Sugar

Funds Sour On Sugar As Brazil Outlook Eclipses Global Deficit

Investors are losing their taste for sugar. Money managers are backpedaling on bets prices will rally, cutting their wagers last week for the first time...

AB Foods Offers To Buy Illovo Sugar Stake For $370 Million

Associated British Foods Plc increased its offer to buy Illovo Sugar Ltd., valuing the African producer at 11.5 billion rand ($759 million) and expanding t...

Africa Sugar Growers Seen Unprepared For End Of EU Import Quotas

Trade barriers and poor infrastructure are preventing sugar producers in sub-Saharan Africa from accessing under-supplied regions on the continent as an im...

Soft-Drink Makers Plunge On Surprise UK Budget Sugar Levy

Companies that profit from Britain’s sweet tooth plunged as the UK unveiled a sugar tax, a surprise move that adds another burden to food and beverag...

EU Sugar-Price Surge Spurs Imports From Brazil As Sucden Ships

Surging European Union sugar prices are spurring imports from northeast Brazil under a system that allows supplies to enter at reduced rates. Trader Suc...

EU Said To Meet Sugar Industry To Discuss Possible Supply Crunch

European Union officials met with representatives from the sugar industry to discuss a possible supply crunch as imports may fall short of the bloc’s...

Sugar-Cane Fuel Wins In Brazil As Cheap Ethanol Beats Gasoline

Brazil’s economic and political crises are proving to be a boon to one of the nation’s most embattled sectors: ethanol producers. Drivers, w...

Foodmakers Warn Of Looming EU Sugar Crisis As Supply Drops

The European Union needs to take action to avoid sugar shortages for food- and beverage-makers, according to the Committee of European Sugar Users, a group...