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...Bunge’s strengths in processing and downstream plus Viterra’s in merchandising and handling creates a more integrated global company....
...The company’s “value chain” unit, which includes trading of grains, oilseeds and sugar, “posted decent logistics and processing margins” said the company, while its “merchandising” segment benefited from...
...The company forms the A in the so-called ‘ABCD’ of food commodities traders that handle a large share of global grain exports....
...The Baltimore-based group said Robin Thurston, chief digital officer, and Henry Stafford, chief merchandising officer, would exit in July. mamta.badkar@ft.com Twitter: @mamtabadkar...
...Revenues are forecast to reach $893m this year through advertising, ticket sales, sponsorship and merchandising....
...Simon Emeny, the head of Fuller, Smith & Turner, said: “I am feeling more down as a rugby fan than as the chief executive of a pub company where lots of people are watching the games....
...Earnings at the merchandising and handling division fell 20 per cent due to the adverse pricing structure in the grain markets....
...merchandising at Mitsui....
...In ADM’s fiscal year to June 30, operating profit from merchandising and handling grains fell 39 per cent as low grain and oilseed stocks and high prices reduced US exports....
...fall 63 per cent on what it called “on poor international merchandising results and lower US export volumes”....
...Grain merchandising is “clearly driving the ship, while Bunge’s sugar ethanol and fertiliser business continue to produce modest results”....
...When Ug99 strikes, the leaves and stems of healthy wheat grow red blister-like pustules and eventually turn into a tangle of black stems and shrivelled grains – causing huge crop losses....
...Christina McGlone, agribusiness analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York, says that with the breakdown of normal trading relationships after Russia’s grain export ban, “global trading and merchandising businesses...
...The business, to be renamed Gavilon, merchandises and distributes grains and fertiliser, and trades agricultural and energy commodities....
...But its diversification goes against the global grain all the same. Shareholder activists these days disapprove of anything that could not be considered the ultimate hard core of a company’s business....
...The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, chaired by Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, will consider folding the Tokyo Commodity Exchange and Tokyo Grain Exchange into the TSE....
...“They went against the grain,” says David Yoffie, professor of international business at Harvard Business School....
...The deal brings together Bandai's merchandising expertise and Namco's presence in arcades....
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