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PepsiCo has launched its first organic product in Brazil, Toddy Organico hot chocolate drink. The product is made from domestically produced organic cocoa and sugar certified by IBD Certifications. The label for the product is made from recycled paper, certified by the Brazilian Forestry Stewardship Council.

Organic Monitor Comment
PepsiCo is applauded for entering the organic food market with locally sourced organic ingredients. By using indigenous ingredients, the company is creating domestic demand for organic products. Most organic food production in Brazil and neighbouring Latin American countries is for export markets. By developing local organic food products, organic farmers become less reliant on foreign trade.

Related Report: #7002-40 The Global Market for Organic Food & Drink 

Source: Esmerk Brazil News / Organic Monitor

Canadian natural food company SunOpta has entered an alliance with Specialized Protein Products (SPP) through its wholly-owned subsidiary SunOpta Africa.

The deal will see SPP make and sell liquid and powdered soy ingredients and soymilk beverages in Africa and other international markets.

The deal provides SunOpta with an increased supply of soymilk products and a logistics network to help it to compete in world markets for natural and organic soy-based products.

The SPP facility, located in Potchefstroom, South Africa, is a manufacturing facility with capacity of over 200,000 liters of concentrated soymilk per day and capable of producing 20 metric tons per day of soymilk powder.

In a joint statement, Allan Routh, president of the SunOpta Grains & Foods Group and Peter Golbitz, director of international business development in the SunOpta Grains & Foods Group, said: "We believe this relationship will add value to the food and agricultural processing industry in South Africa and serve to improve quality and nutritional attributes of food products in the region.

"In hand with this, the first-class infrastructure, lower production costs and enhanced reach that South Africa gives us for exports should help make these products competitive internationally and allow us to continue to grow our global foods business," they added.

The SunOpta Grains & Foods Group have started the sale of liquid and powdered products from the South African venture and expect sales to grow over time to in excess of US$15m.

Organic Monitor Comment
This is another example of an organic & natural products company investing in developing countries. SunOpta has made several such investments in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The Canadian company is becoming well-established as a global supplier of organic ingredients.

Case studies of investment projects in developing countries will be given in the upcoming Sustainable Foods Summit. The summit takes place in Amsterdam on 10-11th June 2010. More details

Source: AROQ / Organic Monitor

French organic ingredients company Greentech has set up a new factory in Tarapoto, in northern Peru.

The plant’s jungle location is closer to Greentech’s Inca inchi crops, which the company hopes will help it meet growing demand for its certified organic Inca inchi oil. Greentech also says the new plant's proximity will enable the production of new cosmetic actives extracted from Inca inchi seed cakes.

Greentech’s activities in Peru include its Omega Project, set up in collaboration with Peruvian company Agroindustrias Amazonicas in 2003, which has contributed to the economic development of producers from local villages around the plant.

Sustainable Cosmetics Summit
Ethical sourcing and sustainability will be featured in the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit, taking place in New York on 24-26th March 2010. Case studies will be given of companies who successfully met the ethical and ecological challenges in the beauty industry.

More details are on www.sustainablecosmeticssummit.com

Source: Cosmetics Business / Organic Monitor