By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Michael Tai, a key team member of Motif FoodWorks who headed up the development and scale up of the key ingredient heme in his role as head of Bioprocess, has left to launch Boston Bioworks – a new startup with the mission to advance fermentation processes and scale-up services […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media During the pandemic, the phrase “it’s a small world” became fitting when speaking of meat processing in the U.S. Being dominated by only four major meat packers – Cargill, JBS USA, Tyson, and National Beef Packing – made meat supply chains in the country significantly more vulnerable to unforeseen […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Mondelēz International announced its agreement to acquire Ricolino, the leading confectionery business in Mexico, from Grupo Bimbo for $1.3 billion. With four manufacturing facilities, 6,000 employees, and annual revenue of approximately $500 million, Ricolino produces and distributes a range of lollipops, marshmallows, chocolates, gunnies, and other confectionery products under […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Arotahi Agribusiness is managing the sale process for the largest redwood forestry estate in Australasia comprising more than 8,000 hectares (19,768 acres) of freehold land in New Zealand. Being divested by the New Zealand Redwood Company, the sale of this estate is being called a “once in a generation” […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Tabain family has engaged CBRE to manage the sale of the iconic Roseneath grain and livestock farm located in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area of New South Wales, with reported expectations of fetching AUD$38 million (US$28.2 million), or more. The property has been farmed by multiple generations of the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Where there is a change of ownership for the largest and most iconic agricultural assets in Australia, you’ll likely discover that Elders played a key role in making it happen. Just two recent examples occurred last year when Hancock Agriculture, the second largest producer of beef in Australia, and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Recently, Canada has seen its own version of a “crush rush”. Over the past year there’s been a “gold rush” underway in Saskatchewan, however, in this case, the term “gold’ refers to canola. In little more than a month’s time during the spring of 2021, three major companies announced […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ben Craw, managing director of Sydney-based Oxley Capital Partners, has been tasked by a European family office with the divestment of the ‘THF Portfolio’ – a 21,900-hectare (54,117-acre) beef cattle and irrigated fodder aggregation located in Central Queensland, Australia. Handling the sale, Oxley Capital Partners is an independent corporate advisory […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media The 13th annual Global AgInvesting flagship event in the United States kicks off today with a special optional golf tournament at the exclusive Sleepy Hollow Country Club overlooking the Hudson River, just an hour north of NYC. Running through Thursday, July 15, this highly-anticipated event convenes in-person, bringing […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was back in July 2018 that an anonymous writer using the pen name Rota Fortunae – Latin for ‘wheel of fortune’ (later revealed to be Quinton Mathews) wrote a defamatory attack against Farmland Partners (FPI) which was published on the financial website Seeking Alpha. This “short and distort” scheme […]
