Olives101.com

By Davide Berretta, Over the past five years, Italy’s biggest olive-oil brands have fallen steadily into Spanish hands. SOS Cuétara SA’s July purchase of Bertolli, one of the world’s best-known olive-oil labels, gave the Spanish food company control of half the Italian market and made it the world’s undisputed leader in olive-oil sales. The Spanish […]

SOS Cuetara SA is studying the acquisition of ‘many’ olive oil companies and has admitted its interest in international food manufacturer Unilever Plc.’s Italian olive oil brand Bertolli, according to SOS chairman Jesus Salazar. Speaking to Thomson Financial News on the sidelines of a small-midcaps forum, Salazar said that it is studying ‘many companies’, and […]

Le 3 Avril 2008, Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI a procédé à l’inauguration d’une plantation mécanisée d’oliviers (orientée par GPS) de variétés espagnoles (Arbequina et Arbossana) et grecques (Koroneiki) appartenant à la Société AGRO HEALTH et située dans la région marocaine de Beni-Mellal. Cette plantation a été conçue et conduite techniquement par la Société […]

SOS Cuetara SA said it is targeting a record 1.6 bln tonnes in olive oil production in 2007-2008, reiterating comments made by chairman Jesus Salazar in a recent interview with Thomson Financial News. In a presentation, SOS Cuetara said it expects olive oil prices to remain stable and competitive in the 2007-2008 season, thanks to […]

Healthier margins from olive oil have driven a rise in nine-month profits at Spanish food firm SOS Cuetara. Net income rose 10.8% to EUR13.5m (US$19.7m) in the nine months to the end of September. Turnover, however, dipped 3.2% to EUR1.02bn. In June, a company insider told just-food that SOS Cuetara was searching for a new […]