Bloomberg The popularity of Beyond Meat Inc’s plant-based protein offerings isn’t just a threat for meat producers. Such meat-free alternatives and consumer trends shunning animal protein could also hurt demand at agricultural chemical makers and fertiliser companies, according to Alliance Bernstein. Nearly 60 percent of the world’s corn and 90 percent of the soy goes into animal feed, analyst Gunther …

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has set up a new website to double the number of global brands on its flagship online mall, taking an important step towards fulfilling its global ambitions. The e-commerce giant began offering an English-language portal on Tmall for the first time to entice more merchants from around the world to sell to Chinese consumers. Alibaba …

Bloomberg Shopify Inc’s biggest drop of 2019 shows the e-commerce stock is testing the limits of what investors are willing to pay for rapid revenue growth. The shares fell 8.9 percent in New York on Tuesday, their biggest drop since December 14, after more than doubling from the start of the year. That run-up created more than $25 billion in …