Archives for November 10, 2016

New Zealand

Bigger companies now opting to outsource their sales to agencies

More big Kiwi food and grocery companies have been seeking specialist help from sales and merchandising agencies as cost and margin pressures increase, the boss of New Zealand's biggest field marketing agency has revealed.

Australia-New Zealand

Regulator considers permitting use of all minor steviol glycosides

The antipodean food regulator is surveying opinion on an application by a natural sweetener company to permit a wider range of steviol glycosides for use as intense sweeteners.

Feature

Australian pasture feeding the booming South American cattle industry

The thriving South American beef industry is helping Australian pasture crops find new roots.

Dateline Southeast Asia

Agrana expands dairy fruit operation to SE Asia and India

One of the leading fruit companies in the Far East has set out to expand in Southeast Asia by opening new offices in Thailand and India and signing an exclusive supply deal.

Major investment in pig processing site in Northern China

Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand’s (CP) Chinese business is investing CNY3.6 billion ($531m) in a site intended to process one million pigs annually in one of the country’s less populated regions.