The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has secured funding for a project that will offer information and advice on energy efficiency to small to medium businesses (SMEs) in the food, beverage and grocery manufacturing sector.
Thailand's recent decision to unleash its huge rice inventory of about 17 million tons has negatively impacted many rice exporters, including those in Vietnam, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).
Associated British Foods forecast "good progress" in full year earnings per share after a strong finish to the year from its Primark discount fashion chain.
Syria is seeking 135,000 metric tons (148,812 tons) of white short grain rice, its General Foreign Trade Organisation (GFTO) said on Monday, after failing to buy in a tender that closed on August 25.
The Co-operative has begun supplying the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), enabling British servicemen and women to buy the retailer’s own-brand frozen food products at military bases around the world.
European retailers have gone back to bricks and mortar in the hope of turning their online food businesses profitable - racing to build pick-up points to capitalize on shoppers' increasing demand for "click and collect" grocery options.
GLG Life Tech Corporation a global leader in the agricultural and commercial development of high quality stevia products announces a new distribution agreement for Canada and the sale of its interest in its consumer products joint venture in China.
At World Water Week in Stockholm, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Coca-Cola Company announced support for new programs under their Water and Development Alliance (WADA).
Costco Wholesale Corporation reported net sales of $7.95 billion for the month of August, the four weeks ended September 1, 2013, an increase of seven percent from $7.44 billion during the similar period last year.
A dispute with Wal-Mart over Alaska salmon sparked a protest Wednesday by fishermen, and on Thursday a contingent of state and seafood marketing officials will argue in Arkansas to keep Alaska salmon in the retail giant’s supercenters.
General Mills, Inc., its foundation and supplier partner AgroMantaro have made a four-year joint commitment to provide $1.1 million to help smallholder artichoke farmers in Peru.
For two weeks this past March, an audit team from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was all over the People’s Republic of China’s poultry-processing system.
Chicago agricultural commodity futures were traded mixed Thursday, with corn and wheat prices down while soybeans prices going up on supportive export sales.