Olam

Asian palm oil: limited supply
- FT
- 18 April 2011
Industry giants such as Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Olam and Wilmar International are scrambling for fresh space in equatorial Africa.
Gabon : Olam démarre ses palmeraies en octobre prochain
- AGP
- 13 Mar 2011
Le groupe singapourien Olam démarre en octobre prochain, un projet de 300 000 hectares de palmiers à huile. Le ministère de l’Agriculture lance une opération d’identification des populations rurales en vue de leur expropriation.
En pleine croissance, Sifca dope sa présence au Liberia
- Jeune Afrique
- 08 Mar 2011
Le géant agro-industriel ivoirien Sifca a réalisé à quelques semaines d'intervalle deux opérations majeures dans le caoutchouc (22 000 ha) et l’huile de palme (8 800 ha).
Who's really buying the farm?
- The Age
- 06 Mar 2011
Foreign investment in Australia's food chain is increasing at a rate that is causing concern, and not just for people on the land.
L'Afrique aiguise les appétits
- Jeune Afrique
- 03 Mar 2011
Fusions-acquisitions, achats de terres, coentreprises… Le continent attire des investisseurs venus de toute la planète, assurés d’y trouver la réponse à des besoins mondiaux en nourriture qui ne cessent d’augmenter. Tour d’horizon d’un grenier en devenir.
Cottoning on to foreign investors
- The Courier-Mail
- 24 January 2011
Olam executive sees good side to overseas investment in Australian farming.
Asia's hungry agribusinesses
- Barron's
- 08 January 2011
The global boom in commodities has raised the profile of three Asian agribusinesses: Olam, Wilmar and Noble, all with important farmland holdings.
Olam invests US$1.5b in Gabon
- Channel News
- 15 November 2010
Olam CEO says his company utilises political risk insurance from the World Bank and other sources for its agri-investments in Africa.
Olam to invest USD236 mln in palm oil plantations in Gabon
- Olam
- 15 November 2010
Gabon committs a land bank of 300,000 hectares to Olam for palm and rubber plantation development.
GM 'lesser of two evils': Olam
- The Land
- 04 October 2010
Mr Verghese says that Olam sees "sustainable value" in investing in agriculture, including farmland, and that GM crops are an inevitable "must".
Olam launches NZ Farming Systems counter-offer
- NZ Herald
- 24 August 2010
Olam International raised its offer for NZ Farming Systems Uruguay to 70 cents from 55 cents a day after the target company disclosed a third bidder is looking at the dairy farm develope
Gabon Government signs $4.5 billion accords on infrastructure, agriculture
- Bloomberg
- 15 August 2010
Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.