05-Aug-2019

The important ice-cream ingredient vanilla is showing a lower harvest and thus persistently high prices. "We expect the harvest to be 20 to 25 percent lower than last year," said Georges Geeraerts, head of Madagascar's vanilla export association, in an initial assessment of yields in the world's ...

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11-Dec-2018

The Canada Food Price Report for 2019, released earlier this week, makes assumptions that the cost of meat is set to fall because Canadians are adopting plant-based diets. In fact, the beef demand index is strong, only showing a decrease of 2% demand in 2018, but maintaining levels not seen since ...

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Chocolate companies have to follow suit now

04-Dec-2018

Today, the Fairtrade seal initiative announced a significant increase in the guaranteed minimum price for cocoa. The development organisation INKOTA welcomes this important step to reduce the poverty of cocoa farmers. If chocolate companies were serious about sustainability, they would also have ...

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25-Jun-2018

The soaring prices of onions and potatoes have added a new wrinkle to this weekend's presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. In Istanbul, the price of a kilogram of onions increased by more than 210 per cent in the past month and potatoes by 94 per cent, according to private ...

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25-Aug-2017

Amazon plans to use its deep pockets to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it will cut prices on bananas, eggs, salmon, beef and more when it completes its $13.7 billion takeover next week. Helping Whole Foods win back customers who found "good enough" organic and natural products elsewhere ...

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New technology allows better milk price for farmers

02-Jun-2017

Life-science group Zaluvida announced today that the results of several surveys* conducted across Europe and North America confirm that 50% of consumers are willing to pay more for climate-smart products. Over 80% of the people polled expressed their concern about climate change and believe that ...

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19-May-2017

Munich's city council has rejected an attempt to take the froth off beer prices at the annual Oktoberfest. Deputy mayor Josef Schmid, who oversees the Bavarian capital's annual beer extravaganza, had sought a legal cap for the next three years on the price of the traditional Mass, a one-liter ...

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18-May-2017

Executives of the most popular tuna brands in the U.S. - Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee and StarKist - conspired regularly to keep prices high for consumers with a taste for one of America's favorite sandwich ingredients, according to criminal and civil court records updated this week. A typical ...

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Nordzucker and DNZ conclude negotiations

24-Apr-2017

Nordzucker AG and trade association Dachverband Norddeutscher Zuckerrübenanbauer e.V. (DNZ) have agreed on the terms of the beet supply contracts for growing years starting in 2018. Beet growers are again offered various options. All the contracts will be published shortly on the Agri ...

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12-Oct-2015

Smaller bags of potato chips and drinks that do not have Pepsi printed on them are helping push up PepsiCo's sales. PepsiCo Inc. said Tuesday that snack volume in North America rose by 0.5 percent for the third quarter, while pricing pushed up sales for the division by 2 percent. The maker of ...

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