Insights and Stories on Grapes

French co-op InVivo plans U.S. wine deal, more food shops

Dec. 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm CST

Paris | Reuters –– French agricultural group InVivo is looking to acquire a wine distributor in the U.S. and could open up to 200 food shops in its home market as part of plans to double in size within a decade, InVivo’s CEO said on Tuesday. InVivo entered the wine […]

Dow-DuPont talks driven by weak farm demand, investor pressure

Dec. 9, 2015 at 10:31 am CST

By Sneha Banerjee Swetha Gopinath

Yara to buy Agrium fertilizer upgrading plant

Dec. 7, 2015 at 3:52 am CST

By Staff

Japan, White House rule out re-opening TPP pact

Nov. 10, 2015 at 8:19 pm CST

By Reuters

MacAulay favours TPP deal, poised for trade fight with U.S.

Nov. 10, 2015 at 3:39 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

Canada to review TPP pact, seek public input

Nov. 5, 2015 at 7:15 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada’s new Liberal government will review a landmark Pacific trade deal negotiated by the outgoing Conservatives and wants public input on the accord, Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday. Some Canadian dairy farmers and auto workers say their jobs could be threatened by the 12-nation Trans-Pacific […]

By Reuters

Pete Luckett’s stores to become arm of Sobey’s

Oct. 31, 2015 at 3:31 pm CDT

A hero to foodies across Canada is set to sell his retail and wholesale grocery businesses in Nova Scotia off to grocery giant Sobeys. Pete Luckett, the owner of the Pete’s Fine Foods stores in Halifax and Bedford, N.S. and a related wholesale business, announced Thursday he’ll sell those operations […]

By Staff

Most of farm file’s handlers to return to Commons

Oct. 20, 2015 at 6:10 am CDT

Most federal parliamentarians with experience in the agriculture and agri-food portfolio will be back in the House of Commons under a new majority Liberal government. As of Tuesday morning, prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected or leading in 184 of 338 seats, for a decisive majority following Monday’s federal […]

By Staff

Bayer expects to compensate grape growers over crop damage

Oct. 15, 2015 at 3:26 am CDT

Zurich | Reuters — Bayer expects to pay wine growers compensation starting early next year after vineyards in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland reported 2015 crop damage possibly linked to one of the company’s fungicides. European grape growers reported deformed leaves and lower yields after using Bayer CropScience’s […]

By John Miller

Treasury Wine to buy Diageo U.K., U.S. wine assets

Oct. 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm CDT

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia’s Treasury Wine Estates, the world’s biggest standalone wine maker, said Wednesday it had agreed to buy most of Diageo Plc’s U.S. and British wine operations for US$552 million (C$716 million). Treasury also announced a fully underwritten rights issue to raise around A$486 million (C$460 million) […]

By Reuters