Within the food and beverage (F&B) business, there are many smaller sub-categories that we can look at. In this week’s edition of our 4 Stocks This Week column, we look at four beverage-focused companies listed in Singapore. There are two main classifications for beverages – alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Even within the beverage category, companies could be looked at as consumer staples or consumer discretionary. Here are the four stocks: Del Monte Pacific, F&N, ThaiBev and Yeo Hiap Seng. Read Also: Singapore Inflation Rate In 2018: Here’s How Much Prices Of Everyday Goods And Services Have Increased Del Monte Pacific (SGX:D03) Dual listed in Philippines and Singapore, Del Monte Pacific is a global F&B company, with sales in the Americas (75%), Philippines (15%), Asia

At various points during the Hyflux saga so far, I have given comments to the media and made periodic postings about the company’s corporate governance and its restructuring. I have not to this point written extensive commentaries on it like I have done for many other companies, like SingPost, Datapulse, YuuZoo, Noble and others. There were a number of reasons. First, I thought there were enough people commenting on every single development (in fact, I had turned down requests for comments from the media on several occasions). Second, I did not think there was the kind of egregious behaviour that we have seen in many other companies, even though I thought the Hyflux board was flawed and let down stakeholders. More recently, there was a third reason – I had set a major examinati