Thailand Food & Agriculture

Translating the notion of a knowledge- and creativity-based economy into practice.

S&P Syndicate, a leading local operator of restaurants and bakeries, plans to focus on expanding its overseas business over the next 10 years.

Khonburi Sugar will become the second sugar producer to list on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, issuing 176 million shares to mobilise funds for increased cane-crushing capacity and power generation.

TUF announced its 2011's first-quarter results today with year-on-year growth in sales by 49% in US dollar term and 39% in Thai baht term.

GFPT Plc, a listed integrated poultry producer, plans to invest 1 billion baht this year to set up new broiler and grandparent chicken farms to supply its joint-venture processing plant.

Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has identified India, Vietnam, Russia and the Philippines as its top priority markets for expansion in a five-year business plan.

Food prices are expected to rise on growing demand from catastrophe-hit Japan and more frequent natural disasters cutting the supply of ingredients.

Thai Union Frozen Products PCL. (TUF), Thailand's leading producer and exporter of canned and frozen seafood products, says that the promising outlook on its tuna and shrimp business has remained unharmed from the persisting problems over tuna and shrimp raw materials

With a series of natural disasters and political crisis that has happened globally during the past 12 months, we are urged to realise the fact that we live in uncertainty.

Radioactive contamination has been detected in udo - a type of Japanese vegetable -brought into Thailand by Japanese passengers. Thais are advised not to eat it, regardless of the source, the Food and Drugs Administration warned Thursday.