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...Sykes cited as his primary regret “not marrying a Puligny-Montrachet grower’s daughter”....
...And repeating the exercise with just the top quartile of growers reveals greater revenue persistence, but not profit persistence. Here’s the punchline....
...The port shippers only decide that a year is good enough to produce a vintage port every three or four years, and they call that “declaring a vintage”. 48....
...One of these more substantial vineyard owners is Symington Family Estates, one of the leading port shippers with more than 1,000ha....
...“[You’re] seeing huge purchase prices because these businesses have proven to be growers and non-cyclical.”...
...Now it lists just eight: 48) Loan Transactions and Technology LLC / Edge Tradeworks Edge Tradeworks, which previously operated under the “Loan Transactions and Technology” name, offer loan trading tools...
...According to Nicola Arcedeckne-Butler of Private Cellar: “There is a lot of bad feeling from many French authorities and even growers that it was our choice [to leave the EU], not theirs, so we have to accept...
...In Germany, by contrast, the rains have been little, often and revitalising, with growers hoping for a vintage even better than the one produced by last year’s hot, dry summer....
...“Shippers of agricultural products – including growers, food processors, grain elevators – are faced with a time-intensive and often unreliable sourcing process,” said the company....
...Political tensions have strained the bond between US growers and Turkish spinners....
...Schumacher argued that as much food and other products as possible should be made and sold locally. Mr Puri admits his salad costs more to bring to market than that from growers 3,000 miles away....
...Elsewhere, Hanjin Shipping fell as much as 8.3 per cent, the biggest decliner on the Kospi, after the indebted Korean shipper was told by a court to return the ships it charters to their owners and sell...
...“In terms of plans for the [cotton] business, they remain the same in terms of helping growers and buyers,” it said....
...Vitol, the world’s biggest independent oil trader, and Gunvor, once the biggest shipper of Russian crude, last week both reported net profits of more than $1bn for 2015....
...Its biggest advance has been with Russia’s sanctions-hit producer Rosneft, leveraging ties between some of their top executives to become the go-to crude and refined products shipper for the Kremlin-controlled...
...“What has changed is the low cost producers are still in Iowa but the high cost producers are growers in Mato Grosso, Brazil [where costs are much higher],” says Chris Gadd, a grains analyst at Macquarie...
...These investors are providing new capital and taking over loans to shippers from Bank of Ireland, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi as banks look to cut their exposure to the sector...
...Some of us who have travelled in Australia and seen the lengths that growers go to there to protect their ungrafted vines from this deadly aphid – with footbaths, special machinery and the like – asked why...
...“The workforce may change,” said Jim Bogart, president of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California....
...But the port shippers have taken a leaf out of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape sales manual....
...There are also critics of high-frequency dealing, such as Joseph Saluzzi of Themis Trading and Jordan Lea, president of the American Cotton Shippers Association....
...The number of bottlers of wine, as opposed to growers of grapes, in this arid region has increased enormously in the past few years, and the cardinal sins of over-oaking and over-ripeness are much less in...
...Tight supply conditions, exacerbated by losses in Pakistan, the world’s fourth-largest grower, after it suffered devastating flooding, have drawn hedge funds and other speculators to the New York cotton...
...“The trade is still pumping out massive amounts of money,” said Jordan Lea, president of the American Cotton Shippers’ Association, which represents merchants in top exporter the US....
...“From a consumption standpoint, they are the elephant in the room,” Jordan Lea, president of the American Cotton Shippers’ Association, said of China....
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