India
Food and Drink Sector Review
Definition and scale of sector
- Agricultural commodities supply primary produce processing,
- Secondary processing,
- Wholesaling distribution,
- Food-processing machinery
Why the sector was chosen in the West Midlands
- Employment growth recorded in cluster.
- Consumer tastes and concerns over food safety are key drivers.
- Both create opportunities to value added through, for example, innovations in prepared ethnic foods and organics.
- Significant force for change in rural areas through a strengthening of supply linkages.
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Fruit punch - February 2008
This juice is worth its squeeze. At least cola majors Coca-Cola and PepsiCo think so. A couple of weeks back, when beverages giant The Coca-Cola Company announced its results for the October-December 2007 quarter, it attributed the growth in its Indian market to its mainstay brand Coca-Cola and its expanding portfolio of fruit drinks (beverages with 20 per cent fruit pulp).
Fruit drinks are increasingly filling the crates that were otherwise capped with fizzy carbonates in the Indian market. In October 2007, Coca-Cola India took its orange fruit drink Minute Maid national after a carefully phased launch that first covered major cities. Last month, PepsiCo rolled out its fruit drink, Tropicana Twister, nationally.
Source: Business Standard
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Working up an appetite - A Report from IBEF - October 2007
When early bird investors calculate their medium to long term returns from the Indian food processing industry the results put to shade comparative returns from many other higher profile businesses. The reasons are apparent as the food processing industry enjoys a string of benefits and concessions, besides a growing appetite from foreign investors.
The growing list of positive factors include government subsidised food parks, tax breaks, increased FDI (foreign direct investments) and foreign food retailer interest, proposals for public-private investment partnerships, increased spending on the supply chain infrastructure, a burgeoning middle-class with fast growing disposable incomes and changing consumption patterns, modern retail formats changing shopping behaviour and international road shows by the government.
Source: India Equity Brand Foundation (IBEF)
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Food and Drink Sector Report - July 2007
India has the youngest working population in the world – young singles are making a lot of money. Average Indian household spends 52% of its income on food. With changing food habits and high propensity to spend additional income on food and with retail food sales estimated at $185 billion (2004/2005), the market prospect is very vibrant.
Source: UK Trade and Investment
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Food Industry Overview - from IBEF - July 2007
The Indian food industry is estimated to be worth over US$ 200 billion and according to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is expected to grow to US$ 310 billion by 2015. India is one of the world's major food producers but accounts for less than 1.5 per cent of international food trade. This indicates vast scope for both investors and exporters.
Source: India Equity Brand Foundation (IBEF)
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Opportunity in India - June 2007
India is an obvious “potential” market for any UK company considering exports. But it is important that it is seen as a very sophisticated market. It has a middle class of 300 million people who want access to all the products common to the UK High Street. They may not yet have the purchasing power to buy at UK prices, but they do have the capability to enter into partnerships to produce locally at local prices.
This report highlights on the opportunities and expressed need in Indian Economy for all these trade clusters:
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Food and Drink
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Transport Technologies (aviation, automotive, infrastructure)
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Medical Technologies (biotech & pharmaceuticals; healthcare)
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Business Professional Services (education & training, insurance, tariffs)
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Tourism and Leisure (heritage & restoration, travel and tourism)
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Information Communication Technologies (telecom)
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Screen, Image and Sound (media)
The above highlights serve to illustrate the fact that India is ready to do business in almost every sector. It is a market, which is set to continuing growing for at least another 30 years as a result of its own demography.
Source: UK Trade and Investment
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Agri-Business (including food & drink) - June 2006
Agriculture sector provides 25% of GDP, 64% employment, but accounts only 18% to India's total exports. Contribution of agricultural research to total productivity growth is as high as 48 per cent. 30% of India's agriculture relies on traditional methods of farming, thus the potential for organic produce exports to the developed countries is very high. India wants to increase its share in the rapidly growing global food trade to 2% by 2015. The government is keen on preparing a comprehensive food processing policy. The aim being to tap the huge potential arising from India's huge production of vegetables, fruits, food-grain, milk, fish and poultry.
Source: UK Trade and Investment
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