Published: Apr 09, 2014

Vietnam's benchmark VN Indexrose 0.18 percent at the break on Tuesday, lifted by gains in several blue chips thanks in part to dividend paymentplans.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Tuesday announced plans to open 50 more wholesale outlets in India and start online operations to sell to small shopkeepers, several months after it decided against opening its own retail stores there.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Massmart, South Africa's No.4 retailer by market value, plans to enter oil-rich Angola with two stores by 2015, a senior executive said, as the unit of Wal-Mart expands on a continent that is still largely an informal retail market.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Supermarket discount wars have long been the stuff of nightmares for grocery suppliers expected to slash their own prices in turn, but this time around in Britain many say they are sleeping just fine.

Published: Apr 09, 2014

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture is seeking to buy 119,718 tonnes of food quality wheat from the United States and Canada in a regular tender that will close late on Thursday.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Caterpillars and fungus, as well as drought, hurt Brazil's current soya crop and higher costs to control them will limit planting of new fields next season, the director of agricultural analysis firm Agroconsult said on Tuesday.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

USDA's March Hogs and Pigs report was bearish for hog prices. As expected, pigs per litter came in far below the year-earlier level, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown, University of Missouri.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Seafood export from India crossed 1 million tonne for the first time and the earnings crossed $4.5 billion during 2013-14, according to provisional estimates of the Marine Products Export Development Authority [MPEDA].

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Beef is the big winner in a free trade agreement struck between Australia and Japan after seven years of negotiations, according to international news reports.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

One of Italy's largest grocery chains, Esselunga, posted a sizable fall in net profits for the full 2013 fiscal year, despite strong sales.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Lidl Belgium has announced that sales director Boudewijn van den Brand (pictured) is to become its new CEO.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Turnover in Dutch supermarkets fell by 1.7% in the first quarter of 2014.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

While the ALDI supermarket chain may not be the biggest alcohol retailer in Australia, its customers are more likely than those of other liquor outlets to believe it offers the best value

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says “will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to invest and innovate”.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

The Danish business, agriculture and research industries are making efforts to tap the great potential in planting seaweed forests and farming mussels in the ocean areas surrounding Denmark's coastline.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Wine is a driving force for the Italian economy, figures released during the 48th Vinitaly, the annual exhibition dedicated to wine and spirits running on 6-9 April in the northern city of Verona, have shown.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

Indonesia will slash its 20 percent import tariff on wheat flour next month and opt instead for a quota system, an official of the trade ministry in Asia's second-largest wheat importer said.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

ICE Canadian canola futures were higher on Monday on light technical buying and worries about potential planting delays in the Prairies after a harsh winter, traders said.

Published: Apr 08, 2014

India's oilmeal exports dropped by a tenth to 4.33 million tonnes in 2013/14, falling for a second straight year as high prices of its soyameal curbed Southeast Asian demand for the animal feed, a leading trade body said on Monday.

Published: Apr 07, 2014

Switzerland's largest retailer, Migros, posted a net profit of 771 million francs for the recent financial year, on the back of record sales.