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Published: 6:00 PM April 30, 2021    Pieter van Egmond (right) will replace Tim Place (left) as managing director of Norfolk-based fruit grower Place UK - Credit: Newman Associates PR The new boss at one of the nation's leading fruit growers has vowed to continue the tradition of innovation at the 70-year-old Norfolk firm. Place UK, based at Tunstead near North Walsham, has appointed Pieter van Egmond as its new managing director. It follows the decision of his predecessor Tim Place to step back to concentrate on his role as chairman of parent company R & JM Place. Mr van Egmond, who j...

Mr Turner said Brexit was bigger factor on his workforce than Covid-19, even though the pandemic has made it more difficult for people to travel.  "If they come to the UK they will have to be tested, as they would have to in other European countries, and we can sort that, but the problem is that we are not sure if they are going to come," he said. He added that British workers were unlikely to fill the gap left by eastern Europeans, which had been proven by the enthusiastic but ineffective response to last year's Pick for Britain campaign, which aimed to galvanise a home-grown workforce a...