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PepsiCo India has announced an investment of INR 12.66bn (approx. $151.7m) to build a new flavour manufacturing facility in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

Carlsberg’s operation in Kazakhstan has filed an appeal with a Russian court to overturn a ban on the brewer selling Baltika brands in the region.

Brown Gibbons Lang has this week announced the sale of two of its portfolio companies to two separate buyers, for undisclosed sums.

Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food has opened the country’s first Indo-Pacific Agriculture and Agri-Food Office in Manila, the Philippines.

In this instalment, we speak to Are Traasdahl, founder and CEO of Crisp, a platform that connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to provide real-time insights across the supply chain.

British vertical farming business Jones Food Company has opened its second vertical farm, JFC2, in Gloucestershire, UK. 

Mexican Coca-Cola bottler FEMSA has released additional information regarding its future capital allocation plans, with more than $20bn in investments.

Food service distributor US Foods has agreed to acquire IWC Food Service, a broadline distributor based in Cookeville, Tennessee, US.

Supermarket chain Aldi plans to invest more than £550m in expanding and further improving its store and distribution network throughout the year.

Ofi and Commodity Centre Group have partnered to create a cocoa bean warehouse terminal using green energy at the Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery service that deploys robots to deliver goods, has announced a $90m funding round.

Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU) has announced its decision to discontinue operations at its US bakery by mid-April.