Thai Foods Plc lays off hundreds
Thai Foods Plc terminated 20% of its entire workforce in late November. Chaipatr Srivisarvacha, chairman of the board, said the company has undertaken an organizational…
Tyson Foods buys Keystone Foods
Tyson Foods Inc has successfully completed the acquisition of Keystone Foods from Marfrig Global Foods. The deal involves eight plants and three innovation centres in…
China and US agree to temporary trade truce
Chinese president Xi Jinping and US president Donald Trump have agreed to not add additional tariffs “after Jan 1.” Mr Trump and Mr Xi agreed to keep…
Cargill to invest in the Philippines
Cargill will invest US$235 million to expand businesses in the Philippines over the next two years. The company said the investment would meet the increased…
Foot-and-mouth disease reports in Xinjiang hog farm
China’s agriculture ministry on Tuesday reported an outbreak of O-type foot-and-mouth disease in a pig farm in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region. The outbreak…
Thailand on full alert to detect African swine fever
African swine fever virus was detected at Chiang Rai airport in sausages carried by a Chinese visitor. The 800-gram sausages were tested by RT-PCR and…
Tyson bidding for BRF’s Thai, Europe assets
Tyson Foods Inc is among five firms still in the running for Asian and European chicken plants owned by BRF SA. The sale process is…
Thailand fights FMD with vaccination campaign
Thailand’s Department of Livestock Development will begin a foot and mouth disease vaccination campaign from December to January to contain an FMD outbreak in cattle….
Betagro Group in deal with Shwe Mè Group
Betagro Group and Myanmar construction material and logistics Shwe Mè Group have signed a deal to form a joint venture company named Betagro (Myanmar) Company Limited….
Thai layer producers to end egg glut
Sixteen major egg producers have agreed to reduce parent stock flocks and export excess eggs to shore up domestic prices to 2.6 baht each vs…