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Search Results for: Agrexco
Occupation tourism: hiding the ugly truth
Vered Yeriho is a settlement Moshav (a type of cooperative agricultural community) situated on a hilltop just West of Jericho in the occupied Jordan Valley. Established in 1979, it is part of the Megilot Regional Council and has a small settler population of under 150 people. Like most other settlements in the Jordan Valley, it relies on agriculture for economic activity. When Corporate Watch visited in January, we found one Agrexco branded and… Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Watch Research Blogs
Tagged Dead Sea, Jordan Valley, Tourism, Vered Yeriho
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000: A police snooping tool to protect private profit
…e Watch, whether I got paid and what the information in our articles is used for. They wanted to know what the last article I’d written was and which companies I had written about. They asked about BDS campaigns against Agrexco, Ahava, G4S and SodaStream. They said, disapprovingly, that I had been arrested many times but had not often been convicted. They even told me I was involved in organising a demonstration against SodaStream on 3rd Ma… Continue reading
Posted in 'Security' and Surveillance
Cargoflora Ltd: Distributor for Agrexco, goes into administration
…superglue. Both companies were involved in the distribution of flowers to the supermarkets in anticipation of Valentine’s day. Cargoflora, a flower export/import business had previously had a business relationship with Carmel Agrexco. Agrexco was Israel’s main agricultural export company, exporting 70% of all fresh produce, including flowers, from Israel’s illegal settlements, until September 2011 when it was formally liquidated, partly due to pr… Continue reading
Cherriessa: From occupied land to Europe’s markets
…ssa Ltd’s web-site, the company was founded in 2009 to ‘address the developing and growth of ‘The Saada Family Modern Farm’. The Saada Farm was founded in 1989 and exported their produce through Carmel Agrexco. Cherriessa labels aimed for the European market obtained in the occupied Jordan Valley. The Saada Farm promotes itself as the largest grower of cherry-tomatoes in Israel with 20 hectares dedicated to growing the fru… Continue reading
Photo blog: ‘Organic’ Carmel Agrexco crops grown in the settlement of Kalia
…orting 70% of all fresh produce from Israel’s illegal settlements, until September 2011 when it was formally liquidated, partly due to pressure from the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Formerly state owned, Agrexco has been privately purchased by Bickel Flowers and, according to Who Profits?, has regained a significant proportion of its former market. A packing house bearing Agrexco signage, which was packaging goods for Agrexc… Continue reading
BDS Victory: EDOM’s Chairman promises to resign and divest shares
…packing house in the illegal settlement of Beit Ha’arava – Photo taken by Corporate Watch researchers February 2013 Packing house being used to package EDOM UK cherry tomatoes – the signs on the outside say Agrexco and Hadiklaim – photo taken by Corporate Watch 4th January 2013 Back in 2010 Corporate Watch urged Russo to divest his shares. We wrote: “To continue to maintain shares in EDOM is to ignore the suffering… Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Corporate Watch Research Blogs
Tagged Agrexco, Agriculture, Beit Ha'arava, British companies with relationships with Israeli companies, Chosen Agricultural Produce, divestment, EDOM, Edom UK, Glinwell, Hadiklaim, Israeli Companies, Jimmy Russo, Jordan Valley, Magnolia Holdings, Mislabelling, Russia, Tesco, Tomatoes, UK
EDOM: Still sourcing products from Tomer settlement
…e movement acts to pressure these supermarkets not to stock goods from EDOM or VGS. Settlement expansion in the Jordan Valley is happening at the expense of Palestinian communities. While companies like EDOM UK, Mehadrin, and Agrexco make a profit out of the cheap Palestinian workforce the Israeli military is carrying out a campaign to drive communities out of the majority of the Jordan Valley to make way for Israeli annexation. Last week, on Thu… Continue reading
A new BDS target in the Jordan Valley: Hishtil
…orts. Carmel-Agrexco was Israel’s main agricultural export company, exporting 70% of all fresh produce from Israel’s illegal settlements, until September 2011 when it was formally liquidated. Formerly state owned, Agrexco has been privately purchased by Bickel Flowers and, according to Who Profits?, has regained a significant proportion of its former market. However, Agrexco’s misfortunes have left space for other companies to m… Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Watch Research Blogs
Tagged Agrexco, Agriculture, Almog, Bickel Flowers, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Farming Injustice, Greece, Hishtil, Italy, Jordan Valley, Mehola, Russia, South Africa, Susya, Turkey
Mehadrin: New evidence of mislabelled settlement produce
…conduct of the company. In the last two years two significant changes affecting Israeli agricultural exports have occurred: the collapse and formal liquidation of Israel’s national fruit and vegetable exporter Carmel Agrexco, and the decision of the UK supermarket Co-op to stop dealing with Israeli companies that operate in illegal settlements, including Mehadrin. The Co-op also stopped trading with Agrexco, Arava Export Growers and Adaf… Continue reading
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