Published: May 30, 2014

Corn and soyabean spot basis bids held mostly steady in quiet trade around the US Midwest on Wednesday, dealers said.

Published: May 30, 2014

Benchmark Tokyo rubber futures fell to a near two-week low and ended down 2.1 percent on Thursday, due to a stronger yen and a 2.9 percent rise in Japanese rubber inventories.

Published: May 30, 2014

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon said the world’s largest retailer may use 3-D printers for producing supplies and might even make an acquisition in the market.

Published: May 30, 2014

The latest edition of the Freshfel Consumption Monitor, published in April 2014, shows that the consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables in the 28 EU member states stood at 386.96 g/capita/day in 2012.

Published: May 30, 2014

China is so desperate for good beef that Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest will be taking sample parcels of steak in his luggage on his next trip.

Published: May 30, 2014

Costco Wholesale Corp., the largest US warehouse-club chain, posted fiscal third-quarter profits that missed analysts’ estimates even as comparable sales gained 6%.

Published: May 30, 2014

Russian food retailer Dixy Group said on Thursday its first-quarter net profit soared 73 percent, year-on-year, to 667 million roubles ($19.3 million)

Published: May 30, 2014

Russia said on Thursday it was suspending pig imports from the United States due to concern about outbreaks of the deadly Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv).

Published: May 30, 2014

Large Brazilian food companies have joined organizations active in climate programs to develop tools to better measure greenhouse gases emitted by themselves and their suppliers.

Published: May 29, 2014

Belgian international food retailer the Delhaize Group announced early this morning that Dirk Van den Berghe has decided to resign from his position as CEO of the company's operations in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Published: May 29, 2014

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, drew fresh criticism from shareholder-advisory firms over topics ranging from executive compensation to its handling of a foreign-bribery scandal.

Published: May 29, 2014

Wesfarmers has revealed its strategy for growth for the coming financial year at an investor briefing today. The strategy includes revelation of the plans for supermarket group Coles.

Published: May 29, 2014

India's top 10 food retailers are estimated to have accumulated losses worth $2.20 billion in the fiscal year ended March 2014, as they scaled up operations and refined their business models, according to a report by ratings agency Crisil.

Published: May 29, 2014

Australian shopping plaza operator Westfield Group launched a food-ordering pilot program on Wednesday, becoming the latest in the mall industry to test ways to stem a consumer drift toward e-commerce and away from brick-and-mortar stores.

Published: May 28, 2014

The Coalition government’s first Budget for 2014-15 maintained most funding for agriculture to ‘strengthen the sector and drive farm gate profitability.’

Published: May 28, 2014

British supermarket chain Morrisons is reportedly introducing new charges which will be levied on suppliers to cover the cost of approving own-label products.

Published: May 28, 2014

The Spanish discount supermarket Dia plans to end, or at least greatly reduce, its trading in France.

Published: May 28, 2014

Spar International has today reported global retail sales of €32.2 billion for the year ending 31 December, 2013 – an increase on 2012 of 4.1% on a constant currency basis.

Published: May 28, 2014

The difference between the wholesale (WSP) and retail prices of vegetables for 2013-14 has gone up beyond 49 per cent.

Published: May 28, 2014

Vietnam has earned some 899 million U. S. dollars from selling 2.061 million tons of rice to world market as of May 22 in 2014, with over 40 percent sold to China, said Vietnam Food Association (VFA) on Tuesday.