"Team Avocado wins top Australian retail  Award"

Team Avocado has won the 2011 Woolworths Ltd, Supplier of the Year Award for produce.

The program is conducted through the collation of scores on each supplier's performance across various areas of Woolworths' business such as Buying and Marketing, Finance, Replenishment, Stores, eBusiness and more The awards were announced at a ceremony in Sydney on the 18th of November.

Team Avocado's Alistair Young said getting an export quality avocado from a tree in New Zealand to someone's table in Australia was "a precise logistical process involving the efforts hundreds of people".

"From paddock to plate, this award really acknowledges a mammoth team effort involving Team Avocado growers, pickers, packers, ripeners in Australia, the Woolworths Ltd Produce Teams in Australia, and our exporter Southern Produce Ltd said Mr Young.

Mr Young credited Woolworths Ltd Business manager Malcolm McLean for his "tireless pursuit of growth in the Avocado category and the perfect avocado for his customers."

Team Avocado began supplying avocados to Woolworths Ltd in 1994, and now in 2011 we're the produce supplier of the year."

Team Avocado also is very proud to be working with three very dedicated ripening and logistics companies in Australia. Fresh Produce Group in Sydney, Murray Brothers in Queensland and Valley Fresh in Melbourne. " These guys deliver 7 days a week, pre-ripened avocados to 6 Woolworths distribution centres in 4 states" They in conjunction with Southern Produce Ltd are a critical component of Team Avocados supplier success with Woolworths Ltd.

"Winning the award is an awesome achievement and I'm incredibly proud to be a part of it."

 

"TEAM AVOCADO IN THE NEWS "

PRESS RELEASE 

Teaching Japanese to eat avos

The consumption of avocados in Japan is growing, but the Japanese are still learning the best ways to eat the luxury fruit.

New Zealand exporter group AVANZA is hosting the president of Japan's largest avocado importer and other senior industry officials in the Bay of Plenty in a bid to strengthen their trade relationship.

VIDEO  LINK & FULL ARTICLE -  http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/16673-teaching-japanese-to-eat-avos.html 

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