ISTA Mielke GmbH – better known as OIL WORLD – was founded in 1958 by Siegfried and Anni-Marie Mielke and has remained a wholly family-owned business. The company is neither linked to nor financially dependent on any other company. To assure objectivity of the analyses and price predictions, neither the company owners nor any of the employees are involved in producing or trading the commodities we are analyzing. Nobody of the team is acting on any futures markets on oilseeds and/or products. The OIL WORLD WEEKLY as well as the FLASH and all the other OIL WORLD publications are providing thoroughly elaborated, unbiased and reliable information and forecasts of the current and prospective world supply, demand and prices for oilseeds, oils, fats and oilmeals for the oilseed, oil and feed industries as well as the trade, organizations, banks and government agencies worldwide. In view of the challenges of the a growing global market you need first-hand information from the world´s leading forecasters of the whole field of approximately 40 commodities, thus benefitting from our long experience of more than 60 years worldwide.