Singapore Wholesale Fruit Market Update – Week 12 The Singapore wholesale fruit market remained subdued in Week 12, with trading activity staying generally soft across most categories. Demand was slightly better on Monday and Tuesday ahead of the Chinese prayer month on Thursday, but momentum slowed afterwards as buyers remained cautious and focused mainly on essential replenishment. Market conditions were mixed during the week. Some categories continued to face tight supply

Quiet volumes, shifting origins, and early Qingming positioning. The Singapore wholesale market stayed lacklustre this week, and the tell is simple: less volume is moving out of wholesale . Buyers are still cautious. The market is not short of opinions, but it is short of urgency. That said, Week 11 was not a “nothing happened” week. The supply mix changed meaningfully across berries, citrus, and pome. And you can already see wholesalers starting to position for Qingming Fes

Quiet after CNY, but the supply story is getting clearer. If Week 8 felt like the market waking up slowly after Chinese New Year, Week 9 felt like it stayed in bed a bit longer . Trading remained quiet post-CNY . Many buyers were still operating in “top-up mode” rather than rebuilding inventories aggressively. That said, the quotations this week show something useful: supply and demand are starting to rebalance category by category , and the market is once again moving on spe

Executive Summary As we head into the final trading window before the February 17 Chinese New Year, the Singapore wholesale produce market has entered full clearance mode. Wholesalers are aggressively slashing prices to move remaining inventory, with activity highly concentrated on festive staples like mandarin oranges and cherries. The current market tone is entirely inventory-driven rather than demand-driven. Outside of these CNY lines, trading activity remains minimal and

The wholesale market in Singapore has entered the final critical stretch before the Chinese New Year (CNY). Week 6 kicked off sluggishly due to Prayer Day on Monday, creating a compressed trading window that forced importers into aggressive "clearance mode" by mid-week.

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Week 4 felt like the familiar pre-Lunar New Year setup: more fruit on the ground, but demand was still doing that slow shuffle in the corner, pretending it was “just browsing”.

The Singapore wholesale fruit market remains firmly in a defensive phase. WK03 offered little evidence of a demand-led recovery.

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