All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Food & Beverage

Hopefully, we will receive ideal weather the rest of the way and overall damage to the crops will be minimized.  But even if that occurs fairly inflated soybean and corn product markets are anticipated to persist and the chart below depicts one of the reasons why. 

Key concerns for Anheuser- Busch wholesalers   1) What long-term implications does this have for the current three tier system of distribution? 2) What is InBev's master plan for consolidation of existing wholesalers in the marketplace? 3) What will be Inbev's priorities be...

The May 27, 2007 sale of third-ranked Performance Food Group signals continued consolidation in the highly fragmented $226 billion foodservice distribution market. In an industry facing current challenges related to higher food inflation, higher diesel costs, and a consumer shift in discretionary...

-  This article does not mention stevia's taste profile, which is inferior to existing low-calorie sweeteners -  Mainstream US consumers look for taste/flavor first, "natural" is way down the list of attributes -  Large volume users of low-calorie/high-intensity sweeteners have known...

The choice boxed beef cutout has hovered at relatively inflated levels for roughly 8 weeks after trading at historically low levels earlier this year.  As noted in the Weekly Commodity Report, the USDA choice boxed beef cutout is anticipated to depreciate during the next few months. 

Wisdom Natural Brands (Gilbert, AZ) began shipping SweetLeaf tabletop sweetener to stores around the nation on June 2.  By being the first in the race for a good-tasting, natural and nationally available stevia-based tabletop, Wisdom Natural Brands (Gilbert, AZ) stands to establish itself as the...

There are opportunities for spirits and wines companies to capitalize on growing demand in developing countries, but this is not an overnight investment.  Most of the larger players have been involved in grass roots brand building for 10-15 years in China and they concentrate on one or two...

Besides being bearish for the dollar, bullish for exports and encouraging speculative investments into commodity futures; notably rising world crude oil demand may just very well be the precursor of what’s to come for world protein consumption.

Eleven peer-reviewed albeit company-sponsored scientific studies, accepted for publication this week in Food and Chemical Toxicology, signify a significant lead for Coca Cola and Cargill in the natural sweetener race.  The media will have much to say about the new sweetener and so will giant brands...

As reports of the food crisis reaches fever pitch, will there be new opportunities?