Company News
Challenging year for BayWa agriculture
German conglomerate BayWa has reported increased full year 2019 earnings on higher revenues. But its agricultural activities, which include grain and feed material trader Cefetra, suffered from international trade disputes and weather. The Munich-based group has...
New chief for Fram Farmers
Suffolk-based agricultural supplies and crop marketing co-operative Fram Famers has appointed Andrew Knowles as its chief executive from the beginning of July. He replaces Richard Anscombe who left the business after nine years last September to start his own business...
GrainCorp completes United Malt demerger
Australian multinational grain trading and processing group GrainCorp has now completed the long running demerger of its malting interests. The demerger is expected to be effective from April 1st 2020. The new business, which will trade as the United Malt Group,...
Kynetec appoints Daniel Wirth CEO of merged market research Group
Global agricultural and animal health market research specialist Kynetec has appointed Daniel Wirth as chief executive of both Kynetec and the Kleffmann Group, the German operator in this sector that it acquired last December. Stephen Hearn, who founded the business,...
Precision beef production through data-driven app
An agritech business has launched a new data-driven tool that seeks to achieve better consistency in beef carcasses and minimise waste across the supply chain. Breedr, established in 2018 and registered in Chichester, was founded by Ian Wheal, who is from an...
Lower EU sales offset by exports for Anpario
Anpario, the UK-based manufacturer of natural feed additives, has reported a slightly lower profit on 3% higher sales from its latest full year’s trading. Growing export revenues, especially in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, offset reduced European sales....
