Vesper has launched Vesper for Excel, a powerful new integration that brings Vesper's live commodity intelligence directly into your spreadsheets. This feature eliminates manual data entry, allowing teams to spend less time maintaining spreadsheets and more time analyzing markets with real-time data feeding directly into the models and templates they already use.

What's New:

• One-Click Refresh: Update all Vesper data in your spreadsheets instantly. With a single click, you can access real-time prices, forecasts, FX rates, and fundamentals.

• Direct Data Access: Pull data from over 160 global sources directly into any cell in your spreadsheet.

• Native Integration: Vesper for Excel lives natively within your Excel, integrating seamlessly with your existing workflow and templates.

• No Coding Required: Perfect for procurement, finance, and sales teams who need live data in spreadsheets without any technical overhead.

Why It Matters: The time spent on manual data collection and entry is time lost on strategic analysis. Vesper for Excel automates this process, ensuring the latest market information always powers your most critical models. It shifts your team's focus from data maintenance to data-driven decision-making.

How to Use It:

1. Download the add-in from the Microsoft Excel marketplace.

2. Log in with your Vesper API Excel key.

3. Set up once by using the Vesper for Excel sidebar to choose the data you need (e.g., commodity, price type, date range).

4. Click "Refresh" at any time to update all data points in your sheet instantly.
   

How to access? Reach out to your customer success manager or [email protected] to learn more about the Excel Add-in or the various options to extract or integrate Vesper data directly into your workflows

What data? Vesper for Excel offers seamless access to Vesper's data:

• Vesper Price Index (VPI)

• Partner and Public price benchmarks

• Forecasts for Price, Production, and Stock levels

• FX rates

• Global trade data

• S&D/Fundamental data

• Stock levels
  

Summary: Vesper has launched Technical Analysis, a new forward-looking capability that translates complex market behavior into clear, actionable timing signals. Previously reserved for trading experts using specialized tools, technical analysis is now accessible to every procurement professional through simple, visual indicators. This feature helps teams identify optimal buying windows by analyzing price patterns and momentum, delivering straightforward signals that answer the critical question: "When should I act?"—no financial expertise required.

What's New:

• Three procurement-focused indicators that signal market timing without financial jargon

• Moving Averages show if prices are trending above or below "normal" levels

• MACD detects when price movements are accelerating or losing steam

• RSI identifies when markets are overheated or oversold, highlighting potential reversals

• Clean visual signals (green/red arrows + Interpreted text) that make complex analysis instantly understandable

Why It Matters: Fundamental data tells you why prices should move, but not when the market will react. Technical Analysis bridges this gap by revealing when markets start believing the fundamental story. In volatile markets where timing can mean the difference between saving and losing on purchases in volatile markets. These indicators help procurement teams spot early trend changes, identify optimal entry points, and avoid buying at market extremes, without requiring trading expertise.

How to Use It:

1. Add Technical Analysis to any dashboard by using the search function

2. View the summary panel showing all three indicators at a glance

3. Green arrows indicate upward pressure/momentum, red indicates downward

4. Click the extended view for in depth analysis of the indicators

5. Combine with Vesper's other forward-looking tools for complete forward looking intelligence

Related Features: Technical Analysis completes Vesper's forward-looking toolkit:

• AI Forecasting predicts where prices are headed (the "how much")

• Dashboard fundamentals explain market drivers (the "why")

• Market reports provide expert context

• Now Technical Analysis reveals entry point (the "when")

Summary: Vesper has launched Cost Models, a powerful new feature that transforms individual commodity benchmarks into complete product cost insights. This capability allows food manufacturers to combine weighted commodity benchmarks with standardized non-ingredient costs to build accurate product pricing models, delivering unprecedented visibility into true product economics.

What's New:

• Build complete product cost models by combining multiple commodity benchmarks with precise weightings

• Access industry-standard non-ingredient costs (labor, manufacturing, overhead) specific to your region

• Choose from our template library for common food products or create custom models

• Track how each component contributes to your total product cost with automatic updates whenever source prices change

Why It Matters: With record-high volatility across food commodities, understanding how ingredient changes impact finished products is critical for maintaining margins. Cost Models provide complete cost structure visibility for your entire organization: procurement teams can verify supplier price increases, finance can track margin impacts across product portfolios, and sales teams can justify price adjustments to customers with independently verified data. Non-ingredient costs can represent up to 47% of total product costs—a critical component that's now visible alongside your commodity benchmarks.

How to Use It:

1. Access Cost Models through the main dashboard menu

2. Choose between starting with a template or building a model from scratch

3. Select ingredients from your available commodities and assign precise weightings

4. Add country-specific non-ingredient costs by selecting your industry and location

5. Save your model to track cost evolution over time as prices update automatically

Related Features: Cost Models integrates seamlessly with Vesper's existing capabilities:

• Individual commodity price benchmarks (VPI, Partner prices, and Public benchmarks found in prices widgets)

• Incorporate into your own custom dashboards

• Coming in Q3 2025: Forecasting capabilities for your cost models

Summary: Vesper has expanded its oils & fats coverage with a new weekly Vesper Price Index (VPI) benchmark for Crude Shea Butter (FOB Tema) from Ghana. This proprietary benchmark, exclusive to Vesper, provides a reliable, independent price reference for an increasingly strategic commodity in food manufacturing.

What's New:

• Weekly VPI price benchmark for Crude Shea Butter

• FOB Tema delivery basis from Ghana—the world's largest shea butter exporting country

• Full integration with existing oils & fats dashboards and pricing tools

Why It Matters: As cocoa prices continue to surge, we've seen increased demand from our user base for alternatives like Shea Butter, which has emerged as a critical cost-effective substitute for cocoa butter. This exclusive VPI benchmark responds directly to user feedback, delivering essential price transparency for those seeking different compositions to limit the effects of cocoa volatility on end product applications. Having Vesper's independent benchmark helps verify supplier pricing and supports more confident negotiations during this period of volatility in cocoa markets.

How to Use It:

1. Find the new Shea Butter (Crude) benchmark in the pricing widgets section

2. Add it to the price comparison widget for side-by-side analysis with cocoa butter prices

3. Incorporate this benchmark into your custom cost models to evaluate how chocolate formulation costs change when substituting with shea butter

4. Monitor weekly updates to identify emerging trends and optimize buying decisions

Related Features: This benchmark complements Vesper's existing offerings:

• Cocoa butter price benchmarks

• Vegetable oil price benchmarks

• Cost modeling for ingredient substitution analysis

Summary: Vesper has expanded our biodiesel ticket coverage to include additional markets and vintages. This enhancement provides greater visibility into renewable energy certificate costs used for regulatory compliance across key European markets.

What's New:

• Daily biodiesel ticket prices now covering three European markets:

  • Netherlands

  • United Kingdom

  • Germany

• Coverage for both 2024 and 2025 vintages across all markets

• Multiple certificate types reflecting different feedstock categories

Why It Matters: These certificates represent a critical cost component for regulatory compliance in the transport sector. By tracking prices across different markets and vintages, users can better understand compliance costs, identify market trends, and develop more effective strategies in response to policy shifts and market dynamics.

How to Use It:

1. Find these prices in the prices widget in your dashboard

2. Search for specific certificates in the product dropdown

3. Use Vesper's analytical tools to compare prices across markets

Related Features: This expansion complements our existing biofuels coverage:

• Regular Biodiesel Market Report with expert analysis

• Comprehensive price coverage for biofuel products and feedstocks

• Energy price benchmarks

• Import/export/tradeflows for key biofuel products

Summary: Vesper has significantly expanded our European electricity futures coverage with the addition of comprehensive EEX data across 15 countries. This enhancement delivers detailed visibility into power markets throughout Europe, covering both base and peak load contracts across monthly, quarterly, and yearly timeframes.

What's New:

• 86 new electricity futures contracts covering:

  • 15 European countries including Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, and more

  • Base and peak load power contracts

  • Monthly, quarterly, and yearly delivery periods

• Available across multiple widgets including:

  • Futures widgets (Graph, Table, Historical Settle Graph)

  • Price & Price Comparison widget

Why It Matters: Energy costs represent a significant component of manufacturing expenses. With this expanded coverage, users can monitor electricity futures across their operational footprint, compare price trends between regions, and develop more effective energy procurement strategies based on forward market indicators.

How to Use It:

1. Access these new products through any of the supported widgets

2. Search by country name and contract type (e.g., "German Power Base")

3. Compare electricity futures across different European markets

4. Track forward curves to inform energy procurement decisions & Market outlook

Related Features: This expansion complements our existing energy market coverage:

• Natural gas futures across major European hubs

Whats New? Vesper is extending our AI-powered forecasting horizon from 6 to 12 months for select dairy, sugar, and oils commodities with established price histories (5+ years of data). This extended visibility enables procurement teams to move beyond tactical buying decisions to support annual budgeting and strategic planning.

Why it matters? Together with expert human analyst outlooks and comprehensive coverage of S&D/Fundamentals, the forecast powered by AI technology gives a comprehensive outlook on future market movements. The extended 12-month horizon allows users to incorporate forecasting into their decision making on more strategic timeframes.

As always, forecasting accuracy is transparently available on the platform for each individual product, allowing users to assess performance and incorporate it into decision-making.

How to Use It:

1. Access the forecast widgets directly on your custom dashboards (add through the search tool if needed)

2. If a product has a 12-Month forecast horizon, it will automatically be visible on your screen

3. Check forecast performance by choosing the 12-Month option in the accuracy dropdown

More products will be added to the extended range in the course of Q2

Related Features: This extended forecasting complements our existing forward-looking toolkit:

• Forward pricing up to 16 months ahead in the Forward Pricing widgets

• Expert analyst outlooks for both short and long-term market perspectives

• Fundamental market drivers dashboard for tracking supply and demand trends

These combined tools give procurement teams unprecedented visibility into future market movements for more confident strategic planning.

Added daily Brazilian public prices from Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), Brazil's leading agricultural economics institute, expanding our coverage of key food commodities with local market data.

Why it Matters: Brazil is a major global producer and price setter for multiple food commodities. Direct access to daily IEA data provides unprecedented visibility into local market dynamics, helping procurement teams better understand price movements at origin and optimize sourcing strategies.

What's New:

• Daily price updates across multiple categories:

  • Meat & Poultry: Chicken cuts (breast fillet, thigh, leg quarters), Pork cuts (loin, steak), Beef cuts (ribeye, round eye, brisket)

  • Nuts & Seeds: Peanuts in shell

  • Vegetables: Garlic (violet, violet size 0.7)

• Key features:

  • Daily frequency updates

  • 4 years of historical data

  • Local market prices from São Paulo state

  • Original source data direct from IEA

How to Use It:

1. Access Brazilian benchmarks in the Prices widgets by searching for the product name or filtering by BR-IEA source

Summary: New wheat flour price calculator now available, combining MATIF milling wheat prices with production costs to estimate realistic flour market values.

What's New:

• Wheat flour price calculation based on MATIF futures

• Customizable input parameters including:

  • Wheat purchase price (FOB French Ports)

  • Original protein content

  • Target protein content

  • Vital wheat gluten price

• Integration of key production cost factors:

  • Electricity consumption

  • Water usage

  • Milling efficiency rates

  • Labor costs

• Medium-sized miller operational model

• Located in Calculations Page under Grains & Feed

Why It Matters: Raw wheat prices tell only part of the story. This calculator helps you understand the full cost structure of flour production, enabling more informed negotiations and better prediction of price movements. Best of all, you can adjust the parameters to match your specific situation and market conditions.

How to Use It:

1. How to Use It:

   1. Navigate to the Calculations Page

   2. Select Grains & Feed category

   3. Choose "Wheat Flour Price - MATIF" calculator

   4. Adjust the input parameters to match your needs

   5. View the calculated theoretical EXW flour price

Part of our expanded grains coverage in Q4 2024, which includes:

• New import/export flow data for grains and flour

• Enhanced production data coverage

• Additional benchmark pricing for grains and flour products

Together, these tools give you a complete view of the market from trade flows to final product costs.