The cocoa & chocolate business of Cargill has set up its own licensed buying company (LBC) after securing a licence from the Ghanaian Cocoa Board (Cocobod). The new LBC has started operations and Cargill purchased its initial consignment ...
American whiskey producer Beam Suntory has opened a new barrel warehouse in Frankfort, located in the US state of Kentucky. The seven-story building is the first new barrel warehouse in Frankfort since 1968. Spanning over ...
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Olam Cocoa opened a new Cocoa Product Development & Innovation Centre at its llhéus processing facility in Brazil. The announcement was made to mark the 70th anniversary for Olam Cocoa’s leading Brazilian cocoa brand, Joanes, ...
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Bimbo Bakeries USA will shut down its production activities at its baking plant in Lubbock, Texas in early January 2017, affecting about 75 employees. The baking company will move out its production from Lubbock to its Rockawall bakery ...
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The San Diego seafood company Genova has launched a new line of yellowfin and albacore tuna packed in easy-open cans. Gourmet tuna aficionados can now find two of Genova’s most popular products packed in portable cans with pull-tab ...
Chocolate and cocoa products maker Barry Callebaut is expanding production capacity at its American Canyon facility with $20m investment. The facility expansion is in direct response to the increase in demand for chocolate in the American ...
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China's exports growth narrowed from previous drops in October while imports accelerated growth, however weak global demand might weigh on future trade growth. Exports measured in yuan fell 3.2 percent year on year in October, a slower ...
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As both exports and imports failed to meet early forecasts, China foreign trade decreased to 2.05 trillion yuan (US$307.2 billion) in October, down 0.6 percent from the same period last year, Customs data showed on Tuesday. China's ...
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The White House has open-sourced the code for its Facebook Messenger bot that's been receiving messages sent by the public to President Obama. Back in August, The White House made it possible, essentially, for anyone to send a message to ...
Humax has announced its new H3 Espresso Smart Media Player, which allows users to stream content in Full HD from services such as Netflix, as well as live TV without the need for an aerial. The device works in the much the same way as ...
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Analysts are predicting that Apple won't roll out a refresh of its lower-cost iPhone SE range in the first half of 2017, which would mark a different hardware strategy between its larger iPhone and the SE. According to Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI ...
US crude exports rose 35,000 b/d to a record 692,000 b/d in September after Brent's premium to WTI widened, an analysis of Census Bureau data released Friday showed. Brent's premium over WTI widened from 34 cents/b in May to average ...
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Taiwan’s government has focused on expanding the island’s PV power generation as part of its plan to abandon nuclear power. In terms of targets, Taiwan aims to add 1.52GW of PV capacity between mid-2016 and mid-2018 and ...
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In October, Jiefang medium and heavy trucks were delivered 20800 units in total, and the sales of only one enterprise-Jiefang has achieved amazing a volume of 200 thousand. In the gloomy time, the heavy trucks industry as a whole had the ...
Google has admitted that demand for the new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones "exceeded" its expectations. The new Google Pixel smartphones have proved extremely popular, with several models of both the Pixel and Pixel XL now unavailable to ...
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