Agria Corporation today announced that it has entered an agreement to establish the China National (Yangling) Plant Variety Rights Trading Center (the “Center”).
The independent arbitrator in the dispute between Kraft Foods and Starbucks Coffee Company ruled today that Starbucks must pay more than $2.7 billion in total cash compensation for its unilateral termination of the companies' coffee contract.
Investigators from Ireland's office of the Data Protection Commissioner will visit a firm in county Clare today to find out how the credit card details of over 62,500 Supervalu customers were compromised.
German retailer Rewe will invest €1.5 billion to revamp its German stores and expand its internet offering, Chief Executive Alain Caparros told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
In the last two weeks, all 8,500 payment terminals in Migros stores have been converted so that they can handle "contactless payments", according to a statement released yesterday.
Marks and Spencer has confirmed today that it plans to build a "leadership position" in India, as part of its strategy to become a leading international and multi-channel retailer.
Russia's biggest food retailer Magnit said on Monday its sales rose by 26.7 percent in October, year-on-year, to 48.6 billion roubles ($1.49 billion) after a rise of 28 percent in the previous month, according to Reuters.
Indonesia badly wants to build its sales of value-added product in China, moving away from a trade that’s dominated by shipments of whole-round product.
Cuba rolled out a master plan this week to reform food production and sales that definitively ends the state's monopoly on distribution and replaces many rules that hamper farmers and consumers.
Food commodity markets are becoming more balanced and less price volatile than in recent years thanks to improved supplies and a recovery in global inventories of cereals.
Morrisons, the UK's fourth-largest supermarket chain, has reported a 2.4% fall in like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, in the quarter to 3 November 2013.
