Bloomberg The world’s largest maker of bulk chocolate is boosting production capacity in the Americas to meet rising demand from the ice cream industry. Barry Callebaut AG, whose clients include Nestle SA and Mars Inc., plans to increase factory capacity in the region by 15% in the next 18 to 20 months, said Steve Woolley, the company’s president for ...

  Bloomberg The US is stocking up on Brazilian orange juice after Hurricane Ian and disease devastated citrus groves in Florida, the top producing state for the popular breakfast beverage. Shipments to the US from the world’s top exporter are up 58% in the first four months of the season from a year ago, hitting a record 112,500 metric tons ...

Bloomberg Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.’s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost a month under tough restrictions intended to quash a Covid outbreak. Workers at the Foxconn Technology Group plant streamed out of dormitories in the early hours of Wednesday, jostling and pushing past the white-clad guards they vastly outnumbered, ...