Heineken case enjoins Uganda and Tanzania complainants
KENYA – The Court of Appeal has allowed two firms who took up a distribution deal with Dutch brewer Heineken to join a contract case filed against it.
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Jul 14, 2017
KENYA – The Court of Appeal has allowed two firms who took up a distribution deal with Dutch brewer Heineken to join a contract case filed against it.
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SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa is set to regain its status as a net exporter of maize, after the drought of the past two years forced the country to import the commodity.
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NIGERIA – The federal government has in response to what it views as unsatisfactory general performance of operators in the sugar production sector in recent times, introduced new guidelines as well as putting in place benchmarks for raw sugar allocation.
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SOUTH AFRICA – Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, headquartered in New Orleans, US, will open in Sandton City next week, introducing another fried chicken brand to rival KFC.
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NIGERIA – Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has recorded a profit before tax of N5.5 billion for the year ended March 31, 2017, compared with a loss of N2.8 billion in 2016.
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IVORY COAST – Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, has sold 1 million metric tons of cocoa beans from its 2017 to 2018 main crop, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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SOUTH AFRICA – Despite revising South Africa’s soybean production forecast to 1.23 million tonnes in May, the Crop Estimate Committee has upped its forecast to 1.34 million tonnes – making this season’s crop the largest on record, the Agriculture Business Chamber (Agbiz) said in its latest newsletter.
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KENYA – South Africa-headquartered Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) announced on Thursday that it has concluded negotiations to acquire Equator Bottlers, the third largest Coca-Cola bottler in Kenya, for an undisclosed amount of money.
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ZAMBIA – Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has designated to sell 100,000 tonnes of maize from the national strategic food reserve during the 2016/17 season to create space for the commodity to be purchased later this year.
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ZAMBIA – Global Group of Companies has commissioned a US$60 million edible oil soya bean crushing processing plant in Ndola to enable its soya meal product to penetrate the export market.
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