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Software Solutions

Infor To Acquire GT Nexus For $675 Million

Approximately 25,000 businesses rely on GT Nexus, including six of the top 10 logistics service providers and 30 global financial institutions, all managing more than $100 billion in goods each year using its cloud-based business network.

Alibaba Invests $4.5 Billion In Logistics

The deal is the latest in a wave of big spending in China by Alibaba and its rivals as they compete to hook up China’s masses of smartphone users with services ranging from food delivery to movie ticketing to hitching rides.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Tacoma And Seattle Ports Launch Northwest Seaport Alliance

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The Northwest Seaport Alliance unifies the two ports’ marine cargo terminal investments, operations, planning and marketing to strengthen the Puget Sound gateway and attract more marine cargo to the region.

Failed US Foods Merger Costs Sysco $430 Million

Chief Executive Bill DeLaney said Monday that after a year-and-a-half of investing time and money into integration efforts for that planned deal, Sysco has shifted its focus to smaller acquisitions, internal cost-cutting and updating its technology.

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How The FDA Trans Fat Ban Will Complicate The Food Supply Chain

The FDA’s decision has the potential to significantly impact the business and legal needs of food manufacturers, suppliers and producers all along the supply chain.

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Food Industry Spokesman Supports Federal GMO Labeling Rule

The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, is a sensible solution to the need for labeling food containing GMOs according to the president of the Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance.

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Traceability in a Global Market

Food importers must adopt traceability solutions to ensure the health, safety and legality of the fish in their supply chains

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Electrification

Quiet Revolution: U.S. Farms Rapidly Adopt Self Driving Tractors And Data Gathering Technology

Data-centric companies with Silicon Valley pedigrees, like 2 1/2-year-old Granular and aerial surveillance startup DroneDeploy, that have the ability to tap into all this machinery and run farms as efficiently as Google runs its data centers.

John Deere has been selling self-driving tractors for 15 years.

U.S. Restaurant Chains And Retailers Support ‘Fair Foods Program’ To Help Farmworkers

Along with the penny premium per pound for tomatoes, growers must have zero tolerance for forced labor, child labor, and sexual harassment.

The population of towns like Immokalee, Fla., swells every winter when migrants and their families move here looking for work.

BluWrap Delivers China’s First Fresh Seafood Shipment From Chile

BluWrap’s technology is a strategic advantage to countries like China because it ensures food security from remote food sources while considerably reducing carbon emissions and the use of polystyrene.

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E-Commerce Solutions

China’s Internet Giants Harness Order/Delivery Apps To Battle Western Food Chains

Wooing customers with discounted dishes and the choice of thousands of restaurants, startups backed by the likes of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. are enjoying brisk business as more diners opt to order in.

The growing fleet of motorbike couriers on Chinese roads is the latest challenge to long-established but struggling Western companies such as McDonald’s Corp. and Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC and Pizza Hut outlets.

African Swine Fever Spreads To Estonia

African Swine Fever has been discovered on two more small-size commercial pig farms in Estonia, according to figures reported to the World Organization for Animal Health

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