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A deep dive into CS Brazil
Carlos Murilo Barros de Mello holds a degree in economics from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and an MBA in international strategy from University of Sao Paulo. He has over 30 years of experience in the global agricultural commodities sector, notably in the sugar and ethanol business, having held senior management and directorship positions in some of the sector's leading players, in sugar mills, trading companies and investment bank. He is currently the Head of Sugar for the Americas at Hedgepoint, providing risk management solutions and market intelligence for commodity and currency players.
About Hedgepoint Global Markets
The purpose of Hedgepoint Global Markets is to help our clients turn financial risks into opportunities by strategically anticipating and responding to market movements. For this, we offer sophisticated products for hedging and protection against volatility for the global chain of agricultural and energy commodities, always based on the best analysis and market intelligence Studies. Hedgepoint is present on five continents, giving us the ability to connect the local needs of each sector to the global context while democratizing access to risk management. We execute hedging based on innovation, technology, and market insights, placing our clients at the center of the entire process, thus contributing to their success. Altogether, Hedgepoint works with over 60 different commodities, diverse currencies (FX), and more than 450 hedging products on our platform. All this is developed with a technological focus while providing the best experience in every process. You can contact the team at: https://hedgepointglobal.com/contact/ or marketintelligence@hedgepointglobal.com
Green Pool's look at Asia-Pacific supply & demand
About Green Pool
Green Pool provides an independent view of global sugar and biofuels markets through consultancy and market analysis. At Green Pool, we provide economic and market analysis to a select client base of growers, processors, consumers, government, investors, traders and hedge funds. We pride ourselves on being independent and privately owned. Our analyst team is comprised of a mixture of commercial practitioners and academics up to Masters and PhD level.
This means that in addition to having very broad, real world commercial experience, we can give totally independent advice – something that we feel is crucially important. Consequently, we are able to work closely with our clients to tailor solutions that fit their specific and individual needs and objectives.
EU + UK in 2025/26: What to expect
John Adams is the Director of Sugar Research at GlobalData, specializing in sugar market analysis and European market dynamics.
About GlobalData
GlobalData is a leading data & analytics company, helping over 4,000 of the world's largest organizations make better and more timely decisions. The business was formed in 2016, following the consolidation of several well-established data and analytics providers, with heritage leading back over 50 years. Today, GlobalData is a unique research and consulting business, with unparalleled insight into a wide cross-section of markets and industries.
GlobalData is the trusted, gold standard intelligence provider to the world's largest companies. The company has a proven track record in helping thousands of corporations, government organizations, and industry professionals profit from faster, more informed decisions.
Unique data: As the gold standard data provider to the world's largest industries, GlobalData continuously collect and analyse terabytes of data to create the most comprehensive, authoritative, and granular market intelligence.
Expert analysis: GlobalData leverages the collective expertise of in-house research analysts, consultants, and journalists, as well as thousands of external thought-leaders, to create differentiated and actionable insight. The company has 3,500 analysts across 25 countries worldwide to turn raw data into trusted intelligence.
Innovative solutions: GlobalData helps clients work smarter and faster by providing access to powerful analytics and customizable workflow tools, alongside direct access to our expert community of research analysts.
US sugar/sweetener market
Ron Sterk is senior editor, markets, for Food Business News and Milling & Baking News, and is the creator and editor of the Sosland Sweetener Report, the only newsletter dedicated to covering the domestic U.S. sweetener market. In addition to sugar, he covers a wide array of ingredient markets pertinent to grain-based foods and other food manufacturers. Prior to joining Sosland Publishing Company in 2003, he was involved in market coverage and management for several years at real-time news services. He has a bachelor's degree in agricultural journalism with a focus in agronomy and a minor in animal science from Iowa State University and a master's degree in business from Rockhurst University in Kansas City.
About Sosland Publishing
Sosland Publishing is a family-owned business-to-business trade publishing company founded in 1922 focused on delivering indispensable content to the food and pet food industries, including grain processing and wholesale baking, dairy processing, food manufacturing, meat and poultry processing, pet food processing, retail baking and supermarket. Sosland's products include nine magazines (in print and digital forms) along with related websites and e-newsletters, industry directories, the Sosland Sweetener Report (sugar and sweeteners), the Sosland Market Focus (cash wheat and flour) and the annual Sosland Purchasing Seminar (June) and Pet Food Processing Exchange (October). Many of Sosland's publications focus on operations and equipment, but include related industry trends, leadership changes, regulatory and trade information. In-depth ingredient and commodity market data, prices and news are collected and published for the grain-based foods industry, including sugar, cash grains, flour, edible oils, eggs, dairy, cocoa powder and others, mostly focused on the domestic U.S. market.
CovrigAnalytics' global sugar overview
Dr Claudiu Covrig is Founder and Lead Agriculture Analyst of CovrigAnalytics, an independent provider of market research, analysis, forecasts, supply & demand, trade flows and policy information for the sugar and ethanol markets. Claudiu's expertise includes market research, trade flows, forecasts, international arbitrages, futures and swaps trading combined with academic work focussed on management, economics and renewable energy markets and systems. He often serves as a speaker or chairman at international conferences. With over 18 years' experience, prior to founding CovrigAnalytics, Claudiu worked as a market research analyst and consultant with S&P Global Platts and Kingsman in Switzerland, and traded futures and swaps with Sucden in Geneva. He was also a research associate and university assistant professor in Switzerland and Romania. Claudiu has a PhD degree from Transilvania University of Brasov, with a focus on renewable and conventional energy markets and systems. In addition, he has a Master's degree in Engineering Design and Management of Renewable Energy Sources and a diploma in Economic Engineering.
About CovrigAnalytics
At CovrigAnalytics, we independently provide market research, information, analysis, studies and forecasts, for sugar and ethanol markets best reflected in our reports, data and consultancy services. The consultancy work is mainly focused in helping you to take good business, commercial and trading decisions, on your pricing strategy, investments, sales and purchasing programs, on your physical and futures positions, on market movements and forecasts.
India's 2025/26 sugar policy: What to expect
Kiran Wadhwana is Director of Comdex India. With over 38 years in the sugar industry, Kiran has considerable experience in farming, manufacturing and trading. He has served on the Executive Committee of ISMA as well as the Board of Indian EXIM Corporation. Currently, Kiran is on the Board of Bonsucro and a Senior Advisor to International Sugar Organisation. He has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Houston and an MBA from the Stephen M Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Investments in Africa
Nick Kwolek is the founder and managing director of Kulea, a tech company focused on commodities in Africa, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Kwolek established Kulea in 2022 to address gaps he identified in the commodities market during his 14-year career trading sugar for major trade houses and producers. Kulea aims to revolutionize the commodities sector by leveraging big data and machine learning to provide high-quality trade-focused research and brokerage services in regions where accurate intelligence is hard to find such as Africa and the CIS. Kwolek's work has positioned him as a prominent figure in the African commodities market, where he continues to innovate and provide valuable insights and tools for industry stakeholders.
About Kulea
Kulea is the multi commodities intelligence platform for data scarce regions around the world, and caters to the entire commodities value chain, from traders to banks, insurance companies, manufacturers, logistics providers and more. With offices in Nairobi (Kenya), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), and London (UK), Kulea is on the ground in regions where data intelligence is otherwise difficult to collect, let alone accurate. Kulea is a proven platform for leading companies in the commodities industry, giving them actionable commodity insights, such as real-time price and import parity calculations, vessel line-ups and port waiting times, country commodity balance sheets, trade flow mapping, as well as best in class real time commodities trade risk management through its trading tools. Please contact our team via phidis@kulea.com or send a WhatsApp message to +254 728292929
World sugar weather risk outlook through early 2026: Impact of climate drivers on the seasonal outlook for weather trends and risk for global sugar production
Kevin Marcus's professional career as a commodity weather consultant spans 40+ years. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Meteorology from Penn State University in 1980 and a Master's Degree in Agronomy from the University of Maryland in 1986. He joined Earth Satellite Corporation (now Maxar Weather Desk) in 1980 and spent the first 20 years of his professional career with the commercial services group known as Cropcast.
About Marcus Weather
Kevin formed Marcus Weather services in 2001 exclusively for commodity hedge funds and food processors seeking an edge in their trading and hedging. The service leverages a privately developed multi-million dollar weather data base designed exclusively for commodity weather analysis. Clients have come to rely on Marcus Weather's services to anticipate weather changes and new weather narratives and their anticipated impacts on price and supply to gain a competitive edge.
CS Brasil sugar & ethanol estimates for the 2026/27 crop
Graduated in Economic Sciences from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Marcelo has been part of StoneX's Market Intelligence since 2021, covering Sugar and Ethanol markets for 3 years, and leading global sugar S&D analysis. Email: marcelo.bonifacio@stonex.com | +5516991573083 (WhatsApp)
About StoneX
StoneX was born more than 100 years ago from cooperativism, to help individuals and businesses navigate markets safely. Today, we are a global strategic financial services company, with a presence in over 70 offices around the world, connecting more than 300,000 clients in 180 countries, achieving their goals with market intelligence, risk management, and financial solutions. StoneX's Sugar and Ethanol Market Intelligence division offers tailored and subscription-based services designed to empower decision-making. Our insights combine key market fundamentals with deep sector analysis to help you stay ahead.
Shifting ground of EU sugar market
Gabrielle Del'Arco is the Manager of Data Research & Analytics at Vesper, where she advances the commodity intelligence platform and delivers timely market updates on sugar and ethanol derivatives. With over seven years of experience, Gabrielle has been a key contributor to global and regional sugar market analysis since 2017.
Prior to Vesper, she spent more than five years at a leading sugar producer, acquiring extensive industry expertise. At Vesper, Gabrielle integrates field insights with data-driven analysis to provide clear, objective market intelligence that supports decision-making across the sugar and ethanol sectors.
About Vesper
Vesper (www.vespertool.com) is a leading commodity intelligence platform. It simplifies complex data into actionable insights, benefiting commodity buyers, sellers, and traders. With real-time information encompassing pricing, production, import/export, and more. Vesper empowers users to save time, enhance negotiation capabilities, and make informed decisions. Notable for its proprietary Vesper Price Index and AI-driven forecasts, Vesper has expanded beyond dairy, serving 2000+ users across diverse industries. You can can reach Gabrielle by email: gabrielle@vespertool.com
Forecasting Thailand's 2025/26 sugar production
Rob Weston has over 20 years of experience in data analytics and more than a decade building Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for investigations and risk management. He has worked on high-profile global matters—including a U.S. presidential election, counter-terrorism operations, and major criminal investigations—using data to uncover critical insights. As a former Managing Director at KPMG, Rob led the development and deployment of AI and analytics systems for global banks such as HSBC, Rabobank, and JP Morgan. He is now the founder of HSAT, where he uses data and machine learning to forecast crop yields and identify agricultural risk at scale.
About HSAT
HSAT provides advanced crop intelligence and forecasting, predicting planted area, yield, and production months before harvest. Their platform CropGPT combines a wide array of data sources—including satellite imagery, weather data, and macroeconomic indicators such as fuel prices and foreign exchange rates—with insights from a unique global ground team of over 2,000 field surveyors. This integrated approach allows HSAT to identify not only where crops are grown, but also assess their quality and detecting disease – these helps clients make informed decisions across supply chains, trading, and procurement – as well as improve the prediction.
Global consumption outlook: Direct vs. industrial consumption
Pedro Arruda is an Economist at the International Sugar Organization (ISO), an intergovernmental commodities body headquartered in London with 85 member countries. Since 2016, he has been responsible for economic and policy analysis of the world's fuel ethanol markets. His expertise extends to diversification strategies for sugarcane and sugar beet industries, including bioplastics, biochemicals, and bagasse-based energy cogeneration. Pedro also focuses on emerging bioenergy innovations such as Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and holds an MSc in Development Economics from King's College London.
About ISO
The International Sugar Organization (ISO) is an intergovernmental entity that promotes global cooperation in the sugar industry. It addresses challenges and fosters stability and sustainability in the global sugar market. The ISO enhances market conditions through debates, analyses, studies, statistics, seminars, conferences, and workshops. It provides extensive data on production, consumption, trade, and stocks worldwide.
Deep dive into EU+UK sugar politics
Julian is an international sugar trade analyst with more than thirty years of experience in sugar trading and broking gained at ED&F Man between 1987 and 2018 in a variety of roles and elected for eight consecutive years as President of the European Sugar Traders' Association "ASSUC", comprising sixty sugar trading companies in Europe. His work has permitted him to travel widely and to learn first-hand about the sugar industries in European, African, Caribbean, Asian and Pacific countries and to liaise with people at every level throughout the value chain, from ships' crew, farmers, warehouse managers and clerical staff, to chief executives, high ranking officials and government ministers. Today, Julian is Executive Director of the ACP/LDC Sugar Industries Group "ACP Sugar", and an independent sugar trade analyst he works to bring ideas, expertise and market insights to food industry professionals.
About Julianprice.com
Julian monitors EU and UK sugar trade news which you will find available on this website or via an RSS feed. Official data relating to sugar trade flows, sugar production, sugar import quotas and the like are regularly updated and visualized using Microsoft Power BI ™.
Is sugar overbought or oversold?
Arnaud began his career as an FX and interest rates trader in banking before joining the sugar industry in 2013, where he managed an intertrade brokerage desk across various global markets. Noticing the lag in digitization within commodities compared to financial products, he founded The Deepcore in 2017 to enhance brokerage efficiency and leverage data. Arnaud is passionate about new technology, digital platforms, big data, and quantitative analysis. He regularly engages with brokers and traders to diversify offerings and create value for both traders and quantitative analysts.
About The Deepcore
The Deepcore is one of the leading Physical Sugar Brokerage house which provides liquidity worldwide on a wide range of sugar regions. Thanks to our global and strong presence with our 3 sugar brokers, we deliver to Traders & Financial Institutions the most accurate prices datasets with no lag, through our online platform & API
- Monitor daily physical Sugar prices worldwide with no lag
- Data sourced directly from the market without intermediary
- Eliminate the need to wait for third-party information.
- You can reach the team here: https://thedeepcore.com/
Expana/TRS's sugar market outlook
Rodrigo Bermejo has over 10 years of expertise in the sugar and ethanol markets. Currently a Senior Manager at Expana. Rodrigo has his career focused on sugar and biofuels, from 4-years sugarcane field-research work to roles at COFCO International as Sugar & Ethanol Research Manager and at Alvean as Trading Intelligence Coordinator. Rodrigo's current role involves helping Expana's clients shaping strategies for the sugar industry using his experience with crop forecasting, global supply and demand dynamics and market-related factors such as trade flows and consumption.
About Tropical Research Services (TRS)
Tropical Research Services ("TRS") collects, collates and analyses, research and data as to a variety of tropical commodity products, including coffee, cocoa, sugar, cane ethanol, tropical oils and tropical grains and oilseeds. Tropical Research Services generates a significant information advantage as to the outlook for the forward supply and demand of tropical commodity products; a valuable resource for those deploying portfolio management and hedging and procurement strategies, in the otherwise opaque world of tropical commodity products information. Tropical Research Services is differentiated by its exclusive field-team operations and its extensive historical data-base of tropical commodity product metrics. Field-teams are comprised of skilled agronomists, counters and drivers, located in the key tropical commodity producing regions. Tropical Research Services performs its desk research out of its Connecticut, Brazil, London, Ghana and Bangalore offices.
Pakistan, water & sugarcane: Is it sustainable?
Ghasharib Shoukat is a researcher focused on policy implementation and social reform currently serving as the Head of Product at Pakistan Agriculture Research (PAR) and CEO/Co-Founder at Zarai Mandi, a B2C WhatsApp Market Data Provider started at the National Incubation Center Faisalabad (NICF) in 2022. He is an alumnus of Bates College and SOAS and can be reached at ghasharib@par.com.pk
About Pakistan Agriculture Research (PAR)
Pakistan Agriculture Research (PAR) is an agri think tank on a mission to provide agricultural data to players across the agri supply chain. PAR covers the market mechanisms of major crops of Pakistan and prepares efficient digital data services that connect B2B players directly to the agriculture information they need from Pakistan. PAR was founded in 2011 by seasoned commodity trader, Rehan Shoukat, to increase agricultural data transparency and efficiency across the board.
Email: contact@par.com.pk | +923089333445 (WhatsApp) | Linktree: https://linktr.ee/par.com.pk
Insights into the African sugar market
Ana Vettorazzi is a Research Analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights, based in London, UK. She holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. At S&P Global Commodity Insights, a provider of data, analysis and insights across different commodities, from energy to agriculture, she contributes to delivering insights that shape decision-making in sugar and cocoa markets.
About S&P Global Commodity Insights
S&P Global Commodity Insights brings transparency to the global sugar markets through a unique mix of fundamentals, news and prices reports, powered by S&P Global Platts robust methodology and tailored to your specific needs. You can reach out to them by email: ci.support@spglobal.com