China’s first green channel for agricultural products, connecting China’s Bakty port and Kazakhstan’s Baktu port, opened on December 23, and is expected to simplify agriculture commodities’ clearance procedures.
Starting January first this year, a total of 606 products that Chile exports to South Korea and Japan no longer have to pay tariffs due to the free trade agreements signed with these Asian countries.
Turkish fruit exports rose 16 percent from 2012 to 2013, reaching $708.5 million, according to the Turkey Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association (TYMSIB).
Supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury’s will kick off the retail sector’s festive trading updates this week amid concerns of a tough Christmas for the “big four” grocery chains.
Health-conscious customers hoping to start a new eating regime in the post-Christmas period will be have the choice of a new "Tesco Healthy Living" own brand range.
One of Europe's leading privately owned food processors, ABP Food Group has expanded its operations in Poland with a deal to buy a second production facility in Klosowice, in the west of the country.
Almost half of customers at chicken fast food outlet Nando’s in Australia are from Generation Y (Gen Y), compared with only around 3 in 10 at McDonald’s, according to findings from market research organisation Roy Moran Research.
War-torn Syria's state wheat import deals surged to 2.4 million tonnes in 2013 from 550,000 a year earlier, the country's General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob) said on Monday.
Net export sales of U.S. corn in the week ended Dec. 26 tumbled 90% from a week earlier, 80% from the prior four-week average and fell well short of trade expectations.
Carrefour has announced its acquisition of Poland's Rast supermarket chain, which operates 10 stores in the north eastern store of Olsztyn, for an undisclosed fee.
UK supermarket operator Tesco today announced a sale and leaseback agreement for four of its stores in South Korea in a deal worth more than £355 million.
Zimbabwe plans to import 150,000 tonnes of maize from its neighbour South Africa as it faces its worst food shortages in four years due to drought and a poor harvest last year, state media reported on Friday.
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail is converting some of its big hypermarkets into wholesale cash-and-carry stores, in an apparent sign of modern retail's inability to effectively take on neighbourhood stores in India.
