы ждем Вас на нашем мероприятии.

Будет интересно и вкусно!

Retail growth slumps

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Russian retail sales growth unexpectedly slumped in October after unemployment increased for the first time since January and slower-than-estimated gains in wages and incomes curbed consumer purchasing power.

Receipts at merchants rose 3.8 per cent from a year earlier, the slowest pace since February 2010, after a 4.4 per cent increase in September, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.

The economic figures “can be linked to slower growth in incomes, wages and a relatively high level of the inflation rate,” Alexander Morozov, chief economist for Russia at HSBC Holdings Plc in Moscow.

Source: www.freshplaza.com

European growers of apples and pears are worried by competition with Poland

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Almost all European gardeners admit that the biggest competition threat for them comes from Poland, which has an important advantage: low prices for apples and pears. Besides, the harvest of this year exceeds all the previous indices, as well as production volumes in other countries.

The Polish growers do not forget about the quality either, improving it annually. However, the European manufacturers do not despair, as serious competition is a normal state of a healthy market. For example, apples and pears from Holland are very popular in the inner market of the country, as well as in Belgium and in Germany. But the Eastern market is often closed for them because they find it difficult to implement the expensive production among the people with lower income then Europeans’.

Source: www.fruitnews.ru

The owner of retail chain Sedmoy Continent was allowed to take complete control over the company

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The Moscow Arbitration Court invalidated the prohibition of the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS) issued to company Pakva in respect of the purchase of securities of the trading network “The Seventh Continent”. It was reported by RAPSI referring to a representative of the court.

In November 2011, the Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the petition of Pakva company to acquire 100 percent of shares of “The Seventh Continent”. The largest owner of securities of the trading network is Alexander Zanadvorov, and according to the media, he also controls the Cyprus company Pakva.

In spring of 2012, the Cyprus entities belonging to Zanadvorov consolidated the 96.25 percent of “The Seventh Continent” shares. Meanwhile, the majority of the shares were sold to Pakva by the companies controlled by the businessman. In May Pakva filed an offer for a compulsory redemption of the remaining 3.75 per cent of the securities from minority shareholders at $100 per share.

Soon after that the FFMS prohibited to Pakva to buy 3.75 percent of shares of “The Seventh Continent”. In response to that, the structures of Zanadvorov went to the arbitration court while continuing to buy up the securities of the trading network. In August, it was reported that the businessman had taken control of all 100% of the shares of “The Seventh Continent”.

It was announced on November the 15th that the Association for the Protection of Investor Rights was going to go to court because it considered the compulsory acquisition of securities from minority shareholders illegal.

“The Seventh Continent” is the eighth-largest grocery retailer in Russia, taking up about 0.6 percent of the market. The company owns 146 retail outlets, including the same-called stores and 11 hypermarkets “Nash”. In 2011, the revenue of distribution network was 50.9 billion rubles.

Source: www.fruitnews.ru

The biggest Russian dry-cargo port will open in Kuban

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The decision to build a new dry-cargo facility was discussed on Monday, November the 19th, by the Territory Governor Alexander Tkachev and Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Victor Olersky.

– This project has great political and socio-economic importance for the region’s economy and for the whole country. From our part, we will do everything for this project to be implemented. Of course, the construction will require tens of billions of rubles and infrastructure development, but we hope that the investor and the management company will work hard for the interests of the Kuban. It will create new jobs and increase the tax base, said the Kuban’ official.

The future dry-cargo port of Taman will be the largest project of its kind in Russia. The planned turnover will be about 100 million tons of cargo per year.
– This will be the port of the new philosophy, deep, and it will allow our shippers to literally open up new markets. And that will make our economy more competitive, – said Mr. Olersky.

 

Source: www.fruitnews.ru

Meeting of Rosselkhoznadzor officials and Russian retailers

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November 12, 2012: Rosselkhoznadzor organized a regular meeting dedicated to the “safety of plant products supplied to retail chains” with the representatives of organizations engaged in the sale of plant products.

The meeting was dedicated to discussing ways to improve the safety of plant products supplied to retailers. Among the participants were senior officials of Rosselkhoznadzor, representatives of X5 Retail Group LLC, Real Hypermarket LLC, Metro Cash & Carry LLC, Lenta, Okay, Belaya Dacha Trading JSC, National Agricultural Union.

The representatives of trade organizations acknowledged the need to develop a unified form to accompany the incoming plant products as it moves through Russia and the Customs Union. The meeting agreed on the need of development and short-term harmonization of such document.
The meeting resulted in a protocol on “Security of plant products supplied to retailers”

Source: www.fruitnews.ru

Retail chain “Vernij”

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In 2013 retail chain “Vernij” (which means “Loyal” in Russian) will launch the option program – top-managers will be offered up to 5% of the share capital of the company as a reward for good work. This program may be the most generous on the Russian food retail market – usually that number is up to 2% of the share capital.

Andrei Rogachev, founder of retail chains “Pyaterochka” and “Karusel”, and former managers of X5 Retail Group, the former CEO of “Pyaterochka” Oleg Vysotsky and the former head of the Ural branch of X5 Alexei Vaganov now are investing in the development of retail chain “Vernij”.

According to the development plans, there will be up to 400 stores in Moscow and St. Petersburg in three years. Now there are more than 10 stores and another 25 stores will be opened by the end of the year.

Source: www.retailer.ru

Russian largest fruit importer declared bankrupt in London

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According to the Russian newspaper Commersant, the founder of Russia’s largest fruit importer JFC Vladimir Kekhman was declared bankrupt by the London Court. At the moment, neither Russian nor Western creditors can not reclaim his foreign assets. This is a precedent: it is the first time for a Russian businessman who owes $ 1.3 billion to banks, to seek protection from banks in foreign courts. Lawyers believe that Mr. Kekhman decided to avoid the fate of Shalva Chigirinsky, whose creditors managed to seize all the personal property of the developer: real estate in London and Monaco, and even his watch.

The information that Vladimir Kekhman was declared bankrupt as an individual can be found at the UK Register of personal bankruptcy. It also states that “the individual details of the bankruptcy case are taken from the order of the High Court of Justice, which made this decision on Oct. 5, 2012.”

Vladimir Kekhman declined to give any comment yesterday. Banks creditors of JFC group, of which Mr. Kekhman is the founder and owner of the largest share, got to know about the bankruptcy from “Commersant”, and could not yet give a comment on the information. As previously reported, in March of the current year, the managing company of JFC had been declared bankrupt. The total debt of Russian legal entities entering the JFC, including fines and penalties make 38.5 billion rubles ($ 1.3 billion) up to the present day. Major creditors of the group are Sberbank, Bank of Moscow, PSB and “Uralsib” banks. Totally, in the courts of the Russian jurisdiction there are more than a dozen lawsuits against JFC and its subsidiaries to recover overdue debts.
JFC is one of the largest Russian importers of fruit, including bananas brand Bonanza!. According to its own data, it takes up to 40% of the Russian market of bananas. The main shareholder of JFC Group with a share of 80.09% is a Cyprus company Huntleigh Investments Ltd, owned by the head of the Mikhailovsky Theatre Vladimir Kekhman.

Total revenue of CJSC “JFC Group” in the first half of 2011 was 5.6 billion rubles ($ 200 million, 11% more over the same period in 2010), the net profit was equal to 45.5 million rubles ($ 1.6 million, 85% by 2010).

Source: www.fruitnews.ru

Фестиваль американских фруктов. Правильное питание! Конкурс

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Фестиваль американских фруктовВ связи с открытием Фестиваля американских фруктов, проводится конкурс в группе в контакте Фестиваль американских фруктов. Правильное питание!
Правила конкурса 
Правилаочень просты – надо просто вступить в нашу группу, сделать фотографию на тему – Мой фруктовый день (на фотографии обязательно должны быть яблоки, груши или виноград), выложить свою фотографию в наш альбом “Конкурс Мой фруктовый день” и все! Здесь можно увидеть, какие работы уже выложили.

Все участники в любом случае получают небольшой гарантированный сувенир от Американских фруктов – это может быть кепка, футболка, грушка-игрушка или грушерезка.

Победитель определяется голосованием в группе, побеждает тот, кто наберет всего отметок Мне нравится, и получает симпатичный iPod shuffle, с которым очень удобно заниматься спортом.
Конкурс продлится до 10 декабря. 9 декабря подведение итогов!

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