The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) has completed its
first food trade mission to China, meeting with buyers, importers
and distributors to assess the possibility of future trade
opportunities.
A leading global provider of synchronised supply chain and revenue
management solutions has helped a Chinese beverage firm maintain
its competitive advantage in what is a booming sector, writes
Anthony Fletcher.
Pressure on soy prices likely to continue with a new report
revealing China is expected to reduce its principal soybean
planting area, while increasing corn and rice planting in 2005.
Sino-Pack 2005 is set to open its doors tomorrow in Guangzhou,
southern China, providing a platform for international packaging
and processing specialists operating in the region, writes Simon
Pitman.
China is becoming more than just a low-cost manufacturing
destination; its firms are locating in Germany as a means of
gaining access to the EU market and tapping into technical
know-how, writes Anthony Fletcher.
Increasing affluence and changes in diet in China to open up new
opportunites for European yeast extract suppliers, but the threat
from Chinese suppliers has kicked off, writes Lindsey
Partos.
Number one natural colours firm Chr Hansen makes inroads into the
lucrative Chinese market, this week unveiling a new food colour
factory to meet a rise in local demand, and marking the first step
in a raft of investments in the region.
Number six global flavours player Takasago International has
established a new division in Shanghai aimed at expanding its
manufacturing and retail presence in China as well cutting costs.
Foreign companies' profits in China may have increased rapidly in
the past four years, but they remain modest in comparison with
other countries with smaller markets and slower growth, according
to a surprising new report. Anthony...
China has been the dominant supplier of many herbs, spices and
ingredients to the Russian market for the last 10 years, but a
reduction in Chinese crop areas to make way for more profitable
products has given local growers from the...
Rexam, the UK-based global packaging company, has reached an
agreement to acquire the 40 per cent shareholding it does not own
in the Chinese beverage can business, Rexam Beverage Can Zhao Qing,
from its joint venture partner, Hua...
Chr Hansen breaks into the lucrative Chinese market constructing
its first production facilities to provide more flexibility to
serve the burgeoning local food industry, reports Lindsey
Partos.
A new report suggests that while the benefits of sourcing in China
outweigh the additional logistics costs, western companies must
still be prepared to deal with significant procurement and sourcing
issues if they are to prosper.
China's soft drink industry continues to boom, with market analysts
Canadean estimating that continued growth now means annual
production is in excess of 20 billion litres. And with retail
prices continuing to fall and expendable...
China Resources Breweries Limited, an associate of South
African-based SABMiller and a subsidiary of China Resources
Enterprise, is set to invest $82.2 million (€68m) in the
construction of a new brewery in the city of Dongguan, in...
Over the course of the last few months the China beer market has
witnessed frenzied activity as international brewery companies race
to increase their footprint in what is now the world's second
largest market by volume. But...
Penn Biotech, a Canadian firm specialising in agro biotechnology,
says that it's Chinese subsidiary has received a request from one
of the world's largest potato processors to initially supply over
1.3 million pounds of...
Competition for European suppliers of honey has ramped up with
Brussels clearing the way to end a two year ban on food imports
from China which should pave the way for cheaper raw materials for
honey formulations.
Despite claims by Brazilian authorities that exports of soybean are
about to be resumed to China, officials from China's State Grain
Administration have categorically said that trade is not about to
start again at any time in...
US food giant General Mills is to increase wholesale prices on
several categories of foods in response to rising raw materials
costs. The increase is thought to be between two to nine per cent
on selected lines.
As grain stocks are depleted across the world, China's food
producers have found sourcing the commodity an increasingly
expensive and time consuming issue, writes Simon Pitman.
However, a report from independent intelligence...
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterrra has outlined ambitions to tap in
on anticipated growth in demand for dairy imports to China.
Speaking at a conference in Auckland today CEO Andrew Ferrier said
that the country represented 'considerable...
China has reassured Argentine soy producers that it will continue
to buy its soy, after the producers started to show signs of
nervousness in reaction to trade agreements signed last week with
the Brazilian government and Brazilian...
Japan's number one producer of instant noodles says it has reached
the initial stages of an agreement to form an alliance with the
Hebei Hualong Food Group, a major Chinese food processer.
A British Pig Executive (BPEX) delegation is visiting Beijing at
the end of the month to encourage British exports to China, the
world's biggest market for pork.
International wheat, corn and soybean prices will remain high for
much of 2004, warns the US agency Fitch Ratings, with the industry
likely to see a continual shifting of higher ingredients costs onto
the food manufacturer. And it...
Elopak is to build a state-of-the-art production plant in China as
part of a strategy to increase its worldwide presence. The
Norwegian-owned company, which has been present in the country
since 2000 with a representative office in...
UK-based firm Delcam is the latest sponsor of Total Innovation
Design Centre of Excellence. The announcement follows the recent
opening of company headquarters in China, another illustration of
how packaging technology is becoming...
The organisers of Propak China 2003 have said that
"unprecedented levels of support" from Chinese and
international trade bodies, together with space expansion from key
international players, indicate that this year's...
A total of four Chinese cities have applied to be the future home
of an Asian packaging centre in response to the World Packaging
Organisation's invitation to establish a regional centre in China.
Malaysia plans to set up a halal food conglomerate with companies
from China and the Middle East to promote the country as a hub for
the processing and packaging of Muslim food.
China is to nearly double the capacity of its processing industry
of farm produce in the next three years, making it competitive in
the international market.
The Procter & Gamble Company has announced that Hunan Kinglong
Bio-resources Co. Ltd. (Kinglong) will be the exclusive Chinese
licensee for P&G's proprietary Lo Han Guo processing
technology.
