Heineken Romania, Ciuc and Golden Brau brewer, ended last year with turnover worth 896m RON (around 213m euros), up 9% in RON and down 5% in euros from the same period of the previous year. „As regards sales volumes, they followed the market trend in 2009,” stated Jan Derck van Karnebeek, general manager of Heineken […]
Macromex, the biggest frozen product distributor on the market, with 117m-euro turnover in 2009, will invest 8m euros in a plant in Campia Turzii, Cluj county, built in partnership with Belgium’s bakery and patisserie producer La Lorraine. The plant will be erected in Campia Turzii, in the same location where the company will start building […]
The Ministry of Agriculture is „prudent” about authorising the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO), minister Mihail Dumitru told Mediafax on Tuesday, mentioning that favourable endorsements will be issued only on the basis of „solid scientific evaluations” and by proving sure economic benefits.
All the eggs which are being sold on the market meet the health and safety standards, said Mihail Dumitru, the minister of Agriculture, quoted by Agerpres. The statements come following the information recently provided by the animal protection organization Vier Pfoten, which discussed the way egg-laying hens are raised in cages (batteries) and the eggs […]
Compulsory labelling of farm produce can ensure that consumers are fully informed on food quality and boost agricultural competitiveness, said the Agriculture Committee on Monday. Protecting EU geographical indications and traditional specialities from counterfeiting are also vital to promote and defend EU food high quality standards, it added.
Romanian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mihail Dumitru, on Monday participates, in the meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of the European Union, in Brussels. The meeting agenda includes the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, focusing on measures to be taken in market management after 2013. (Financiarul)
American farmers will harvest a record corn crop this year, but in part at the expense of wheat production, which will slump by 12%, the US Department of Agriculture has said. The USDA has pegged the corn harvest at 13.16m bushels, 200m bushels more than proposed earlier this month in its so-called baseline forecast.
Relative stability in grain markets has hit the performance of Associated British Foods’ agriculture business, leaving it on course for a drop in interim profits – unlike the rest of the company. The UK group said it all its divisions had achieved a „strong increase” in revenue in the year to February 27, helped by […]
The rally in cattle prices has further to run, driven by recovering demand for beef at a time of constrained supplies, Commerzbank has said, even as many gave US herd data a lukewarm welcome. Official statistics on Friday showed the decline in American cattle dynamics declining slower than many analysts had expected, with the number […]
Two thirds of eggs produced in Romania come from chickens raised in batteries with surfaces smaller than that of a sheet of A4 paper and often fed with genetically modified feed and synthetic vitamins, said Tuesday Gabriel Paun of animal protection organization Vier Pfoten.
