Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Saudi Arabia’s Almarai Dairy has seen its last quarter of 2020 sales drop by 46 percent but profits for the period were up by 7 percent. Profit growth was due mainly to increased margin on export business to Egypt, Jordan and other regional countries. The company also has poultry interests and this area showed profit growth of 30 percent. Abu Dhabi is to construct a new grain storage and processing facility in Khalifa port. The facility is planned to have 300,000 MT of grain storage. The facility will be built by Anchorage Investment and managed by National Feed and will be on land leased for 50 years from Abu Dhabi Ports. Once completed it will produce wheat flour...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.