Food and Beverages
Indian food prices soar while inflation dips to -1.55%
Huh?! It seems every country’s official inflation statistics are suspect. The man on the street has a true sense of it while officials at government agencies are churning out computer-generated information divorced from reality.Economy and Politics – livemint.com
Year-on-year, the prices of cereals went up more than 12.2%, pulses 16.7%, and fruit and vegetables 10.5%. At [...]
Made for India: Succeeding in a Market Where One Size Won’t Fit All
India Knowledge@Wharton
While consumers across the world are seeing a growing number of “Made in India” labels on the goods they buy, Indian shoppers are witnessing a more subtle change. Increasingly, multinational companies are selling products that are not just made in — but that are made for — India.
Nowhere is that more apparent than in [...]
Retail food biz in India to grow by 400%
The Financial Express
The Indian food retail industry is expected to grow by over four hundred per cent in next five years, and share of global trade in the sector has been projected to double by 2015, a Government official said.
“Food in grocery sector is about 154 billion USD which is 77 per cent of total [...]
At La Mar on the pier, it’s all about ceviche
SF Chronicle
Chef Gastón Acurio has a vision, and it permeates everything you see on the plate and in the decor at La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, the Peruvian restaurant that opened in September on Pier 1 1/2. The building frames calming views of San Francisco Bay on one side and skyscrapers on the other.
Acurio has become [...]
Taco Bell in India?!
Selling Mexican food in India is a no-brainer. Last year, in Bangalore, I bought taco shells and stuffing imported from Sweden! Grupo Bimbo, where are you?
Mexican operators like Taco Inn, Coco Express, El Fogoncito and El Tizoncito should follow Taco Bell’s foodsteps. It is still early days.
Yum Brands Bets on Taco Bell To Win Over [...]
Bharti Wal-Mart to open stores in India by June 2009
Business Standard
Bharti Wal-Mart, grocery and retail chain operator, will be going ahead with its plans to launch its cash and carry stores despite the current market instability, said Raj Jain, managing director and chief executive officer, Bharti Wal-Mart here today.The company was fully committed to its long-term investments in India, he added. Bharti Wal-Mart is [...]
Boutique Wineries, Elite Wine Travels the World
Event Planner Spain
Small plots of land and a careful grape selection are the first steps that should be taken to produce “boutique wines”, a market in which Latin-American producers have surged ahead of the field in the past years. Even though is not an original idea from the New World, but French, since it emerged [...]
“Argentina puede exportar 10% del total de vino mundial”
lanacion.com
Para la enóloga Susana Balbo, propietaria de la bodega Dominio del Plata y presidente de Wines of Argentina, asociación que nuclea a las bodegas exportadoras, si se corrige el problema inflacionario y la falta de infraestructura, la Argentina puede llegar a capturar el 10% del mercado mundial de vinos en los próximos años (hoy está [...]
Chilli on my plate…in my dessert too
Business Standard
Despite its seemingly American origins, India’s spicy palate has been quite the nesting place for it, and we find the spice route takes us farther than the kitchen. Bring the chilli out to the bar, we say, and to the bakery, if you will and oh, if it gets too hot to handle, take [...]
Bargain Wine and the Big Mac Index
Wine Economics:
The McWine Index
Wine prices in the U.S. appear to be heading up – what’s a bargain-seeking shopper to do? That’s the question I was asked by the wine and spirits editor of a major cooking magazine. The answer is to try to make the exchange rate work for you, not against [...]
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