Supply Chain

India's Sweet Tooth Suffers As Sugar Output Slides

Satisfying the sweet tooth of the world’s biggest sugar-consuming country is getting a lot more expensive. At a time when demand in India is the h...

Biggest Instant-Coffee Exporter Shuns New Sales As Drought Bites

Brazil’s drought has gotten so bad that the country’s instant-coffee makers, the world’s top suppliers, are no longer entering into new e...

Bleary Eyes Are Price Of Wheat Trading In World’s Top Market

Bleary eyes and missed dinners are now part of the job description for a wheat trader in the world’s most important market. It’s one consequ...

Egypt Raids Sugar Sellers As Shortage Doubles Prices In Weeks

Food trader Adel Abdou was enjoying a weekend with his family when police raided his warehouse in Cairo and seized 45 tons of sugar. “They treat u...

Kuehne & Nagel Falls As Transport Pricing Hurts Quarterly Profit

Kuehne & Nagel International AG fell to the lowest in almost four months as earnings at the Swiss freight-forwarding company missed analysts’...

World’s Biggest Cocoa Grower Is Wiping Out Its Rainforests

After disease ravaged his cocoa farm, Philippe Zongo walked into one of West Africa’s last remaining rainforests to hack out new acreage. Like tho...

BRC Says It Will Side With Consumers To Improve Efficiency Of Supply Chain

In the wake of yesterday's dispute between Unilever and Tesco, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has said that it is not able to comment on the comm...

Mousquetaires To Streamline Private Label Production Costs

France's Le Groupement des Mousquetaires has set itself the goal of reducing costs in its private label supply chain in a move it says is a reaction t...