Attempting to buy shares he doesn't own in Malaysia's Perlis Plantations Berhad, an edible oils conglomerate.

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Banning futures trading would do little to curb prices, especially for commodities like edible oils that are heavily imported.

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But then the price of the edible oils used in many of its products--the Achilles' heel of the food distribution business--started gyrating.

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Fouse notes finances in the meat industry are improving and demand for edible oils and biodiesel should help business conditions in the second half of the year.

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That 1993 merger combined Wessanen, a wholesaler of cocoa, flour and edible oils that had branched into consumer foods, and Bols, a spirits firm with a few strong Dutch brands.

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Despite spending his entire adult life in the U.S., Babar was still familiar with the Pakistani farm economy, thanks to his family, which owns the country's largest processor of grains and seeds and also includes flour mills, animal feeds, poultry farms and edible oils (canola, corn and sunflower).

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