Its premise is that traceability is one of the greatest tools for impacting sustainability. If traceability is going to develop, it has to either be mandated or carry its weight via a value proposition.Last week, the UN Global Compact and Businesses for Social Responsibility (BSR) released a sustainability guide. BSR is a coalition of more than 250 companies that maintains offices around the world for the promotion of corporate commitment to sustainability. Members in the agri-food space include Altria, Anheuser-Busch, Fromageries Bel, Starbucks, Sodexo, Coca-Cola, Campbell Soup, Wendy's, Chiquita, PepsiCo and others. The UN Global Compact is a similar coalition that combines both policy and operations standards for companies on sustainabil...
Key Takeaways: Dry bulk markets remain mixed with Capesize vessels seeing continued pressure from weaker demand while fixtures and rate strength gradually increases towards the smaller vessel classes. Tanker markets are pulling back from their recent highs as tonnage moves out of the Mid...
From WPI Consulting
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.