March 2020
As the South African avocado season is set to get underway, industry predictions are that the export volume will be at 18.5million 4kg cartons. This season’s fruit is expected to be smaller than usual and, in some areas, early season harvests are expected.
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February 2020
More and more companies consider sustainability as a fundamental part in a wide range of areas, including new-product development, reputation building, and overall corporate strategy but only around 30 percent of executives say their companies actively seek opportunities to invest in sustainability.
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January 2020
The Halls' commercial team is geographically located across the UK and the European continent, Africa and now China. This team has had many knowledgeable years in the avocado market.
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December 2019
On 10 June 2019 the first group-wide initiative launched for the Halls group. Lula Sandla, which means reaching out a hand or “open hands”, is an employee volunteerism programme, open to all employees and shareholders of the Halls group.
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November 2019
2018 was a challenging season for avocado growers and importers but according to Paul Devlin from Halls, it also played its part in setting up a very strong 2019 season.
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October 2019
The avocado harvest has come to an end at Hill Estate, currently the only commercial avocado producer in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), with very strong demand for its late-season fruit. Hill Estate is a grower-partner of Halls which markets their avocados.
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August 2019
When Tracey Davies took over as CEO of South Africa-based avocado specialist Halls in May 2018, she could not have foreseen that her first few months at the helm of the company would be quite so turbulent. For much of the past decade, the 129-year-old firm has enjoyed explosive growth, significantly increasing its production capacity and expanding its operational footprint in Europe and beyond.
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July 2019
Mandela Day 2019 presented Halls with another opportunity to positively impact the local communities surrounding the Halls Mataffin farm.
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July 2019
The annual Halls Matsafeni soccer tournament once again exceeded expectations this year as eight soccer teams battled it out for victory at the Mataffin Soccer Field this past weekend.
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July 2019
This year has seen a definite reduction in avocado volumes on the European market with lower volumes coming from both South Africa and Peru, two of Europe’s leading avocado supplying countries.
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May 2019
With South Africa’s avocado season now well underway, the current forecast for exports is up from the initial estimate.
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May 2019
At Halls’ long-established Mataffin packhouse outside Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, the fully integrated fresh produce company has completely revamped its avocado packing line by installing the very latest in optic sorting technology which now optimally grades five different Greenskin varietals as well as Hass avocados.
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May 2019
Supplier gives its annual HL Hall Gold Medal Award to two students from University of Mpumalanga for academic excellence in agriculture.
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April 2019
Avocado producer awards over £1,000 to Scout group for its good work with young people in eastern province of Mpumalanga
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February 2019
Chinese phytosanitary officials are expected to visit Kenya this April in order to conduct training and inspections of avocado packing facilities.
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January 2019
The Company celebrates the Accreditation of farms belonging to its Peruvian supplier, Luna Verde.
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December 2018
At this year’s annual Subtrop marketing symposium for the subtropical fruit industry, speakers made reference to the consistent growth in global demand for, in particular, avocados.
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November 2018
The courage, tenacity, integrity, compassion and entrepreneurship of the Lowveld’s Hall family hold many lessons for business and family dynamics.
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August 2018
Halls, one of the world's leading producers and marketers of avocados, has highlighted Brazil as a potentially plentiful supplier of the fruit.
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July 2018
The first Kakuzi Kenyan avocados arrived at Halls' French operation in Rungis wholesale market last week.
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