Singapore based global agri-business company Olam International has acquired 100% stake in coffee specialist Schluter for $7.5m. A combination of internal accruals and existing debt facilities will be used by Olam to finance the ...
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Olam International has acquired a 100% stake in Brooks Peanut Company for $85m. Brooks, which was established in 1959, is based in Samson, Alabama. It is currently the sixth largest peanut sheller in the US. The company processes about ...
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Olam International has entered into a $175m five-year loan agreement with IFC, a World Bank Group unit, to fund its working capital and capital expenditure requirements for four of its food processing facilities in Nigeria and India. The ...
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Olam International and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have formed a joint venture called MC Agri Alliance (MCAA) in Japan for the supply of agricultural and food products. The joint venture will import and distribute coffee, cocoa, ...
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US-based agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has completed the acquisition of some assets of Eaststarch C.V., which is ADM’s 50-50 joint venture with Tate & Lyle. Tate& Lyle is a UK-based agribusiness which ...
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Singapore-based commodity major Olam International is keen to make acquisitions of up to SGD$2.72bn ($1.4bn) as it plans to benefit from the dip in prices of agricultural commodities. Olam CEO Sunny Verghese was quoted by Bloomberg as ...
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Japanese global establishment Mitsubishi has agreed to acquire 20% stake in agri-business firm Olam International, in two deals that are valued at around S$1.53bn ($1.09bn). Under the agreed terms, Mitsubishi will acquire 332.73 million ...
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Singapore’s Olam International has agreed to acquire the global cocoa business of Archer Daniels Midland Company, in a $1.3bn deal. This new development is expected to enhance Olam's chocolate and cocoa businesses, in an effort ...
Agri-business company Olam International has agreed to acquire US peanut sheller McCleskey Mills, in a $176m deal. The acquisition is in line with Olam's strategy to invest in specific products, including edible nuts. McCleskey is ...
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Senior executives from 12 of the world's largest chocolate and cocoa companies are signing a joint agreement with the Government of Ghana as part of an unprecedented strategy to accelerate actions to make cocoa farming in the country ...
Agri-business company Olam International plans to invest around $61m to build a new cocoa processing facility in Indonesia. The facility will produce cocoa butter, cocoa cake and high quality cocoa powders, with an initial capacity of ...
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Olam International, a Singapore-based food ingredients supplier, has sold its 50% stake in Lansing Olam Canada in a $5.4m deal. Lansing Olam Canada is a joint venture between Olam and Lansing Trade Group. The transaction was completed ...
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Olam International, a Singapore-based food ingredients supplier, has signed an agreement to divest up to 14.99% of its stake in New Zealand-based Open Country Dairy (OCD) to Talley’s Group for NZ$46.5m. The company currently holds a ...
Cubbie Ag or CS Agriculture, which is co-owned by Chinese textile group Shandong RuYi and Japanese trading company Itochu, along with Australian wool trader Lempriere Group in the ratio of 80:20, has bought a cotton gin in Dirranbandi from ...
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Olam Australia, the wholly owned subsidiary of Olam International Limited, has sold its Dirranbandi cotton gin in Queensland to Cubbie Ginnery Pty Ltd for A$20.0 million. Olam Australia’s Executive Director and Country Head Bob ...
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