Price forecasts now display weekly data points instead of monthly. The same 12-month coverage now gives you 52 weekly forecasts; 6-month coverage gives you 26 weekly forecasts.

What it does: Shows forecast at weekly intervals rather than monthly What you can do: Track expected price movements week-to-week and time purchases more precisely Why it matters: Spot trends between monthly intervals and answer the tactical question: commit this week or wait? Especially valuable when markets are volatile.

Vesper has Expanded Forecast Coverage, adding 1200+ new price forecasts across key commodity categories. This massive expansion adds price outlooks to previously unforecasted products, enabling procurement teams to anticipate price movements across their entire commodity basket—from coffee beans to meat cuts.

What's New:

• 1200+ New Forecasts: Price predictions now available for products that previously showed only historical data

• Multi-Category Coverage: Major expansion across Eggs, Grains, Meats, and Coffee categories

• Enhanced Cost Model Predictions: More ingredients in your cost models now are part of forecasts

• Deeper Market Visibility: Forward-looking insights for specialty and regional products that lacked predictive analytics

Why It Matters: Procurement decisions require forward visibility across all ingredients, not just major commodities. This expansion eliminates forecast gaps that forced teams to make assumptions about future prices. Now, whether you're buying specialty coffee blends or regional meat cuts, you have data-driven predictions to guide purchasing decisions and budget planning.

What's included?

• Eggs: Shell eggs, liquid, and processed egg products

• Grains: Wheat, corn, barley, and specialty grain varieties

• Meats: Beef, pork, and poultry cuts across multiple regions

• Coffee: Arabica, Robusta, and regional blend benchmarks

• 12-month forecast horizons (where data availability permits)

• Automatic integration with existing cost models

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].

Vesper has launched Direct Widget Data Export, streamlining how users extract data from the platform. This feature eliminates the multi-step process of navigating to separate download centers, allowing instant data exports directly from any widget you're viewing—saving valuable time for teams that need to quickly move data into reports, models, or presentations.

What's New:

• One-Click Export: Download data directly from the three-dots menu in any compatible widget

• Instant Access: No need to navigate to Data Download or remember complex product names

• Multi-Widget Support: Works across Prices, Price Forecasts, Production, Import/Export, and Stock widgets

• Format Preservation: Data exports match the exact view and timeframe displayed in your widget

• Simplified Workflow: From insight to Excel in seconds

How to Use It:

1. Navigate to any widget showing the data you need

2. Click the three dots in the top-right corner of the widget

3. Select "Download" from the dropdown menu

4. Access your file immediately in your email inbox

5. Paste into your model or report—formatted and ready to use

How to access? This feature is live for all users with Download data across the platform. No setup required. To get access please reach out to your customer success manager or [email protected]

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
  

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 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 strengthened its dairy portfolio with a new weekly Vesper Price Index (VPI) benchmark for Cheddar Curd (CIF Southeast Asia). This proprietary benchmark fills a critical gap in regional cheese trade visibility, especially for Oceania-origin products moving into key Asian markets.

What's New:

• Exclusive weekly VPI price benchmark for Cheddar Curd with CIF Southeast Asia delivery basis

• First reliable price reference in a region lacking formal cheese futures markets

• Full integration with existing dairy dashboards and pricing tools

Why It Matters: With no futures market for cheese in the APAC, market participants have struggled to benchmark pricing or implement effective hedging strategies. This exclusive VPI benchmark provides essential price transparency in a market where Oceania exports a significant share of its cheddar production to Asian buyers. By introducing this reference point, we're responding to the need for reliable pricing data in markets lacking formal pricing infrastructure.

How to Use It:

1. Find the new Cheddar Curd (CIF SEA) benchmark in the pricing widgets

2. Add it to price widgets to analyze spread between origin and destination markets

3. Track weekly updates to identify emerging trends in regional dairy trade flows

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

• Global and regional cheese price benchmarks

• Import/export widgets mapping supply and demand in trade flows

• Price spread tool for cross-regional 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