Storage & Warehousing
Openfield back in the black
Arable marketing co-operative Openfield Group has returned to profit after the previous year’s loss. The farmer-owned grain marketing and inputs supplier has reported a pre-tax profit of £400,000 on revenues of £628 million in the year ended June 30th 2018, compared...
read moreKIWA retains TASCC audit for another four years
The AIC has chosen the Kiwa Agri Food certification body to run its Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops (TASCC) for the next four years. Kiwa currently holds the TASCC contract - the scheme is designed to protect the food industry from contamination between...
read moreABCD investigate digital trading
The world’s four largest agribusinesses are collaborating over a project to increase the efficiency of transactions needed to ship agricultural commodities around the world. ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus – the ABCD of global agriculture, say they are “turning...
read moreThree southern grain storage co-ops merge into Trinity
The merger of three co-operative grain store businesses in the south east into a single company is complete. Trinity Grain will merge the interests of the 60,000 tonne Hampshire Grain central store located at Micheldever near Winchester; Ridgeway Grain with 56,000...
read moreAngus Cereals in receivership
Directors of Angus Cereals, one of the UK’s newest grain storage co-operatives, have called in the receiver. The Montrose-based business went into administration on July 12th 2018, with Iain Fraser and Tom MacLennan, partners at FRP Advisory, acting as joint...
read moreCefetra relocates to Rosyth agri-hub
Grain and feed materials trader and importer Cefetra has agreed a long-term contract with Forth Ports to use the Port of Rosyth, in a move designed to grow its UK business. Cefetra generates annual revenues of some £800 million through handling around 4m tonnes of...
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