Consumer goods maker Unilever reported higher first-quarter underlying sales on Thursday, despite a later Easter holiday that pushed some food sales into the second quarter.
Russian food retailer Dixy Group said on Wednesday its sales rose 19 percent in March, year-on-year, after a 16.5-percent increase in the previous month.
OAO Magnit, one of the world’s most-profitable retailers, reported the first quarterly margin decline in a year as the Russian grocer used price cuts to gain shoppers in new regions including Moscow.
Associated British Foods Plc (ABF) said its Primark budget fashion chain will open its first stores in the US, driving growth at the unit that will help the company post similar annual earnings to 2013.
A relentless focus on everyday low prices helped Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) become the world’s largest retailer. The strategy hasn’t been working in Brazil.
The CEO of Lidl's parent company the Schwarz Group has revealed the German discount supermarket chain's expansion into the US market will not come until 2018.
The KUTERRA farm, the first land-based commercial Atlantic salmon farm in North America, marks Earth Day by bringing to market Canada's first Atlantic salmon raised on land.
Butter stocks on March 31 totaled 178,347000 lbs, down 30% from a year ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its April 22 Cold Storage report.
American retailer The Kroger Co. is promoting a video series on how the company sources sustainable seafood, to coincide with Earth Day in the United States.
Dutch retailer and wholesaler Sligro Food Group has reported a fall in sales growth during the first quarter of the fiscal year as growing price competition looks to have taken its tole.
Spanish supermarket chain DIA has announced that it is to offer hundreds of staff the chance to buy into a longterm share incentive plan over the next two years.
Russia's biggest food retailer Magnit may increase its dividend payout in the second half of the year, Chief Executive Officer Sergei Galitsky said on Tuesday.
Britain's biggest retailer Tesco has launched another round of price cuts on basic food products and reduced online shopping charges as it attempts to stem a loss of market share to discounters Aldi and Lidl.
More than 40 Japanese enterprises will visit the Mekong Delta to scope out the investment environment and cooperation with local businesses on April 20-24.
Despite an expected increase in the country's food imports, China will maintain self-sufficiency in its main food crops, including wheat and rice, in the coming decade, said an agricultural report released on Sunday.
Fair Trade USA, the third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in North America, has announced that it has certified one billion pounds of Fair Trade coffee since its founding in 1998.
