The people who mix the butter deserve the same intelligence diet as the people who trade it. The Konkan Daily is our answer — one edition each working morning, written for operators who read ingredient decks. The same desk that briefs our Kokum Stearin, Mango Stearin, and Custom CBE Blend customers on palm substitution, enzyme-assisted yield benchmarks, and the seven fractions we now offer.
The Konkan Daily is a single, carefully reported edition — 1,800 to 2,500 words, delivered at 07:30 Austin time (18:00 IST) before the Indian close. It is built for three people: the bench formulator choosing between kokum and shea for a new stick; the procurement manager holding a cocoa-butter PO she would rather not sign; and the founder trying to decide whether this quarter is the quarter to switch suppliers.
Daily closes for London cocoa (ICE), Chicago soy oil, shea FOB Accra, and Indian kokum and mango-kernel mandi prints. We tell you when the cocoa ceiling breaks £8,000/t, when shea dips below $3.50/kg FOB, when kokum crosses ₹520/kg ex-Ratnagiri — and why it matters for the next three weeks of your formulation sheet.
Earnings, capacity, litigation, leadership changes at AAK, Cargill, IOI Loders Croklaan, Bunge Loders, Manorama Industries, 3F, and Wilmar. Plus the Indian D2C landscape — Honasa, Forest Essentials, Minimalist, Pilgrim, Juicy Chemistry, RAS Luxury, Earth Rhythm, Nykaa, Tira — tracked for SKU launches, funding rounds, and ingredient pivots that affect demand for your butter.
CDSCO notifications, BIS draft standards, FDA MoCRA compliance windows, EUDR enforcement against cocoa and palm, DGFT RoDTEP rate changes, GST council decisions. We read the gazettes so you do not have to — and we tell you which ones actually bind your label.
Every India clean-beauty deal over $1M in the last fourteen days. L'Oréal and Estée Lauder India moves. Private-label acquisitions in specialty fats. What a deal tells you about where your butter will be sitting in a supply chain six months from now.
in-cosmetics Global, in-cosmetics Asia, Cosmoprof Mumbai, Beautyworld Middle East — who is exhibiting, who is hiring, who is hunting for co-manufacturing. DGFT export-incentive windows. Live RFQs we have seen on our desk.
Every issue ends with five concrete plays, ranked in order. "Hedge your Q3 cocoa butter spend — here is how much, here is where." "Reserve your kokum allocation before 5 May; the harvest window is 47 days." Numbers. Deadlines. No abstractions.
Subscription access for qualified formulators, procurement teams, and investors — write to the desk for terms. The latest issue is linked below.
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