With India predicted to become the world’s fifth largest consumer economy by 2025, it is no wonder Singaporean manufacturers want to enter this market. To help Singaporean manufacturers export to the country, two manufacturing bodies—Singapore Food Manufacturers Association (SFMA) and Forum of Indian Food Importers (FIFI)—have recently signed a memorandum…

With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) set to eliminate the country’s tariffs on imports, the emerging Vietnam market will soon be opened to all players for agricultural and dairy products. The TPP is a free-trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim countries (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,…

With the improving economic conditions in the emerging countries, Asia Pacific’s chocolate market is set to grow two percent faster than Europe and North America up to 2019, says Transparency Market Research (TMR). According to the report, while North America and Western Europe make up majority of chocolate confectionery revenues,…

More consumers are eating alone, in favour of ad-hoc eating behaviour and continuous snacking than sit-down family meals, reports Hartman Group. In their report that explored the changing dynamics of meal times for American consumers, they found that 53 percent of breakfasts, 45 percent of lunches and 24 percent of…

The US$175 million loan agreement with IFC, a member from the World Bank Group, will finance Singapore-based Olam International’s four food processing facilities in Nigeria and India. These include their Hemarus sugar mill and spice processing facilities in India, and a sesame hulling and Crown Flour Mill facilities in Nigeria.…

With promises and pledges for not only sustainability, but food security and worker’s rights too, how are the world’s top 10 food firms progressing? Oxfam’s Behind the Brands report reveals more. Oxfam International is an international confederation of 17 organisations working in 94 countries to solve poverty and injustice issues…