Published: Feb 20, 2014

The situation is gradually easing down on the European slaughter pig market.

Published: Feb 20, 2014

The European Commission and the Russian authorities have agreed to products containing pig meat exports to Russia to reopen.

Published: Feb 20, 2014

Safeway Inc, the second-largest U.S. mainstream grocery store operator, said on Wednesday it is in talks about a possible sale of the company.

Published: Feb 20, 2014

Dairy makers expect strong Asian demand will push milk prices in France to record levels in 2014 for a second year running, further squeezing their margins as price-warring retailers resist passing the higher costs on to consumers.

Published: Feb 20, 2014

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 42,908 tonnes of June-loading Canadian Western Red Spring wheat in an atypical tender that closed late Wednesday, a farm ministry official said.

Published: Feb 19, 2014

Globus has the best fruit and vegetable department of all the German hyper markets, reports the German website dtoday.de.

Published: Feb 19, 2014

The newly-merged SuperValu-Superquinn chain is close to toppling Tesco as the country's top grocery retailer, new figures show.

Published: Feb 19, 2014

The U.S. soybean market is on the lookout for cancellations from China as the harvest season in Brazil and Argentina fast approaches, making lower-priced supplies available to the world’s top importer of the oilseed.

Published: Feb 19, 2014

European supermarket chain ALDI continues to go from strength to strength in Australia

Published: Feb 19, 2014

Thailand's top retailer Central Group said on Tuesday it plans to invest at least 44 billion baht ($1.36 billion) in 2014, mainly to open new stores at home and expand in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

The German grocery market, long dominated by discounters such as Aldi ALDIEI.UL and Lidl, is undergoing a makeover as shoppers demand more upmarket products.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

ITM, the privately-owned French retail symbol which operates the Intermaché and Netto grocery chains, generated turnover (excluding petrol) of €22.3 billion during 2013.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

Media reports in Germany have stated that hypermarket chain Kaufland is preparing to expand its operations into the Serbian market.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

According to weekend reports, British hard discounter Poundland is expected to formally announce its intention to float on the London stock market this week.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

Singapore's Export Trading Commodities has secured a tender to supply 1,500 tonnes of chickpeas to Trading Corporation of Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer of $557.80 a tonne

Published: Feb 18, 2014

Analysts at Brazilian consultancy AgRural shaved 1.8 million tonnes off their estimate for Brazil's 2013-14 soyabean crop on Monday, saying drought in much of the country in recent weeks had reduced yields.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

India's soya futures ended up on Monday tracking firmness in global prices and are likely to extend the gains in the next trading session on poor availability of soyabeans in spot markets.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

Aquaculture will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030 as catches from wild capture fisheries level off and demand from an emerging global middle class, especially in China, substantially increases.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

Copa-Cogeca has urged Member States to reject new EU Commission plans which would upset the EU sugar market balance and call into question the new CAP reform agreement.

Published: Feb 18, 2014

Harvesting of the 2013 main season crops, mainly rice and maize, was completed by December.