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Sustainability
Anheuser-Busch InBev To Sell Chinese Beer Business For $1.6 Billion
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Shares in China Resources Beer soared as much as 30 percent after the Hong Kong-listed brewer announced on March 2 that it was buying the 49 percent of CR Snow it did not already own.
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Supply Chain Visibility
Featured In Food Logistics: Electronic Freight Security (EFS) – What To Expect
FreightWatch International
The January/February issue of Food Logistics offers a primer for the setup and implementation of an electronic freight security (EFS) program, provided by FreightWatch International, the logistics security division of Sensitech Inc.
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Ocean Container Trade Faces Historic Overcapacity
AlixPartners LLP
The most-recent forecasts expect global container fleet capacity to grow by 4.6 percent in 2016, and another 4.7 percent in 2017, though spot prices for major routes have dropped 21 to 44 percent from a year ago because of plunging demand.
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Target Corp. Taps Amazon’s Valdez To Oversee Supply Chain And Logistics
Arthur Valdez comes to Target from Amazon where he held leadership positions across the company’s global and domestic supply chain, including transportation, fulfilment and logistics.
In a move designed to reflect the changing tastes of Americans looking for healthier options, packaged and processed foods will get less optimal shelf space and promotional signage in its grocery aisles in favor of fresh food items.
Grocery Retail
Amazon Strikes Distribution Pact With Morrisons Supermarket In The U.K.
Amazon
Enabling the online retail giant to compete with Britain's biggest supermarket stores and smallest local shops, the deal marks Amazon's latest assault on a British market already buckling under the weight of fierce competition and rapid online growth.
Enabling the online retail giant to compete with Britain's biggest supermarket stores and smallest local shops, the deal marks Amazon's latest assault on a British market already buckling under the weight of fierce competition and rapid online growth.
Sustainability
United Natural Foods Inc. Acquires Haddon House Food Products Inc.
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)
Haddon is a distributor and merchandiser of natural and organic and gourmet ethnic products throughout the Eastern U.S.
United Natural Foods, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding stock of Haddon House Food Products, Inc. and certain affiliated entities as well as certain real estate, in a cash transaction for approximately $217.5 million.
Grocery Retail
European Food Retailers Expand Into Non-Food To Improve E-Commerce
To have a chance of turning a profit in grocery e-commerce, retailers need scale and they are more likely to recoup delivery costs if they can get shoppers to add higher margin non-food items to their shopping cart.
As Amazon encroaches on supermarket territory, traditional European retailers are taking bigger steps to fight the U.S. e-commerce giant by offering more non-food products and using extensive store networks as delivery hubs.
Transportation
Spot Load Volume Jumps 4.1% For Week; Rates Hold Firm
DAT Freight & Analytics
Falling national average spot rates leveled off compared to recent weeks, indicating the start of a possible rise heading into the Spring.
Falling national average spot rates leveled off compared to recent weeks, indicating the start of a possible rise heading into the Spring.
Warehousing
Whole Foods Market Invests In Instacart, Signs 5-Year Pact
The two companies have also signed a five-year delivery partnership, these people said, making Instacart the exclusive delivery partner for Whole Foods’ perishables business.
The $10 billion national grocery store chain is making an investment in the four-year-old delivery startup, according to multiple sources.
Cold Chain
A Fundamental Shift In Ocean Transport
Danish shipping and oil group A. P. Moller-Maersk could split up into separate companies, its chairman said on Thursday after naming Soren Skou, the head of its container business, as chief executive.
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Ready For A Rebound
The Midwest region still has its share of challenges recovering from the recession, but opportunity and availability for development exists.
One of the new bridges in downtown Louisville, the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge (on right), opened up for traffic just before Christmas allowing for traffic to use the new route while the existing John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge undergoes it’s $22 million renovation.
Regulations
Electronic Freight Security (EFS) — What to Expect
FreightWatch International
A primer for the setup and implementation of an EFS program.
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