This is the nearest you'll get to "teach yourself to trade sugar". Shockingly expensive, but thoroughly comprehensive. Highly recommended.

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Product Description

It is very important for food businesses, scientists and policy makers to understand consumers of food products, in the case of businesses to develop successful products and in the case of policy makers to gain and retain consumer confidence. Consumers requirements and desires are affected by issues such as culture, age and gender and issues important to consumers nowadays such as diet and health or GM foods will not always be so significant. Therefore food businesses and policy makers need to understand consumers attitudes and influences upon them to respond effectively. Edited by two distinguished experts, this book is an essential guide for food businesses, food scientists and policy makers.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1698434 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 584 pages

Peter Baron, Executive Director, International Sugar Organisation, London.
Novices and old hands will find it a worthwhile guide to consult.

Peter Baron, Executive Director, International Sugar Organisation, London.
The editor has shown an experienced hand in bringing together highly renowned and authoritative authors.

From the Inside Flap
Sugar Trading Manual (STM) is set to become the leading information source for the sugar market and has been compiled from the contributions of some of the most senior and widely respected figures in the international sugar trade. STM will be invaluable for training purposes and for all those needing comprehensive information on the day-to-day workings of this complex international business.

The manual is divided into seven complementary parts. The first deals with the history of sugar and discusses the political nature of the commodity and how world trade has developed. The second explores the background of the sugar trade with chapters on current trade flows, costs of production, ethanol and alternative sweeteners.
The third looks at the heart of the physical trade with an examination of all the components that go into making the price of sugar. It also deals with the workings of The Sugar Association of London and The Refined sugar Association, how to set up a model for statistical analysis and the role of cargo supervisor. The fourth examines the detail of the workings of the futures and options market and the actors involved. The fifth deals with administration and management, covering risk management, payments, banking. The sixth examines government intervention and the place in the sugar trade of regional trading groups. Finally, the Appendices contain the ‘tool box’ for the sugar trade with examples of standard physical contracts and the rules of the New York and London futures exchanges.