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To Freedom Fruit it is clear that a multi-layered supply chain destroys the viability of fruit farmers. Especially in developing countries, many farmers and their workers are fighting a battle for survival. Maintaining the status quo leads to job losses and a steadily decreasing economic viability of many farms. Since 2002 Freedom Fruit has been actively pursuing ways of addressing the situation. Visit the Freedom Fruit website

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AgroCap invests in Innoverde

AgroCap Invest BV – holding company of Cool Fresh International BV – today announced that it has acquired a majority shareholding in Innoverde BV, the fresh produce company which was established in 2009 by Sjaak Oosthoek, Paul van der Gijp and Yuri van Gils.

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Philips and Cool Fresh International create a great CSR event

During the past 3 months the Dutch multinational undertook the ‘Cairo to Cape Town Roadshow’. Between May and July 2010 they travelled through the heart of Africa to demonstrate how new developments in solar powered and sustainable lighting can simply enhancing life with light.

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World Football Championships 2010

On Friday 25 June, Cool Fresh International placed the first SEC-C in South Africa.

SEC-C's (Sport, Education and Culture Container) are old sea cargo containers that have been converted into ‘low cost, sport, education and cultural community centres’. This provides community coaches in...

Business Social Compliance Initiative

For many years Cool Fresh International has been dedicated to the improvement of working conditions in our worldwide supply chain, and recently joined the Business Social Compliance Initiative.

The BSCI is a non-profit organisation with its headquarters in Brussels. It was launched more...

In memoriam - Ger Brouwer

On Saturday evening 29 May we received the tragic news that our beloved colleague and dearest friend Ger Brouwer had passed away.

Words can not describe our sense of loss.

Ger was more more than a colleague. He was our goalkeeper, our self-appointed critic, our...

Cool Fresh Video

Many of our clients are situated in countries far away, and we do not get to see them everyday.

To make sure that everybody can put a face to a name, we have produced a short video for your viewing pleasure. Please click here to...

Logicool Piketberg puts Stars in their Eyes!!

On Saturday 1 May - Workers' Day - Eric and Rickus Jooste and their Logicool team hosted a fantastic day for more than 120 children from the local community. In combination with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS), and the Stars in their Eyes Foundation the Logicool team created...

Hot - hotter - hottest!

On Sunday 18 April Hugo Vermeulen (CEO) and Nic Jooste (Marketing Manager) of Cool Fresh International flew from Mexico City to San Jose in Costa Rica.

Not quite knowing what to expect, the duo landed in San Jose to sweltering temperatures and swinging music. They ignored the inviting...

We make 'em big man!!

Following a chance meeting with the chairman of the Mexican Grape Growers Association, Cool Fresh International was invited to attend the Sonora Spring Grape Summit in Hermosillo, Mexico on 15 and 16 April 2010.

Hugo Vermeulen (CEO) and Nic Jooste (Marketing Manager) travelled to Mexico...

Legends in Langa

On Thursday 3 December the team of specially trained community coaches of the Stars in their Eyes Foundation (established in 2006 by Cool Fresh International) had the privilege of presenting a very special event to more than 250 disadvantaged children in the township Langa, close to Cape Town./...