GERMANY     Reports at the end of December indicated that the food retailer Edeker were looking to buy Albi, one of the country’s leading fruit juice manufacturers. Albi’s distribution of fruit juice and own band discounted ranges cover the whole of the German food trade and ranks in seventh place in the country with about 93 million bottlings according to press sources in the local industry. Sources go on to say that Edeka already owns a juice producer in the Rostock area, with its own plantations and a fruit pressing plant in Poland and that their aim is to reduce dependence on external suppliers. There has been no comment from Albi at this stage.

Sources: Proplanta and Fresh Plaza