Business is booming at Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl, Thailand's biggest meat and animal feed producer, especially now it has won orders for chicken products from McDonald's Holding Co after a food scare in China.
India has signed memorandums of understanding(MoUs) and agreements in agriculture and allied sectors with 52 countries, in a bid to strengthen its reach in agriculture across the globe.
US FOB Gulf soyabean basis offers eased slightly from lofty levels late Friday, while wheat values were softer after futures rallied on heightened political tensions between Russia and the Ukraine, traders said.
Spot soyabean basis bids jumped at processors around the US Midwest again on Friday amid an effort to secure crushing supplies until the fall harvest begins, dealers said.
Market Basket Inc., the New England supermarket chain whose family owners are battling each other for control, has received interest from as many as dozen possible buyers, a representative for the company’s board said.
Supervalu Inc said it is investigating a potential data breach that could have affected some of its retail food stores, including some of its associated stand-alone liquor stores.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up emergency food deliveries to the West African region battling an Ebola outbreak and delivering supplies by truck, a WFP official said on Friday.
People from Britain who go to Cyprus in August are usually after sun, sea and sand but one Lincolnshire man, a trader in fruit and vegetables, is heading there this week for the potatoes.
The Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Mauro Borges, said that Brazil intends sign the free trade agreement with Colombia, Chile and Peru, originally scheduled for 2019, in 2016.
SPAR International and Max Hypermarkets today announced a new partnership agreement which will see over 30 SPAR Hypermarkets operational across India by 2019.
China will start selling fruit and vegetables directly to Russia, and Baorong company plans to set up a special logistics centre in Dongning on the border with Russia’s Far East to do it.
Woolworths Ltd, Australia’s largest retailer, said its Masters hardware venture with Lowe’s Cos. won’t make a profit until at least 2017 as annual losses at the group’s home improvement business widened by 24 per cent.
