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Asian Palm Oil Buyers Replenish Inventories As Prices Correct

Asian buyers are ramping up palm oil purchases to replenish inventories after prices corrected to their lowest in a year and as top producer Indonesia has...

Diageo To Explore Sustainable Packaging Solutions With ecoSPIRITS

Diageo has announced a partnership with ecoSPIRITS, a technology company who produce circular packaging solutions for the spirits and wine industry, to pil...

Strong Asian Rice Demand For Animal Feed Sparks Food Supply Worries

A surge in wheat and corn prices is boosting demand for low-grade rice in animal rations across Asia, pushing up prices of the world's most important stapl...

Budweiser Brewing Co APAC Sees Strong Demand For Premium Beer In China

Budweiser Brewing Co APAC, Asia's largest beer company by sales, said that it plans to promote more high-end beer in China, having seen strong demand espec...

Reckitt, Diversey Announce Distribution Partnership

Home and personal care firm Reckitt and cleaning solutions provider Diversey have announced a distribution partnership to expand access to hygiene solution...

New Bird Flu Has Higher Risk Of Spread To Humans: Animal Health Director

A wave of bird flu in Asia and Europe has a greater risk of spreading to humans because of a high number of variants, the World Organisation...

Asian Competition Drives Ivory Coast's Cashew Processors To Bankruptcy

Ivory Coast cashew processors are being driven towards bankruptcy by Asian exporters who buy up all the local supply, thwarting a government plan to invigo...