Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest supermarket chain, has revealed that one of its employees has been arrested in connection with a major theft of data from its staff payroll system.
Russian analytical firm SovEcon has raised its 2013/14 grain export forecast thanks to a weaker local currency and concern over Ukraine, it said on Monday.
Ukrainian farms have sown 693,000 hectares of spring grain as of March 17, or 24 percent of the expected sowing area, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
British grocer J Sainsbury's nine-year run of quarterly sales growth came to an end on Tuesday, underlining the pressure on the industry as a battle over prices intensifies in a fragile economic recovery.
Sidestepping Beijing's import curbs, industry sources estimate hundreds of thousands of tonnes of beef from countries such as Brazil and India is being smuggled into China via neighbouring Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Tnuva, Israel's biggest food maker, is expected to file a prospectus with the Israel Securities Authority in the coming days for an initial public offering, a market source in Tel Aviv said on Tuesday.
Rising industry costs and inflation have led to market growth of 6.9 per cent between 2012 and 2013, according to Meat and Meat Products 2014, a market report from market intelligence group Key Note.
In a major organizational rejig, Tesco, the world's third largest retailer, has brought company veteran Glen Attewell from Seoul to head its captive global IT operations in Bangalore.
Discounters continue to surpass all other U.K. supermarkets in terms of sales growth and share of the market, according to data released recently by Kantar Worldpanel.
Western European wheat prices were steady on Friday as the market consolidated below a near one-year high, with traders awaiting next developments in a standoff between Ukraine and Russia.
A soyabean ship has run aground in Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario, slowing exports from one of the world's top food suppliers just ahead of high Southern Hemisphere shipping season.
Chinese logistics company Shanghai Haibo and Shanghai-based Qiaolab consulting firm have signed an agreement to create "the first Chinese hub in Italy," aimed at improving exports of Italian agri-food products to China
