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Food trends for next year in terms of organic, vegan and vegetarian
The vegetarian wave in the United States is picking up speed: 13% of comparable milk drinks are consumed purely vegetarian. Now we speak of the triumph of vegetarian burgers. As food trends evolve more and more globally, one can confidently take such tendencies as an indication: reasonably - and increasingly for environmental reasons - the trend towards vegetarian nutrition will continue to increase. This applies [...]
Food from Ukraine: It goes ahead – perhaps too slow for some, but there are opportunities.
Ukraine offers unique opportunities in terms of land, climate and soil quality. This coincides with the impression in the country. In addition, tastes and figures have shown that the trade in honey, sunflower and sunflower oil, cereals, gluten-free crops such as millet, soya and buckwheat is also developing well. Even soft fruits are becoming more interesting. As far as organic quality is concerned, Vice-Minister Olga [...]
On which products and consumer-targets growth of the organic market could be based-on?
To recognize that, we should start withe strong points of the market we already saw in 2017: The organic growth in the individual distribution channels is becoming increasingly divergent: in the volume market of dairy products, the full-range producers are now gaining in points. Only with organic cheese can the discount play to its strengths. Only a small part of the growth is probably [...]
Sourcing Trends in Hamburg: a successful networking conference.
Around 65 buying specialists were offered a top-class information program on the two days of the conference and discussed this at the appropriate level. There was a lot of open discussion and there was a lot of information The start was, as always, the market situation: Diana Schaack from AMI spoke on the topic: "Plant-based proteins for humans and animals - market supply and development [...]
An analysis of the development of German organic market with the viewpoint of a customer looking for future orientation
In Germany you have to face this question more and more clearly. The payers of the last two years show that the organic specialist trade is getting more and more on the defensive and the poor numbers of this distribution channel are about in comparison to drugstores and Discount also not nice to talk. The old-school organic consumer still remembers the hour of the pioneers, [...]
This year it has not been easy for the AMI-Experts to give a clear summary of the German organic development of the first six months
But there are a number of interesting results: Households in Germany spent around 4.3% more money on organic food and beverages in the first half of 2018. The hypermarkets, discounters and drugstores were the main beneficiaries. By contrast, the farm shops and the remaining canals declined. The discounters and hypermarkets are expanding their organic range and are thus increasingly competing with the organic food trade [...]