The international food conglomerate Unilever, its supplier of vanilla Symriseand the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit formed a partnership to improve the livelihoods of 4,000 vanilla farmers in the Sava region of Madagascar.
Urschel Laboratories Inc. Valparaiso, Ind., promoted Rick Urschelto president/CEO from vice president of operations. Former president Bob Urschel will remain involved as chairman of the board.
Cargill’scocoa and chocolate business created three tools in its portfolio of Price Risk Services to help customers more easily manage price risk. CocoaPacer, CocoaPacer Cap and CocoaRange Cap are designed to help protect customers from volatility when pricing their cocoa ingredients.