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    Jeffrey Shaw: “Spain has to develop its image as a source of quality olive oil”

    The United States is one of the extra-community markets that offers greater opportunities to Spanish agri-food exports. Issues such as the impetus in recent years to import Spanish agri-food products in this country, or the importance of developing a brand image and adding value (among the many challenges that our companies face to compete in this demanding market), are addressed in this interview that ECA performs Jeffrey Shaw, Head of the Food Department of the Economic and Commercial Office, attached to the Spanish Embassy in New York.

    Good prospects of quality and price in the final stage of the olive campaign

    Olive harvest forecasts in the final stretch of the campaign are optimistic, with a value-for-money ratio that the Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos (COAG) calls "balanced and sustainable".

    World Olive Oil Exhibition 2017, endorsed as an international fair

    The World Olive Oil Exhibition (WOOE), International Meeting of Olive Oil to be held on 29th and 30th March in Ifema (Madrid) has just been recognized as an international fair by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. This official endorsement recognizes the merits of the WOOE, an event totally oriented to the international business that for six years is celebrated in Madrid and that faces the final straight of its most ambitious edition.
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    Expoliva has been consolidated as only fair with international recognition of Andalusia

    Expoliva 2017 is consolidated, in the year of its 20º anniversary, as the only international fair in Andalusia to have obtained for the eleventh year this recognition, as highlighted by the president of the Board of Administration of Fair Jaén (Ifeja), Angel Vera.

    Non-producing countries conducive to world consumption of olive oil exceeds 3 million tonnes

    Olive oil is a product whose global consumption is expanding, as evidenced with forecasts for the 2015/2016 campaign, aimed at more than 3 million tons, representing a growth of 6% with respect to the above, according to the International Olive Oil Council (IOOC). Increase reflected mainly in non-producing countries, which exceed 25% of the total compared with 11% representing 15 years ago. The International Fair of Olive Oil (wooe, its acronym in English), which will host IFEMA Madrid on 29th and 30th March 2017, will be the ideal place to promote this excellent news for the sector forum.

    Innovation is key to maintaining Spanish leadership in Olive Oil and Table Olives

    The Second International Forum on Olive Oil and Table Olive held on June 14 at the headquarters of the Cajasol Foundation in Seville, threw a very clear message: to remain world leaders in production and marketing, the national oil sector Olive and Table Olives should continue investing in innovation that also is key to know reach new markets and most importantly, differentiate to compete on quality and added value rather than price.

    Green gold that knows no boundaries

    At the gates of the XVIII Montoro Olive Fair, held from 11 to 14 May, there is no better example how culture gets behind the economic growth of an area, such as Córdoba (Spain). But the olive grove has ceased to be an emblem of the Mediterranean to spread widely around the world: 11 million hectares. Cropping systems located under irrigation hedgerow profitability extract fruit which then will be the most acclaimed by consumers oil.

    Deoleo aims at high oil production

    The markt company olive oil estimated at more than 1,400,000 tonnes of olive oil production for the 2015-2016 campaign. The total availability of olive oil, added stocks from the previous year and imports will be around 1,700,000 tons.

    Advanced fat olive oil for healthier sausages and chocolates

    Six Spanish companies, led by the Andalusian company Oil South-Coosur (ACESUR Group), working on the development of a new generation of advanced fats that allows to offer healthier foods by replacing highly saturated fats.

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    II International Forum on Olive Oil and Table Olive

    The Institute of Cajasol Studies has organized the Second International Forum on Olive Oil and Table Olives, which will be held on Tuesday, June 14, from 9:00 am., at the headquarters of the Cajasol Foundation, located in Plaza San Francisco, 1 (Sevilla). This initiative responds to the need for continued momentum of two highly dynamic sectors such as table olives, with a clear export character, and olive oil, a product in which Spain leads the ranking of world production and export.