The company is introducing shrink-wrap packaging made from 50% post-consumer recycled waste (PCRW). By the end of the year, all its UK-made brands and products it makes under private label will come packed in the sustainable wrapping.

Fresca wants to achieve sales of INR1.5 billion (USD21.6 million) by 2022 and capture 2% of the country’s nectars market and 10% of the market in India’s northern states. It is also looking to quadruple its sales in the aseptically-packed juice drinks segment.

CEPEA says that the average price, for the week ending April 15, is already the second-highest for the month. The same was observed in the first quarter of 2019, when the nominal average in January was only lower than in January 2018 and the nominal averages in February and March were only lower than in the same months of 2016.

The Economic Survey of Pakistan says that the harvest may also be late. A lot of unripe fruit has been downed by recent high winds and rain, according to local media.

Turkish dried fruit processor Sanford AS is targeting younger generations with a wide range of products aimed at children between 18-24 months, IEG Vu learned at the Polaris event in Athens (April 15-17).

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

The company is introducing shrink-wrap packaging made from 50% post-consumer recycled waste (PCRW). By the end of the year, all its UK-made brands and products it makes under private label will come packed in the sustainable wrapping.

Ontario agriculture minister Ernie Hardeman has called for the province's vegetable processing industry marketing and pricing system overhaul, and received a backlash from the industry.

Frozen albacore raw material is included in the preliminary list of products the European Commission announced yesterday (April 17), in the context of the EU and US trade tariff dispute over Boeing and Airbus subsidies.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

Under marine global warming scenarios, the study ‘Climate change will redistribute tuna’ foresees key tuna species skipjack, yellowfin, bluefin and albacore moving to optimised habitats widely disseminated from EEZ waters to the poles.

North American cocoa grindings rose more or less within market forecasts, data from the National Confectioners Association (NCA) showed on Thursday (April 18).

Slightly better than expected European first quarter 2019 grind results failed to stop cocoa prices initially melting off last week’s final nine-month highs.

Cocoa futures in both markets firm up following grinding data from Asia.

Cocoa processing in Asia rose 9.5% in the first quarter of 2019 from a year earlier, the latest data from the Cocoa Association of Asia (CAA) showed.

Cocoa port arrivals into Ivory Coast are still rising in year-ago comparisons, though percentage increases had a slip this week.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

Brazil’s largest manufacturer of roasted and ground coffee, Três Corações reported a net profit of BRL 298.4 million (USD75.95 million) in 2018, up 16.6% over the previous year.

Fund selling and a weaker Real were again cited behind another slump in coffee prices, taking the nearby arabica contract down to fresh 13-year lows.

Brazil's Cepea reported a sharp drop in domestic prices last week on spillover weakness from the "C" arabica market and a weaker local currency.

Arabica coffee futures on ICE fell to a 13½-year low, weighed down by ongoing concern over massive supplies and a weakening of the Brazilian currency to a three-week low.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

The International Dairy Federation (IDF) is set to encourage better international practices for Brazilian milk production, according to its Director, Caroline Emond.

Both Polish and Czech commodities continued showing volatility, with wholesale prices only down by marginal levels in Poland.

Bologna-based Granarolo announced it has increased its stake in Venchiaredo, a specialty cheese producer.

The EU's campaign to clear the last of its intervention skimmed milk powder has run out of steam, with only a small fraction of the remaining stockpile being sold at this week's tender.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

The sudden onset of warmer weather in the UK will divert attention from traditional bakery products containing dried fruit to other more seasonal lines, such as salads and summer recipes. The good news is that UK importers have reported strong pre-Easter sales and virtually no delays either for shipment or at the ports of arrival. The only ongoing difficulty is the continuing fluctuation in the value of sterling against both the euro and the US dollar.

The Spanish agriculture insurance specialist, Agroseguro, claims that 57,610 hectares of orange, fruit and almond plantations were impacted by March frosts in the eastern Spanish regions of Catalonia, Valencia and Castile-La Mancha after frosts and strong winds between December 2018 and March 2019.

Turkish dried fruit processor Sanford AS is targeting younger generations with a wide range of products aimed at children between 18-24 months, IEG Vu learned at the Polaris event in Athens (April 15-17).

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

California raisin shipments totalled 148,488 packaged (short) tons from August 2018-February 2019, 27% less than in the same period the previous season.

The Spanish agriculture insurance specialist, Agroseguro, claims that 57,610 hectares of orange, fruit and almond plantations were impacted by March frosts in the eastern Spanish regions of Catalonia, Valencia and Castile-La Mancha after frosts and strong winds between December 2018 and March 2019.

Recent overnight frosts in Bulgaria are reported to have inflicted significant damage on fruit plantations in the north-east of the country.

CEPEA says that the average price, for the week ending April 15, is already the second-highest for the month. The same was observed in the first quarter of 2019, when the nominal average in January was only lower than in January 2018 and the nominal averages in February and March were only lower than in the same months of 2016.

The Economic Survey of Pakistan says that the harvest may also be late. A lot of unripe fruit has been downed by recent high winds and rain, according to local media.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

Ontario agriculture minister Ernie Hardeman has called for the province's vegetable processing industry marketing and pricing system overhaul, and received a backlash from the industry.

Turkish dried fruit processor Sanford AS is targeting younger generations with a wide range of products aimed at children between 18-24 months, IEG Vu learned at the Polaris event in Athens (April 15-17).

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

France are Germany are the largest buyers of organic frozen fruit in Europe, according to Hristina (Tina) Radosavljevic of Serbian fruit processor Fortis, at Athens during the Polaris B2B event (15-17 April)

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

India might not repeat last season’s bumper mango crop due to a lack of rain in the past weeks, IEG Vu was told at the Polaris Frozen B2B event held in Athens on April 15-17.

US wheat markets closed lower to start the week with Minneapolis being the leader to the downside.

Corn prices were weaker on Monday, with the May settling 3 1/4 cent to $3.54 3/4.

Soybean futures ended lower Monday, pressured by weakness in wheat and corn futures. Soybean meal and soybean oil futures also settled modestly lower. May soybeans were 3 1/2 cents lower at USD8.77.

US farmers are slowly making progress toward getting the growing season underway for spring-planted crops, with corn, soybean and spring wheat planting all running behind the average pace normally seen at this time of year.

Ample US and global stocks continue to anchor corn values against concerns about slow US planting progress.

Soybean futures posted slight gains Thursday, finding technical support after two days of sharp losses. Soybean meal futures ended lower, while soybean oil futures saw modest gains. May soybeans were 1 1/2 cents higher at USD8.80 1/2.

EU lamb prices have risen further over the past week, breaking back through the EUR550 per 100kg barrier for the first time since last June.

The price explosion on European pig markets has continued over the past week, with prices once more surging upwards in response to Chinese import demand.

A new bill introduced last week by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) would temporarily suspend beef and poultry imports from Brazil until USDA sets up a new food safety working group that can recommend whether the products are safe.

EU member states have agreed on a series of changes to rules on imports of animal products from countries including Argentina, Russia and Egypt.

U.S. meat exporters secured access to another new market in North Africa this week as Tunisia opened its market to American beef, poultry and egg products.

Trade in beef cattle accelerated in Brazil last week as producers sought to take advantage of current high prices.

Soybean futures ended lower Monday, pressured by weakness in wheat and corn futures. Soybean meal and soybean oil futures also settled modestly lower. May soybeans were 3 1/2 cents lower at USD8.77.

US farmers are slowly making progress toward getting the growing season underway for spring-planted crops, with corn, soybean and spring wheat planting all running behind the average pace normally seen at this time of year.

Soybean futures posted slight gains Thursday, finding technical support after two days of sharp losses. Soybean meal futures ended lower, while soybean oil futures saw modest gains. May soybeans were 1 1/2 cents higher at USD8.80 1/2.

Sales of US soybeans for the week to April 11 came in at the low end of expectations.

Amaggi, one of the largest producers and processors of grains and oilseeds in Brazil, had its 2018 results lifted by good momentum of the Brazilian soybean market last year, mainly in production and export of the oilseed from Brazil.

Mixed weather ahead of largest rapeseed supplier Canada’s spring sowing campaign and a pending acreage assessment by official body Statistics Canada next week kept Winnipeg futures within a narrow trading.

Nepal’s cardamom exports fell by 37.7% in volume to 1,858 tonnes and by 42.8% to NPR1.5 billion (USD13.7 million) in H1 2018/2019 (15 July-15 January) compared with the same period in the previous season, due to a higher Indian crop in that period, according to Nepalese authorities.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.

One of the three key European food shows, Alimentaria is promising greater focus on fin, organic, ‘free from’, halal and functional foods next year with a new product sector, Food Trends. The show is once again being held with Hostelco, which covers the Horeca industry.

Indian turmeric prices started to fall from April 9 onwards, after experiencing a gradual recovery from April 1 due to strong 2018/19 crop.

US food and drink products could be hit with additional import duties by the European Union, as a trade dispute between the two markets over aircraft subsidies escalates.

Ukraine’s honey exports fell by 27% in volume to 49,460 tonnes and by 26.7% in value to USD98.2 mln in 2018 compared with the previous year.  

Crests and troughs in the sugar market have been getting closer through 2019 to date, suggesting the known fundamentals are now mostly priced in.

Pakistan produced 1,602,774 tonnes of sugar cane, white value, in February 2019, up 12% from 1,433,016 in the same month last year, official data showed.

Sugar mills in Brazil’s Centre/South (CS) region are expected to raise sugar production in the new 2019/20 season to somewhere between 27 and 28 million tonnes, tel quel, from 26.5 mln in 2018/19, local consultancy Canaplan projected.

Cristal Union plans to close two sugar factories in France, local daily L'Opinion reported.

Raw sugar futures in New York ended lower for the third straight session as a weaker Brazilian real weighed on the market.

IEG Vu’s London office will be closed on Good Friday (April 19) and Easter Monday (April 22) due to UK national holidays.