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By Christine Pirovolakis, Tassos Golemis can be found every evening tending to his olive grove in the fertile valley of the Taygetos mountain where the ancient Spartans once hunted and trained. For the first time, Golemis, together with his fellow olive-oil producers in the Mani peninsula, soft-pressed the region’s ripened olives of the Koroneiki variety […]

By Deven Black & Jill Rovitzy Black, La Boqueria in Spain is a bustling open-air marketplace where shoppers can find cheese, fish, meats and other delicacies. La Boqueria in Nyack feels like an open-air marketplace where shoppers can find cheese, fish, meats and other delicacies. “We have a roof and walls, but with this open […]

By Dave Friedlos, Olive oil producer Minerva is using software to extract information from its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system reports to boost business performance. The 100-year-old company translates information and data into spreadsheets and end user reports without the need for significant IT skills or resources. It also handles account reconciliation, condensing information such […]

Olive oil prices may drop in coming months as Spain, the world’s biggest producer, is likely to turn out one of its largest harvests, according to Sos Cuetara SA, the largest bottler. Spanish refineries will press 1.27 million tonnes of olive oil this year, Sos Cuetara chairman Jesus Salazar said yesterday. That output is 41 […]

By Michael McCarthy, In one of the most remarkable signs yet of the advance of global warming, Britain’s first olive grove has been planted in Devon. Temperatures have risen so far in recent years that it is now considered possible to grow the iconic fruit of the Mediterranean countries commercially in southern England.More…