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Partnering to return Indonesia to sugar self-sufficiency

Partnering to return Indonesia to sugar self-sufficiency

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Indonesia was once one of the world’s largest sugar producers. Until the 1930s, the economy of the islands was dominated by sugar plantations. The country exported almost 3m tonnes of refined sugar a year at the start of that decade.1 With the growth in...

Australia set for retail revolution with grocery e-commerce

By RJ Whitehead

Amid the growing rise of e-commerce across Asia, culminating in remarkable sales figures from last month’s Singles' Day in China, it is easy to miss the changing face of online grocery in the wider region’s more organised markets, such as Australia.