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Asian Retailers Reap Benefits From 'Year Of The Pig' Celebrations: IGD

Retailers and big brands used the recent Chinese New Year celebrations to help boost sales and raise brand awareness, a new report from IGD has found. T...

Plastic Packaging Firms' Credit Quality To Come Under Pressure: Moody's

European plastic packaging firms are likely to see their credit quality come under pressure in 2019, as efforts to reduce plastic waste are ratcheted up, a...

Global Cocoa Production To Hit Record High In 2019: Study

Cocoa production across the globe will hit a record high of 4.85 million tonnes in 2019, with production in West Africa increasing by around a third, new r...

Spain's Mercadona Increases Portuguese Food Purchases By 40%

Spanish grocery retailer Mercadona purchased €88 million worth of goods from Portuguese suppliers in 2018, representing a 39.7% increase on the previo...

Jerónimo Martins Eyes Romania, Possible Latin America Expansion

Portuguese retail group Jerónimo Martins is eyeing potential locations in Romania, with plans to launch in the country in the next two and a half ye...

Croatia's Agrokor To Be Relaunched As Fortenova From April

Croatian food-to-retail consortium Agrokor is to be renamed Fortenova Group, effective 1 April. The decision was announced by the interim creditors' cou...

UK Consumers Optimistic About Financial Wellbeing: Nielsen

More than a third (34%) of people in Britain feel that they are financially better off now than five years ago, according to Nielsen's new report on changi...