EBRO SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH THE JAPANESE COMPANY MARUBENI TO DEVELOP RICE PROJECTS IN ASIA

Ebro Foods and Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) signed a collaboration agreement today for the joint development of rice projects and generation of synergies in Asia. Marubeni will cooperate with Ebro for stable supplies of long-grain rice in Asia, especially Cambodia.
Through this agreement, both companies will expand their raw material supply channels and sales of their different products and brands in new geographical areas, using the logistics and commercial platforms that they each have in Asia, Europe, America and the Middle East.
Marubeni (www.marubeni.com) is one of the 5 largest Japanese trading companies and in food sector, one of the leading rice distributors in Japan. With a network of 119 offices in 69 countries around the world and a workforce of over 30,000 employees, it focuses its business in different sectors of food materials, food products, textiles, materials, pulp and paper, chemicals, energy, metals and mineral resources, transportation machinery, power projects and infrastructure, plants and industrial machinery, finance, logistics and information industry, and real state development and construction.