Mexican bread giant Bimbo suspends sales in Russia

17-Mar-2022 - Mexican baked goods giant Bimbo has halted its sales and investments in Russia because of the Ukraine war. "We will continue to monitor and evaluate the situation depending on how circumstances develop," the company said Monday. It said the decision was made based on the international situation ...

USA suspends import of avocados after threat call

15-Feb-2022 - The world's largest avocado producer, Mexico, says it will not be allowed to ship avocados to the United States until further notice. According to an announcement by the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, the northern neighboring country stopped imports of the green fruit after a U.S. animal and ...

Mexico's tequila exports reach historic high in 2021

11-Jan-2022 - Mexico exported more tequila last year than ever before. A good 339 million liters of the agave liquor went abroad in 2021, as Mexico's tequila regulatory authority announced on Friday. Since the beginning of the corresponding statistics in 1995, this is the largest export volume in one year. The ...

Superfood Company LiveKuna Secures Series A Funding To Expand North American Footprint And Fuel Product Innovation

Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company, led the investment round and will partner with LiveKuna on joint product launches with traceable ingredients

10-Dec-2021 - LiveKuna, a vertically integrated superfood company established in Ecuador, today announced a Series A round of funding led by Grupo Bimbo with participation from SOSV and AMADEO. Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company and owner of over 100 brands including Sara Lee and Thomas' English ...

The Vegetarian Butcher launches in Latin America and China

Partnership with Burger King®

04-Jan-2021 - Unilever brand The Vegetarian Butcher announces today that it has expanded its successful partnership with the Burger King® brand to launch the Plant-Based WHOPPER®, powered by The Vegetarian Butcher, in Latin America, the Caribbean and China. In China, the Plant-Based WHOPPER® has today been ...

Latin America's critical food markets fuel virus spread

The centers of infection here are always around the popular markets

29-Jun-2020 - Mexico City's main wholesale market detects dozens of coronavirus cases every week. A covered food market in Venezuela was the source of one of the largest outbreaks in the country. And every single merchant in a vast market in Peru has tested positive for the virus. As the coronavirus pandemic ...

Mexico's Swine Profitability Issue

Tackled by EW Nutrition with Market-Proven Antibiotic Reduction Program during AMVEC

16-Jul-2019 - Between 23-26 July, in Guadalajara, EW Nutrition's Mexico team will be taking part in the country's top event for swine specialists. Every year, AMVEC brings together more than 1,000 of the region's best and most knowledgeable zootechnicians, veterinarians, researchers and industry workers. The ...

Mexico's tequila exporters warily eye US tariffs deadline

07-Jun-2019 - After decades of building a domestic market for Tequila Cascahuin, Salvador Rosales readied the family business for a plunge into the U.S. export market this year. He made sure he had a stable supply of high-quality blue agave, the succulent whose juice is distilled into tequila, so that once ...

Mexican avocado growers expect US consumers to bear tariffs

03-Jun-2019 - The baby avocados in Enrique Bautista's vast orchard in western Mexico will grow to maturity, eventually, and be shipped out of Mexico. What remains to be seen is how many of those green gems will reach consumers in the United States if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to slap ...

US beverage giant Pepsico wants to invest billions in Mexico

08-May-2019 - The US beverage group Pepsico plans to invest four billion US dollars (around 3.6 billion euros) in projects in Mexico over the next two years. Coca-Cola's competitor announced on Monday (local time) that the construction of a new plant in the Mexican state of Guanajuato is also planned. "This ...