Mars has just raised the bar for local petcare manufacturing in Australia, and the scale matters as much as the symbolism. Its new cat food kitchen in Wodonga is designed to produce 290 million pouches a year, which is a serious signal about how far pet food demand has shifted. For FMCG teams, the commercial … Read more
Food waste usually starts as a quality problem, then shows up as a margin problem. AI sensors are now being positioned as one of the few tools that can spot spoilage early enough to stop product from being dumped unnecessarily. That matters for retailers and suppliers because the cost hits both sides of the shelf. … Read more
Speed, stability and certainty are now doing more work in FMCG procurement than they did a few years ago, and packaging is one of the clearest examples. For me, the packaging supply chain shift is less about ideology and more about buyers reweighting risk after years of freight volatility, port congestion and shipping delays. That … Read more
Brent crude moving above $97 a barrel is the kind of move that quickly filters through trading desks, freight costs and inflation expectations. For MENA investors, oil prices matter not just as an energy story but as a read on fiscal strength, sentiment and the region’s broader risk appetite. The latest oil prices move came … Read more
On a Monday morning in the Ramanagara Cocoon Market, the largest raw silk cocoon trading hub in Asia, a farmer named Manjunath from Channapatna taluk watches as his weekly harvest of bivoltine cocoons fetches ₹485 per kilogram — nearly ₹70 more than what he earned this time last year. He credits his local sericulture cooperative … Read more
Rice feeds more than 3.5 billion people every single day, yet almost nobody can name the farmer who grew it. Between the waterlogged paddy fields of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and the neatly packaged bag sitting under fluorescent lights in a London or Los Angeles supermarket, a supply chain stretches across thousands of miles and dozens … Read more
Record inventory draws of up to 12 million barrels per day in a single month would be extraordinary under any circumstances. When Goldman Sachs attaches that figure to April 2026, it reframes the entire supply conversation for energy investors across the Gulf and beyond. The investment bank has raised its fourth-quarter oil price forecasts, now … Read more