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Hefty Allegations Against Pepsi over Price Rigging by the FTC
š And Brazilian Orange juice exports set for another decline amid weak demand.
Jan van Iperen
January 23, 2025
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For years, Pepsi has disadvantaged retailersāranging from large grocery chains to independent, local convenience storesāwho compete with one of its largest big box customers by consistently giving that favored large, big box retailer customer key benefits and advantages, such as promotional payments, while denying those same benefits to its competitors, the FTCās complaint alleges.
With plans to expand beyond Europe, FBCA said it is aiming to work beverage carton manufacturers and their paperboard suppliers in ādriving sustainable packaging solutions that enhance food security, reduce waste, and advance low-carbon circular economiesā.
At CR Beverageās Yixing plant and Chengdu plant, Sidel installed three high-speed aseptic complete lines featuring the Aseptic Combi Predis FMa for tea and plum juice and Aseptic Combi Predis Fmac for all high and low acid products and carbonated drinks with 28 and 38 bottleneck. The one at its Chengdu plant is equipped with four EvoDECO labellers and conveyors. The lines are now producing 54,000 bottles per hour (bph) for 450ml format and 27,000 bph for 1L.
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Officials in South Africa, the worldās biggest exporter of citrus after Spain, discovered bud rot in commercial papaya orchards in two provinces and warned farmers to exercise caution when moving plants to stop the spread. The agriculture department reported that it found the pathogen thatās also known as gray mold and is capable of destroying thousands of hectares of various species including pineapple and citrus, in both the northernmost Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces.
In market year (MY) 2024/25, total citrus production in Mexico is expected up by 4 percent versus the previous year, driven primarily by the increase in lime production. Fresh orange production is projected up only marginally due to unstable environmental conditions such as prolonged drought, high temperatures and erratic rainfall in the main producing regions. Post's forecasting for MY 2024/25 reflects producer expectations of improved environmental conditions that will aid in tree recovery and produce higher quality fruit. Orange juice production will increase following several years of lower production due to fruit quality issues. More favorable conditions helped to obtain better quality fruit through the latter half of MY 2023/24 and producer sentiment and market demand remains positive for MY 2024/25. Exports of fresh citrus fruit are projected to remain stable for fresh oranges and grow moderately for fresh lemons/limes.
The final batch of frozen orange juice from Brazil before the Chinese New Year was transported by train from Shenzhen's Yantian Port in South China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday,heading to Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi Province for processing, the Global Times observed at Yantian Port.
The final batch of Brazilian orange juice for the Spring Festival arrived in China on Tuesday. Since November, 110 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) have been shipped from SĆ£o Paulo to Yantian Port and then transported to Ganzhou for processing, adding exotic flavors to Chinese tables, a supplier representative told the Global Times.
On the surface, Xinhui is just your average sleepy district in a āthird-tierā city in China. Yet every year, over the fall and winter months, its streets fill with a unique fragrance that hints at its ancient history ā and a bright future: drying tangerine peels, or chenpi. For residents, itās the smell of gold. In fact, the word for ātangerineā in Cantonese, the local dialect, is pronounced the same as the word for āgoldā ā āgam.ā And just like the precious metal, some of those peels can be worth enormous amounts of money.
High prices, which weigh on global demand for orange juice, are not the only issue. Structural changes in importing markets are also contributing to the decline, said AndrƩs Padilla, an analyst in the Research and Sectoral Analysis Department at Rabobank Brazil.
He cited Europe as an example, where demographic shiftsāfewer children per family and an aging populationāare reducing juice consumption. Additionally, competition from other beverages, such as tea, coffee, and mineral water, has increased.
š¬ Research Worth Reading
Experimental findings on a citrus leaves dataset reveal a remarkable 99.6% accuracy in classification. The newly introduced framework surpasses current techniques, providing a reliable and adaptable approach for identifying diseases in citrus cultivation. This advancement holds promise for enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of agricultural processes, showcasing the potential for improved crop management and disease prevention in the citrus industry.
The study has shown that by decreasing the carbon to free amino nitrogen ratio could enable enhancing the water-holding capacity of bacterial cellulose, exhibiting that the control of fermentation conditions could potentially enable tailoring the properties of the biomaterial for certain industrial applications. The bioactive, antioxidant and preservative properties of essential oils and polyphenols constitute the aforementioned products significant for a range of industrial applications within the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food sectors.