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There is more than one way to brew coffee, the invigorating beverage brought to the world from Africa in the early 17th century. Currently, most of the coffee is brewed using three categories of machines: inexpen­sive household appliances, commercial equip­ment for bars and restaurants and fully automatic machines used in retail shops and offices.

As veganism becomes increasingly available in mainstream retail, consumers’ attention inevitably shifts towards how healthy a vegan product is. Brands should address this by reducing sugar and salt levels in processed vegan food, removing allergens and adding ingredients beneficial for the vegan diet, says GlobalData, the data and analytics company.

Royal Canin, the pet food manufacturer owned by Mars Inc., has started to roll-out FuturMaster’s cloud-based demand planning software as part of a supply chain initiative to standardise processes across the globe and improve efficiencies. The new technology, which has so far been deployed in the US, is expected to help manage the growing complexity of supplying the right products at the right time to over a hundred markets around the world.

Daifuku has been awarded a contract to supply warehouse automation to GA Pet Food Partners’ Ingredients Kitchen, a state of the art, high grade nutrition production facility at Bretherton Lancashire.

Granot Avocado, an Israeli cooperative of agricultural farms, selected the ZetesMedea shipping verification solution, to maximise efficiency and eradicate errors from its loading verification operations.

Informa's Agribusiness Intelligence is predicting global production of wheat will be down year on year in 2018.

Descartes Systems Group has provided essential Key Performance Indicators for drivers' hours for the independent farming company, Staples Vegetables to achieve the Driver and Vehicles Standards Agency's (DVSA) Earned Recognition accreditation.

DynaSys positioned the furthest for Completeness of Vision in the Challengers quadrant

By Duncan Moir, senior principal product manager at Epicor.

In the last ten years or so, the world has become more health and safety conscious with much greater focus on the nutritional and allergen content of our food. As a result, legislation on traceability and product labelling has become more complex and onerous.

TBSx3, the Australian start-up committed to restoring trust to international trade using blockchain technology, has partnered with leading Food Safety services group Alimentex to secure the future of food safety and reduce the impact of life threatening contamination.