Summary: Vesper is excited to announce the launch of a new weekly market analysis report focused exclusively on coffee. This report, authored by industry leader Sucafina, will provide in-depth insights and timely updates on the global coffee market.

What's New:

• Dedicated Coffee Market Analysis: A specialized weekly report offering expert analysis of the coffee market.

• Expert Author: Authored by Sucafina, the leading sustainable Farm to Roaster coffee company with a rich history in commodities since 1905.

• Frequency: Delivered weekly to keep you informed of the latest market movements.

• Release Schedule: Available every Tuesday afternoon.

Why It Matters:

Coffee is a critical commodity for many of our users, and this new dedicated report will provide invaluable, focused intelligence. By partnering with Sucafina, we're bringing you expert perspectives and analysis to help you:

• Understand current market dynamics and trends.

• Anticipate potential shifts in supply, demand, and pricing.

• Make more informed purchasing and trading decisions.

• Gain a deeper understanding of the factors influencing the coffee industry, from farm to roaster.

How to Use It:

• Access the new Coffee Market Analysis report in the Market Analysis section of the Vesper platform.

• Look for the report updates every Tuesday afternoon.

• Consider setting up alerts to be notified when the new report is published.

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

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.

Summary: New weekly coffee market analysis covering Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, and China, providing insights into production trends and market dynamics.

What's New:

• Weekly coffee market reports

• Coverage of key producing regions

• Production trend analysis

• Market dynamics insights

• Price movement tracking

Why It Matters: Understanding coffee production and market trends is essential for analyzing global supply dynamics and their impact on market prices. This report gives you a head start on coffee market intelligence ahead of planned expansions in 2025

How to Use It:

1. Navigate to Market Analysis section

2. Select Beverages category

3. Find the latest coffee report under Weekly Updates

Use Case Example: Coffee roasters and beverage companies can use these insights to track production trends across major growing regions and anticipate potential market shifts.

Summary: Expanded vessel lineup tracking with insights into Russia and Ukraine through UkrAgroConsult, providing trade insights weeks/months ahead of official customs data.

What's New:

• Live vessel tracking for:

  • Vegetable oils & oilseeds, and Meals

  • Grains and Pulses

  For Russia and Ukraine exports

Why It Matters: See actual trade movements weeks before official reports, helping you spot supply shifts and market trends as they happen.

How to Use It:

1. Select the Vessel Lineup Table widget on your dashboard

2. Select Russia or Ukraine as origin

3. Filter by product

Summary: New POME (Palm Oil Mill Effluent) trade data added, with focus on Malaysian and Indonesian exports, enhancing your ability to track global palm oil supply and demand patterns.

What's New:

• Complete POME import/export data

• Five different visualization options

• Analysis options for Volume, Value, Price, and Year-over-Year Evolution

• Full integration with existing import/export analytics

Why It Matters: With Malaysia and Indonesia being the world's largest palm producers, this data helps you better understand market movements and supply dynamics in the global palm oil market.

How to Use It:

1. Open any of our five import/export visualizations

2. Select POME in the product filter

3. Use the dropdown to analyze by Volume, Value, Price, or Evolution

4. Switch between visualizations to spot different patterns

Need help? Contact your customer success manager or email [email protected]

Summary: Expanded sunflower market coverage with Vessel Line-up Data and Supply & Demand Data, providing earlier insights into market movements and comprehensive Ukrainian market analysis.

What's New: Vessel Line-up Data:

• Argentina (origin):

  • Sunflower Oil

  • Seed

  • Pellets

  • Meal Pellets

• Turkey (destination):

  • Sunflower Oil

  • Seed

Supply & Demand Data: Ukrainian market coverage for:

• Sunflower

• Sunflower Oil

• Sunflower Meal

Why It Matters: Early access to vessel line-up data helps you anticipate market movements before official numbers are released, while Ukrainian S&D data provides crucial insights from one of the world's largest sunflower oil producers.

How to Use It:

1. Check vessel line-ups for early trade indicators

2. Monitor Ukrainian supply and demand data

3. Compare with existing market data for complete analysis

→ Explore Sunflower market data: app.vespertool.com/dashboard

Need help? Contact your customer success manager or email [email protected]