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Global Sugar Rebound

After hitting the lowest global sugar ending stocks in more than a dozen years, production is making a rebound. Production is expected to jump 6 percent to its highest level since 2017/18. While some of the rebound will go to the benefit of biofuel makers, most will go to human consumption. While this is to the chagrin of health experts or warn against its intake, sugar is integral to the food industry. First for its sweetness but for a variety of other attributes including serving as a preservative, a texture modifier, a fermentation substrate, for general flavoring, as a coloring agent, and a bulking agent. There are substitutes but not all are natural or as preferrable to consumers.  ...

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Infrastructure investment due diligence

On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.

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