Fresh from a $200-million fundraising, Campos family-led Del Monte Pacific Ltd. (DMPL) plans to streamline its operations in the United States, improve margins by exiting the nonbranded manufacturing business and focusing on its branded consumer business.   DMPL—which yesterday raised the curtain for the dollar-denominated securities (DDS) trading platform ofContinue Reading

With worldwide demand for chocolate outstripping the production of cocoa beans, the hunt is on for viable alternatives.   One of the possibilities is jackfruit, a large tropical fruit found in South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. In a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists report that compoundsContinue Reading

The road to Thimmamma Marrimanu leads through one of the driest parts of India. I picked it up in a town called Kadiri and drove another hour through camelback mountains and peanut fields. Granite boulders covered the brown landscape like a crumble topping. Nature had been stingy with the flora—saving up,Continue Reading