Australian juice companies are continuing to use oranges from Brazil that may contain residues of the potentially harmful fungicide carbendazim, despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) temporarily...

Brazil has become the top-ranked developing market for retail expansion, according to consultants at A.T. Kearney.The firm said today (6 June) that Brazil jumped from fifth last year on its Global Retail...

Sara Lee announced last week that it has signed an agreement to acquire Café Damasco, a coffee business based in the southern region of Brazil. The acquisition price represents a multiple of around...

Nestlé is to launch a floating supermarket on the Brazilian Amazon to extend its reach into some of the least commercially-developed parts of the world. Named Nestlé Até Você a Bordo – or Nestlé...

The food industry has moved closer to responsibly-produced soy being available in the marketplace, with members of the soy sector agreeing to finalise new global standards to improve production. Late on...

The CEO of Barry Callebaut has said he wants the firm to be the “number one” chocolate maker in South America. Speaking last week, a day before the opening of Barry Callebaut’s first chocolate...

Brazilian orange juice manufacturers Citrosuco and Citrovita announced earlier this week their plans to merge to form the biggest orange juice producer in the world with sales exceeding two billion reais...

Brazil, India and South Africa will be central to the future growth of Fairtrade, the executive director of UK-based charity The Fairtrade Foundation has told just-food. Harriet Lamb said a combination...

Australian representatives will today meet with World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva to protest over-quota sugar exports by the European Union, which they maintain are in breach of WTO agreements. Along...

Australian sugar prices have recently reached levels not seen for 30 years, driven by high demand from India and poor harvest progress in Brazil. According to a prediction in the latest NAB Rural Communities...