Global beverage giant The Coca-Cola Company has made a deal with South African multinational brewing and beverage company SABMiller to acquire its Appletiser drinks brands on a worldwide basis, and acquire or be licensed rights to a further ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Sabmiller, Agriculture
East Africa is undergoing a major transformation to become a new world-class player on the energy market. By 2025, east Africa is expected to experience an incremental production growth of nearly one million barrels per day (b/d), led by ...
Tags: energy market, Hydrocarbon
The 9th World Manager Summit Meeting was held in Hong Kong on Sept. 24, 2014, and top 500 Asian brands were revealed during the meeting, and Linglong Tire ranked the 353th, and this is the first time for Linglong Tire to be listed on the ...
IATA reports that air freight volumes were up by a strong 5.8% in July compared to a year ago. This is an acceleration on June, when freight tonne kilometres rose 2.4%, and reflects improving demand conditions in some regions. There was ...
Tags: Air Freight, Service
BASF inaugurated its new production plant for concrete admixtures in Nairobi. The production site will allow BASF to better meet the increasing demand for construction chemicals of customers in Eastern Africa. There, BASF produces standard ...
Tags: BASF, Facility, Construction
2013 Tea Production of Global Main Tea Producing Countries and Regions Country 2013 Total Production (t) Compared to the same period last year India 1,200,040 6.54% ...
HS Code Product Name 8450 Household or laundrytype washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry, the following text referred to as "washing machine" Chinese Washing Machine ...
French dairy major Danone has agreed to acquire 40% stake in , dairy company Brookside Dairy. The move is in line with the company's strategy to expand its presence across Africa. Brookside currently sells long-life milk in Kenya and ...
Tags: Danone, Brookside Dairy, Food
FESPA Africa 2014 is set to be the largest exhibition in the region to date after securing commitment from major industry players. A large number of global companies including Canon, Agfa, Mimaki, Fujifilm and Epson have confirmed their ...
Tags: Textile
The World Bank will fund infrastructure projects worth $245 million to revamp facilities in Uganda's Albertine oil region, ahead of first oil production in the country, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement Thursday. ...
Tags: Infrastructure Funds, Oil
The business is located in Leicester and has a Ugandan subsidiary. It specialises in the manufacture of packaging, packaging machinery and contract packing for the food sector. In 2013 Khalid was awarded the "Pearl of Africa Lifetime ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food Packaging
Out of 3 crore 75 lakhs bales of cotton crop predicted, approximately 3 crore 10 lakh bales have been pressed till 15th April as per trade sources and the daily kappas arrivals is quickly dropping to 95,000 bales per day. As per trade ...
Tags: Cotton Market, cotton crop
Solar photovoltaic (PV) demand from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is set to grow 50% on year in 2014. Between 2014-2018, annual PV demand will nearly triple as the MEA region becomes a key market for the global industry, according ...
The conflict mineral issue is providing a perfect storm for social change. It’s also leading electronics company CEOs to understand with great discomfort just how little they truly know about their supply chains. It’s a ...
A 16-member six country African delegation is in India to explore ways and means to increase exports of African cotton to India. The delegation is also visiting various Indian textile clusters in order to check and imbibe the best practices ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Cotton