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Loblaw beats profit estimates as online sales surge

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 23, 2020

Reuters — Loblaw beat quarterly revenue and profit estimates on Thursday, driven by a near-fourfold jump in online sales, as stay-at-home Canadians used the retailer’s pickup and delivery services to stock up on bread, milk and eggs. With consumers still limiting their trips outdoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said it would invest […] Read more

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General, Machinery, Markets

Agri-food tech expected to be a post-pandemic growth industry

Ag, food sectors may seek out more e-commerce, labour-saving tools

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News May 11, 2020

Ottawa — A researcher at the University of Guelph says the COVID-19 pandemic will spark agility – particularly related to technology – in agriculture. “(The pandemic) has re-emphasized the need to get access to some of the technology that exists in other sectors and are not easily accessible in agri-food systems,” said Rozita Dara, an […] Read more

Crops

Probe eyes possibility of ‘co-ordinated behaviour’ in Big Ag

Competition Bureau probes majors' response to FBN's Canadian launch

By D.C. Fraser February 8, 2020

Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating leading agriculture companies for allegedly attempting to drive a California-based online farm-supply retailer out of the Canadian market. Documents filed in Federal Court show Federated Co-operatives, Cargill, Winfield United Canada, Univar Canada, BASF Canada Inc., Corteva and Bayer CropScience (and, by extension, Monsanto Canada) are all under investigation. Investigators with […] Read more

A Flipkart office in Bangalore in 2014. The e-commerce company, founded in 2007, began by selling books and has now branched out into a wide range of products. (VasukiRao/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Markets, Reuters

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

By Aditi Shah, Manoj Kumar May 10, 2018

New Delhi | Reuters — A day after U.S. retail giant Walmart struck its largest deal with a big ticket investment in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, a right-wing Hindu group that fears small traders will suffer staged a protest in New Delhi calling for the deal to be scrapped. Walmart said on Wednesday it would […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Markets, Prime cuts

China dangles carrots at U.S. beef industry

Prime Cuts with Steve Kay from the December 2017 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Steve Kay December 20, 2017

China is getting increasingly adept at dangling carrots to keep the U.S. at bay. Its latest carrot was to announce on November 9 that it had signed US$253 billion of business deals with U.S. companies. News reports quickly questioned whether the deals will turn into actual business. Buried in the massive total was news that […] Read more

General, Reuters

Loblaw cuts 500 jobs, plans to reinvest in e-commerce

By Nichola Saminather October 16, 2017

Toronto | Reuters — Grocery chain Loblaw Co. Ltd. is cutting about 500 jobs across the company, and plans to reinvest the savings into digital and e-commerce services, the company said on Monday. The job cuts, which began on Monday and make up 0.25 per cent of the Toronto-based company’s workforce, will apply to executive […] Read more

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

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Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

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Loblaw beats profit estimates as online sales surge

Agri-food tech expected to be a post-pandemic growth industry

Probe eyes possibility of ‘co-ordinated behaviour’ in Big Ag

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

China dangles carrots at U.S. beef industry

Loblaw cuts 500 jobs, plans to reinvest in e-commerce

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