Independent Sugar
Trade Analyst
Julian brings ideas, expertise and market insights to his clients
Julian monitors EU and UK sugar trade news which you will find available on this website or, if you wish, via an RSS feed. Click here to explore EU and UK sugar news.
Official data relating to sugar trade flows, sugar production, sugar import quotas and the like are regularly updated and visualized using Microsoft Power BI ™. Click here to explore EU and UK sugar statistics.
Sugar trade benchmarks are established from official or independent sources of trade data.
Presentations and quotations
I was honoured again to share my thoughts about the world sugar markets with readers of Südzucker's newsletter Sugar & Beyond published on 3rd December 2024. Is the global sugarmarket “stuck in a rut”? What effect do the cane fires in Brazil have on the global sugar market and what other influencing factors impact trade flows and prices?
As ExecutiveDirector of the ACP/LDC Sugarcane Industries Group, I was invited to speak to the World Association of Beet and Cane Growers on 25 November 2025 on the subject of “Will new challenges around the world bring new equilibrium to sugar markets?”. Please see my PowerPoint presentation here.
Honoured to share my thoughts about the cycles of the world sugar markets with readers of Südzucker's newsletter Sugar & Beyond published on 6th June 2024. And to everything there is a season, turn! turn! turn! as the old song by the American rock band The Byrds put it.
Another year of tightness in global sugar S&D likely, analyst Julian Price opines. See here to read my article for ChiniMandi.
Widely known as “Mister EU Regulations” for his knowledge of the intricate EU policies, Julian Price appears on a podcast for ECRUU, and shares his experience and how he sees EU regulations evolving. Click here to listen on Spotify.
As a representative of ACP/LDC sugar producing countries, I gave a presentation to the European Commission's Sugar Market Observatory on developments in countries that have preferential access to the EU market. The EU forms an important destination for sugar produced in ACP and LDC countries, and they are investing in quality and sustainability improvements to develop their sugar sectors. Download my presentation here.
A Paucity of Bearish News in the International Sugar Markets Sugar stakeholders gathered together this year in person at conferences in Dubai (February 2023), Geneva (April) and in New York (May). The mood at all three gatherings was unremittingly bullish – whilst the bears … where are the bears? … are they still hibernating?See my article for Südzucker's "Sugar & Beyond" here.
I was honoured to speak at the 11th Annual S&P Platts Conference on 26th April 2022 in Geneva on the subject of “Brexit and the wider European sugar market”. Please find a copy of my speech here and a link to my PowerBI visual about processed products here.
More data should be made available to ensure predictability of revenues for all players in the EU sugar value chain. My article for the International Sugar Journal.
Should stakeholders in the European sugar markets pay much attention to world market prices? My article for Südzucker's newletter "Sugar & Beyond".
On 25 November 2020, I had the honour to present to the 29th Seminar of the International Sugar Organization on the subject of "Coronavirus and Climate Change - Impact on trade flows and logistics". My presentation was also featured on Chinimandi on 11/12/2020.
My presentation to Kingsman Platts conference in Geneva, April 2019. A transcript of the text of my speech is also available by clicking here.
My presentation to the workshop 'Medium-term Outlook for the EU Agricultural Commodity markets' on 22-23 October 2018 in Brussels: here.
Yahoo Finance, August 27, 2019.
Independent sugar consultant Julian Price joins Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi to discuss sugar prices.
About me
I am an international sugar trade analyst with more than thirty years of experience in sugar trading and broking gained at ED&F Man between 1987 and 2018 in a variety of roles.
My work has permitted me to travel widely and to learn first hand about the sugar industries in European, African, Caribbean, Asian and Pacific countries and to liaise with people at every level throughout the value chain, from ships’ crew, farmers, warehouse managers and clerical staff, to chief executives, high ranking officials and government ministers.
I was elected for eight years as President of the European Sugar Traders’ Association “ASSUC”, comprising sixty sugar trading companies in Europe.
Today, I participate in a number of committees representing sugar interests to governments and civil society and I research and write about the latest data and developments in the EU and UK sugar markets for my clients, for presentation in conferences and for publication in websites, newspapers and magazines.
julianprice.com Ltd
Apr 2018 – present
ACP London Sugar Group
London Representative (Eswatini Sugar Association)
Jul 1995 – present
ASSUC, the European Association of Sugar Traders
President
May 2010 – May 2018
ED&F Man Sugar Ltd
Sugar trader
Oct 1987 – Mar 2018
University of Strathclyde
PG Diploma Marketing
1986
University of Aberdeen
BSc Agriculture
1980 – 1985
Cambridgeshire, SG8 5NL,
United Kingdom.
Registered in England and Wales; Company Number 11233087.
European Transparency Register identification number: 066549432608-52.
Email: julian (at) julianprice.com
