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How weather may shape bakery ingredient prices in 2026 — with key recommendations on when to buy

01-08-2025

Megan Hidden

In recent years, bakeries and FMCG manufacturers have faced a growing challenge: climate volatility, which is now central to sourcing strategy. Extreme weather, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and unseasonal frosts have increasingly disrupted global agricultural supply chains, directly impacting the availability, quality, and price of core baking ingredients. While some categories like eggs and dairy remain […]

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Vesper Partners with Stable, Integrating Independent Price Benchmark for Enhanced Risk Management

09-04-2024

Ashley Kooter

Our partnership with Stable integrates Vesper's Pricing Index (VPI) into option contracts, revolutionizing supply chain risk management. Stay tuned as...

Mastering the Commodity Markets: Ben Tacken’s Journey from Grains to Global Energy Trading

05-04-2024

Ashley Kooter

In our latest episode of the Strong Source Commodity Podcast, we had the pleasure of welcoming Ben Tacken, the Global...

How to maintain a large and diverse supplier pool as an FMCG Procurement Manager – 5 Tips

03-04-2024

Megan Hidden

Discover essential tips for FMCG Procurement Managers to maintain a vast and diverse supplier network in our latest guide....

El Niño unlikely to have a significant negative impact on the total global vegetable oil production

26-03-2024

Megan Hidden

Our September outlook report mentioned that El Niño weather conditions would continue into 2024, potentially intensifying and concluding in spring....