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Evening markets: London wheat plays catch up with Paris - Agrimoney.com
Evening markets: London wheat plays catch up with Paris
Agrimoney.com
London crops made headway in what trade there was on a thin day for dealing, with US markets closed. A weaker pound, on rumours of heavy selling by a UK ...
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Sulawesi cocoa shipments down by a quarter - AgraNet (subscription)
Sulawesi cocoa shipments down by a quarter
AgraNet (subscription)
COCOA bean exports from Sulawesi, Indonesia's main source, fell 24% in August from a year ago as traders held on to stocks due to lower prices and as trade ...
Fair trade in crosswords - The Guardian
Fair trade in crosswords
The Guardian
The rights and wrongs of Googling as an aid to solving crossword clues have been a theme of my mail in this last month. One solver, referring particularly ...
Hoorah for the double gap yah! - This is London
This is London
Hoorah for the double gap yah!
This is London
Wave goodbye to the gap year because life experience now comes in a 24-month package. The double gap year — like one but twice the size — is the latest ...
Commodity Watch: Wheat continues climb as markets stabalise - Procurement Leaders (blog)
Commodity Watch: Wheat continues climb as markets stabalise
Procurement Leaders (blog)
After a prolonged period of instability, last week's commodity market activity suggest that, for the time being at least, the markets have stabilised. ...
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Fund focus: ETFS tracker tops this crop - This is Money
This is Money
Fund focus: ETFS tracker tops this crop
This is Money
The argument went that as the world's population grew in number and wealth, commodity prices would rise and investors who backed companies ...
Foods Brands Group launches Persol Italiano instant coffee - Talking Retail
Talking Retail
Foods Brands Group launches Persol Italiano instant coffee
Talking Retail
Following a 70.9% uplift in total Percol Fairtrade instant coffee sales (Nielsen 52 Value w/e 24.07.2010), Food Brands Group is capitalising on this success ...
Supermarket boosts Hawthorns Primary's fair trade push - Get Bracknell
Supermarket boosts Hawthorns Primary's fair trade push
Get Bracknell
A Wokingham primary school has been given a helping hand in its bid to support fair trade products courtesy of a Winnersh supermarket. ...
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Ethical Superstore set to reward its investors - nebusiness.co.uk
Ethical Superstore set to reward its investors
nebusiness.co.uk
AN ethical online trader is on track to make its first profit on the back of strong sales growth and a new initiative to expand the range of products it ...
New S3M-6909 - Holyrood Secondary School Fair Trade Group - DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
New S3M-6909 - Holyrood Secondary School Fair Trade Group
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
That the Parliament congratulates Holyrood Secondary School in Glasgow on attaining the status of a fair trade school; notes that fair trade issues have ...
It's good to enjoy the dark side of chocolate - WalesOnline
It's good to enjoy the dark side of chocolate
WalesOnline
MANY of us love chocolate and up until now we all thought we had to stay away from it to stay healthy. Most of us like to treat ourselves and the good news ...
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UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots - The Guardian
UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots
The Guardian
Two years after the last food crisis, when prices surged by nearly 15% in the UK, food inflation is back. Soaring global food prices have prompted City and ...
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UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots - The Guardian
UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots
The Guardian
Two years after the last food crisis, when prices surged by nearly 15% in the UK, food inflation is back. Soaring global food prices have prompted City and ...
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Recipe: Everyday brownies - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Recipe: Everyday brownies
Daily Mail
It's not as if I were short of a brownie recipe or two: I have over the years made them on easy autopilot; but I am no less grateful for ...
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Photographs of the cocoa supply chain in Ghana - Ethical Corporation Magazine
Photographs of the cocoa supply chain in Ghana
Ethical Corporation Magazine
Ethical Corporation's Toby Webb recently travelled to Ghana to look at the cocoa supply chain with Kraft/Cadbury. This page links to the slideshow and blog ...
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Global Cocoa, Chocolate and Sugar Confectionery Manufacturing - just-food.com (subscription)
Global Cocoa, Chocolate and Sugar Confectionery Manufacturing
just-food.com (subscription)
Many resellers don't offer refunds full stop. We're different. If you are dissatisfied with your purchase let us know within 5 working days. ...
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Town preparing a Fair Trade guide - Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
Town preparing a Fair Trade guide
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
Wellingborough is preparing to celebrate its status as a Fair Trade borough with a special celebration and a new directory. ...
Cocoa traders sceptical over supply crunch - AgraNet (subscription)
Cocoa traders sceptical over supply crunch
AgraNet (subscription)
THE prospect of a supply crunch in the Liffe cocoa market this month has been thrown into doubt, dealers said on Thursday, as price falls pointed to ...
France proposes EU commodities markets regulation - Reuters UK
Reuters UK
France proposes EU commodities markets regulation
Reuters UK
A worker at a steel plant in the French Lorraine region, in a file photo. By Sybille de La Hamaide and Marc Joanny PARIS (Reuters) - France has sent ...
50000 of the latest household products on show - Independent
50000 of the latest household products on show
Independent
Boys' and girls' lunch boxes, fashionable steel wine racks, children's highchairs and a 'dumb waiter' in the shape of the puppet from horror movie Saw, ...
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- Ghanaian cocoa purchases 9% lower year-on-year - AgraNet (subscription)
- Huge Kraft deal sends Barry Callebaut soaring - Agrimoney.com
- Thorntons pledges to keep prices fixed despite rising costs - Mirror.co.uk
- How to make perfect brownies - The Guardian
- Hotel Chocolat finds it has plenty of room for expansion - Independent
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