Spanish retailer Eroski has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of salt reduction in the diet, with Spanish athlete Peio Ruiz Cabestany featuring as spokesman for the initiative.
Thailand and Montenegro have agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture, food industry, fishery, tourism, trade and investment, Thai News Agency reported Saturday.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 113,572 tonnes of food wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that closed on
Thursday, a ministry official said.
A year since India reduced foreign investment barriers to its retail sector to spur flagging economic growth, confusing rules and political uncertainty are keeping overseas supermarket giants away, analysts say.
Retail sales in the Netherlands increased modestly in July, recovering from the previous month's contraction, data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed Thursday.
The value of the UK's food and grocery market is to soar by a fifth to a record £206bn by 2018, with online sales doubling and big increases in business for convenience stores and discounters, according to new research from the IGD.
Chinese alcohol producers are eyeing foreign markets as domestic sales growth has shrunk amid China's frugality campaign, according to sources with a Chinese alcoholic beverages expo.
Kroger Co (KR.N), the biggest U.S. supermarket operator, on Thursday reported a 14 percent jump in second-quarter profit as it capped costs and drove sales higher with programs for loyal shoppers, sending shares up almost 2 percent.
Portugal's biggest retailer Sonae plans to open five food hypermarkets in Angola in partnership with Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the country's president, with the first scheduled for 2015, a company board member said on Thursday.
Brazilian retail sales jumped more than expected in July as lower food prices offered relief for tight family budgets, bolstering hopes that the economy can avoid a quarterly drop.
Shoppers Drug Mart Corp (SC.TO) shareholders on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of Loblaw Co Ltd's (L.TO) C$12.4 billion ($12.02 billion) bid to buy Canada's largest pharmacy chain.
Russia's third-largest food retailer Dixy Group posted on Thursday a 24.1 percent year-on-year increase in August sales after a 21.1 percent increase in the previous month.
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being, Rospotrebnadzor, has lifted a temporary ban on imports of dairy products from New Zealand-based Fonterra.
Carrefour is to offer wine shoppers a 'new plugged-in shopping experience' when it takes over a square in front of La Défense with a temporary wine fair.
The New Zealand government on Wednesday announced it was organizing a high-level campaign to help New Zealand exporters who were adversely affected by the Fonterra botulism scare last month, particularly in the China market.