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lion) to acquire the milling company that controls 85% of the InThe government of Lesotho has GRQHVLDQ ÀRXU PDUNHW %RJDVDUL¶V
announced that a 200-tonne-per- mill in the capital city of Jakarta is
day maize mill and a 30,000-tonne- one of the largest milling plants in
capacity maize silo are to be built at the world.
a site in Maseru, Lesotho. The comBoth Indofood and Indocement
plex will hold stocks of both wheat are part of the Salim Group of comand maize in silos - to act as a buf- panies. Indocement will still have
fer against poor harvest and short- control of Bogasari, since it owns
ages of basic foodstuffs.
50.1% of the outstanding shares in
The mill operations produce Indofood.
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Just as the milling transactions
VXSSOLHV WKH FRXQWU\¶V WRWDO ÀRXU were being approved, the governneeds. The completion of the maize ment acknowledged that it was
mill represents a large step toward considering imposing a curb on
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near monopolies like Bogasari
The contract has been awarded to by ruling that no single company
Ocrim SpA., Cremona, Italy.
could control more than 50% of
an industry. Bogasari's monopoly
Prima Ltd., which is headquar- grew out of the government's estered in Singapore, has converted pousal of industrial development.
D ÀRXU PLOO EXLOW PDQ\ \HDUV DJR The move has led to expectations
in Sri Lanka to a feed milling and WKDW GHUHJXODWLRQ RI ÀRXU PLOOLQJ
trans-shipment business, according would open the market to imports
to Cheng Tsang Man, chairman and and new competition.
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The feed mill is operated by CeyMaple Leaf Foods, Inc., Canalon Grain Elevators Ltd., a public da's largest food processing comcompany listed on the Sri Lankan pany, has announced it will exit
Stock Exchange. Ceylon Grain El- ÀRXU PLOOLQJ 0DSOH /HDI RI¿FLDOV
evators intends to set up an experi- said the company's new managemental poultry farm for developing PHQWGLGQRWFRQVLGHUÀRXUPLOOLQJ
the poultry industry in Sri Lanka.
to be a core business and that "a
Prima Ltd. continues to operate plan will be developed to move out
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ma Ceylon, at Trincomalee, Sri LanSpeculation that Maple Leaf
ka. When it was built, the Sri Lanka ZRXOGH[LWÀRXUPLOOLQJDURVHGXUmill was the largest in the world as a ing the company's recent acquisisingle project under one roof.
tion by the Wallace McCain family
and the Ontario Teachers' Pension
1995
Plan Board.
Maple Leaf Mills, Inc. is operatThe purchase of Bogasari, the ed as a joint venture with ConAgra,
OHDGHU RI ,QGRQHVLD¶V ÀRXU PLOOLQJ Inc., Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. The
industry, by Indofood, a ranking business includes four Canadian
food manufacturing company with mills with combined daily milling
leadership in cup noodles, gained capacity of about 1,700 tonnes in
approval from Indofood's minority WHUPVRIÀRXUDQGDPLOODW%XIIDOR
stockholders in recent vote.
New York, U.S., with daily millIndofood will pay Indocement, ing capacity of about 1,350 tonnes.
the current owner of Bogasari, a ConAgra and Maple Leaf are equal
total of Rp1,800 billion ($809 mil- partners in the joint venture.
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The boards of directors of the
American Feed Industry Association
(AFIA) and the U.S. Poultry and
Egg Association (USPEA) agreed in
principle June 10 to co-locate their
respective trade exhibitions, beginning January 2007. Under the arrangement, the International Poultry
Expo (IPE) will devote space for a
separate and distinct feed industry
component as part of its annual exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
AFIA will explore opportunities
in developing and conducting educational venues in conjunction with upcoming IPE's. This will begin with
the sponsorship of a feed manufacturing program on Jan. 24, 2006 in
concert with the 2006 show.
"This partnership offers a number of synergies including increased
attendance, enhanced educational
opportunities and expanded marketing outreach for our respective exhibitors," said AFIA President Joel
Newman.

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Western Australia grain storage
and handling giant CBH has taken
more control over its controversial
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in Southeast Asia, injecting another
$19.5 million in the venture and putting a senior executive in charge.
The farmer co-op has lifted its
stake in the six mills in Malaysia,
Vietnam and Indonesia from 33.3%
to 50%, raising its initial $72 million
investment to $91.5 million.
CBH's former general manager of
strategy and business development,
Greg Harvey, will become chief exHFXWLYH RI¿FHU RI ,QWHUÀRXU ZKLFK
operates the mills. CBH acting chief
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in June the reason for the increased
investment in one of Asia's biggest
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as for the initial stake, to give growers greater control and participation in
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