Vesper has expanded its Meat & Poultry coverage with 249 new price series across three major protein markets: Brazil, Australia, and Thailand. This release adds daily and weekly pricing for beef, poultry, pork, and lamb, strengthening our global protein intelligence for teams sourcing across multiple origins.

What's New:

• Brazil: 52 daily price series for chicken, beef, and pork, including 32 entirely new products.

• MLA (Australia): 112 weekly saleyard prices for cattle (68 series) and sheep (44 series), based on physical auction transactions. All prices stored on a carcass-weight basis.

• Mexmoc (Thailand): 85 weekly price series covering meat, poultry, and related products, including 72 entirely new additions.

Why It Matters: Global protein sourcing requires visibility across multiple origins to compare pricing, validate supplier quotes, and anticipate supply shifts. Brazil, Australia, and Thailand represent critical benchmarks for international meat buyers, yet consistent, structured pricing across these regions has historically been difficult to access in one place. This expansion gives procurement teams the cross-regional view needed to negotiate with confidence and identify cost-saving opportunities.

How to Use It:

• Prices Widget: Bookmark key products (e.g., Brazilian chicken, Australian cattle, Thai pork) for quick access to the latest prices.

• Price Comparison: Compare pricing across origins or protein types to spot arbitrage opportunities or validate regional quotes.

• Cost Models: Add these series as ingredients in your Cost Models to track input costs for prepared foods, food service menus, or retail protein products.

How to access? Add to new or existing dashboards using the search function, or contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected] to confirm which specific products are currently active for your region.

Added dedicated news coverage for packaging markets, tracking regulatory developments, sustainability initiatives, and material demand shifts across agricultural supply chains. Our 12th commodity-specific news feed, powered by AI models that filter global outlets to deliver only relevant packaging intelligence.

Why It Matters: Packaging costs can represent 10-30% of total product costs, yet most procurement teams track these markets separately from ingredient intelligence. Policy changes, material innovations, and input cost movements in packaging directly impact your bottom line and product competitiveness.

What's New:

• AI-filtered news from global outlets, eliminating noise

• Global and regional packaging market trends

• Regulatory developments and sustainability initiatives

• Material demand shifts and supply constraints

• View packaging feed individually or combined with all 12 commodity feeds

• Custom keyword notifications

• Direct keyword and region search within the feed

How to Use It:

1. Access Packaging News in your lefthand bar navigation

2. Set up keyword notifications for topics you're tracking

3. Search by keyword or region to find specific developments

Vesper has launched Commodity Shipping Intelligence through an exclusive partnership with Upply, bringing freight rate benchmarks directly into the platform. This integration enables procurement teams to track delivered costs by combining commodity prices with real shipping rates for their specific inbound lanes—creating true landed cost visibility.

What's New:

• Inbound Freight Benchmarks: Real shipping rates for strategic procurement routes, not generic freight indices

• Upply Partnership Integration: Access to validated freight data from one of Europe's leading logistics intelligence providers

• Route-Specific Pricing: Targeted lanes for commodity imports (origin ports to destination factories)

• Multi-Modal Coverage: Ocean freight, road transport, and intermodal combinations where relevant

• Integrated Cost Analysis: Combine commodity prices with freight to calculate true delivered costs

Why It Matters: Commodity prices at origin tell only half the story. With shipping costs representing 10-30% of delivered prices and extreme volatility in freight markets, procurement teams need visibility into both components. This integration transforms Vesper from a commodity price platform into a complete landed cost intelligence system—critical for accurate budgeting and supplier selection.

How to Use It:

1. Search freight routes using origin-destination pairs in the platform search

2. Add to dashboards alongside relevant commodity prices for complete cost tracking

How to access? Freight rates are available to all Vesper users who have access to the Energy and Transport category. For more information, contact [email protected].

Summary: Vesper has partnered with Leap Market Analytics to deliver weekly expert reports covering Beef and Poultry markets. Starting with US market coverage, these specialized reports expand our protein category insights with the first report now live on the platform.

What's New:

• Weekly reports for both Beef & Broiler markets with pricing trends, supply & demand dynamics, and market insights

• Expert commentary from Leap Market Analytics' protein specialists

• Seamlessly integrated into the Vesper Market Analysis section

How to Access: Find the new reports under Market Analysis → Meat and Poultry, with fresh insights published weekly.

What's New

• 300 new daily price series covering major beef, pork, and lamb products

• Real-time daily updates to ensure you have the latest market data

• Coverage across different cuts, grades, and products

How to use in Vesper:
Prices Widget

• Easily track and monitor daily price movements for all meat categories

• Quick access to historical trends and current market conditions

• Ideal widget for efficient price monitoring

Cost Models

• Incorporate new meat price data into custom recipe breakdowns

• Build cost models that reflect your product’s market pricing

• Create detailed analyses for food service, retail, and manufacturing applications

Price Comparison

• Compare meat prices against other commodity products

• Identify correlations and patterns between different protein markets

Getting Started

The new meat price series are immediately to users with Meats&Poultry in their commodity package. To begin using this data:

1. Use the Prices Widget to explore individual price series

2. Use the Price Comparison to analyze relationships between meat and other commodities

3. Access Cost Models to incorporate the new data into your custom analyses

Questions or Support

For questions about the new meat price series or assistance with implementation, please contact our support team at: [email protected]

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 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

Launched comprehensive news coverage for meat and poultry markets, powered by custom machine learning models that filter and analyze global news sources to deliver relevant, real-time market intelligence.

Why it Matters: Staying ahead in volatile meat and poultry markets requires more than price data. Our data science team has developed specialized models that scan thousands of global news sources, filtering out noise to deliver only relevant market intelligence—giving you the full context needed.

What's New:

• Live news feed powered by custom ML models that:

  • Track thousands of global news sources

  • Filter for market-moving events

  • Identify relevant industry trends

  • Deliver real-time updates

• Coverage across all major meat and poultry categories

How to Use It:

1. Access the Meat & Poultry tab in your news section

2. Set up notifications for news keywords to keep updated on relevant headlines

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