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Interview: NYSE Liffe's Garry Jones - This is Money
This is Money
Interview: NYSE Liffe's Garry Jones
This is Money
From his office window in the City, Garry Jones can ponder the mighty Thames and its historic role in creating the exchange over which he ...
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Asia and Russia put Barry Callebaut in sweet spot - Agrimoney.com
Asia and Russia put Barry Callebaut in sweet spot
Agrimoney.com
Developing countries' growing taste for chocolate, and a switch among smaller labels to outsourcing, will help Barry Callebaut to grow confectionery volumes ...
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Schwag Grab: Win new season's road.cc Tshirts - road.cc
Schwag Grab: Win new season's road.cc Tshirts
road.cc
By tony_farrelly - Posted on 23 August 2010 Finally the news that the worlds of cycling and fashion have been waiting for… the new seson's road.cc t-shirts ...
Commodity Watch: Energy on the wane; softs volatile - Procurement Leaders (blog)
Commodity Watch: Energy on the wane; softs volatile
Procurement Leaders (blog)
Another week, another set of surprising commodity-price movements. While softs - particularly coffee - remain volatile (coffee and sugar reached highs, ...
THE ENCHANTED TREE IS UPROOTING - Prfire (press release)
THE ENCHANTED TREE IS UPROOTING
Prfire (press release)
The Enchanted Tree is closing it's retail shop and going mobile, but still retaining it's online shop. Having found that being in a permanent site (the ...
The £1.8tn-a-day trader of interest rates - This is Money
This is Money
The £1.8tn-a-day trader of interest rates
This is Money
From his office window in the City, Garry Jones can ponder the mighty Thames and its historic role in creating the exchange over which he now presides. ...
Cameroon Probes Reasons For 2009-2010 Cocoa Output Drop - Automated Trader
Cameroon Probes Reasons For 2009-2010 Cocoa Output Drop
Automated Trader
DOUALA, Cameroon -(Dow Jones)- Cameroon's National Cocoa and Coffee Board, or NCCB, is investigating reasons for the cocoa producers decrease in the crop's ...
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Get a taste for art at the edible exhibition - Scotsman
Get a taste for art at the edible exhibition
Scotsman
Around 500 freshly baked vanilla and chocolate cakes will be handed out for free tomorrow as part of what is billed as the world's first ...
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Evening markets: investor disbelief helps wheat limit losses - Agrimoney.com
Evening markets: investor disbelief helps wheat limit losses
Agrimoney.com
Wheat continued its run of frail Fridays. But it wasn't such a walkover this time, despite a series of forces ranged against the grain. ...
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Style wizard Emma Watson casts her magic over ethical fashion - The Guardian
Style wizard Emma Watson casts her magic over ethical fashion
The Guardian
She remains best known for playing the youthful wizard Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. But now Emma Watson is weaning teenage shoppers away from ...
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Togolese cocoa output could increase by 43% - AgraNet (subscription)
Togolese cocoa output could increase by 43%
AgraNet (subscription)
COCOA production in Togo may rise by 43% to 5000 tonnes during the 2010/11 harvest after the government cut the price of fertilizer to increase use, ...
Ivorian cocoa prices fall as exporters go on holiday - AgraNet (subscription)
Ivorian cocoa prices fall as exporters go on holiday
AgraNet (subscription)
COCOA farmgate prices in Ivory Coast's main growing regions fell again last week as exporters went on holiday and cocoa beans arriving at ports were too ...
Fair Trade Wine – Why it's good for the Wine Industry! - The Global Herald
Fair Trade Wine – Why it's good for the Wine Industry!
The Global Herald
At the The Wine Blokes we've embraced the concept of Fair Trade. To be honest, prior to investigating a little further, we had limited knowledge of the ...
Bono clothes firm Edun hits wrong note - This is London
Bono clothes firm Edun hits wrong note
This is London
U2 singer Bono and wife Ali Hewson's fair trade clothing firm Edun lost nearly $9 million (£5.8 million) last year, 90% more than the previous year. ...
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Nestle appoint Mark Hayward and Vicky Quemby as Cocoa Plan Ambassadors - The Press, York
Nestle appoint Mark Hayward and Vicky Quemby as Cocoa Plan Ambassadors
The Press, York
TWO Nestlé employees from York will travel to Africa's Ivory Coast next month after being appointed Cocoa Plan Ambassadors by the company. ...
WIN £50 VOUCHERS - Mirror.co.uk
WIN £50 VOUCHERS
Mirror.co.uk
Give the Cash Queens top marks for teaming up with Tesco to offer 10 lucky readers a brilliant back to school ...
Garden party launch for Emma Watson fashion collection - Easier (press release)
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Garden party launch for Emma Watson fashion collection
Easier (press release)
Emma Watson's Spring/Summer 2011 fashion collection will be launched by People Tree, the British fair trade clothing company, at The Prince of Wales' 12-day ...
Emma Watson launches new collectionTelegraph.co.uk
Emma Watson to display eco-clothing range at royal eventMetro
Emma Watson's making magic with her eco-styleThis is London
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Fairtrade charity gets thumbs-up from politicians - The Paisley Daily Express
Fairtrade charity gets thumbs-up from politicians
The Paisley Daily Express
POLITICIANS have given the thumbs-up to a charity shop website which is promoting the Fairtrade movement. Staff at the Rainbow Turtle shop, in Gauze Street, ...
Cadbury hot chocolate drinks get a new look - Talking Retail
Talking Retail
Cadbury hot chocolate drinks get a new look
Talking Retail
This September, the number one Hot Chocolate brand, with 41% market share, is revamping its top selling Cadbury Drinking Chocolate, Cadbury Instant ...
Investment opportunities in soft commodities - Interactive Investor
Investment opportunities in soft commodities
Interactive Investor
As investors increasingly search for alternative portfolio components to the traditional bonds and equities listed on established stock exchanges, ...
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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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