News on Speciality Food 2008

2008-12-20 Community Commerce Centers: The 21st Century Workplace (Part 2)

The food court might have to be converted from what was originally small and individual speciality food venues to a more traditional food service cafeteria setup found in many large corporate office settings, but in some cases the original layout might work well providing it is feasible to sustain a wide variety of individual speciality food venues. It is unlikely that all of the screens from a theater multiplex would be of use for large meetings or other community events, but the excess space could be either converted to use for service and support activities or potentially left untouched to serve as a theater multiplex for the neighborhood. The interior walkways could remain virtually without modification, except that these walkways might also be utilized as an indoor running and walking track. The original service and support

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More rarely discussed as alternatives for reducing the energy demand in getting to the workplace are such things as telecommuting and proximity commuting. Telecommuting has been available for an extremely limited number of workers for decades Community Commerce Centers,21st Century Workplace,Climate Change,Global Warming,Business News India,

2008-06-07 Michael Pollan urges us not to give up on eco-friendly habits Environment The Guardian

Of course, what made this sort of specialisation possible in the first place was cheap energy. Cheap fossil fuel allows us to pay distant others to process our food for us, to entertain us and to (try to) solve our problems, with the result that there is very little we know how to accomplish for ourselves. Think for a moment of all the things you suddenly need to do for yourself when the power goes out - up to and including entertaining yourself. Think, too, about how a power failure causes your neighbours - your community - to suddenly loom so much larger in your life. Cheap energy allowed us to leapfrog community by making it possible to sell our speciality over great distances as well as summon into our lives the specialities of countless distant others.

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2008-06-01 Eat No Evil :

People have always wanted to eat healthy. What has changed is that eating healthy no longer means giving up what you love to eat," says Pankaj Gupta, retail and consumer practice head, Tata Strategic Management Group, which predicted in a late-2007 report that the changing lifestyles of Indian consumers will encourage more people to buy speciality foods, pre-packaged for the sake of convenience. Concurs Maheshwari B. , senior consulting analyst at Frost and Sullivan, "Highly aware consumers, a change in lifestyles of the urban elite and increased knowledge of the importance of preventive healthcare are fuelling the sales of these specialised processed foods. " And big companies such as Nestle India, Unilever, Kellogg et al are launching new food products to meet these demands.

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2008-04-24 Agriculture - still our most vital challenge (ScienceAlert)

The world has become dependent upon fossil fuels and modern agriculture depends heavily on oil to drive machinery and to produce the fertilisers and other inputs required for plant and animal production. As oil prices go from usd. 100 to usd. 200 a barrel, the input costs to agriculture will escalate. Developed countries can afford that for a while, but not those in the developing world. The UN Food Program officials have been confronted with a 30 per cent (for corn) and 130 per cent (for wheat) rise in food costs in the past year. This is doubling the number of people (to 25+ per cent of 6b) who can no longer afford to feed themselves adequately. The energy inputs for food production often exceed the energy harvested in grain or other foods. Biofuels redress that balance but may only be a stopgap as they don and rsquo;t always result in a

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As resources become more scarce and the population continues to disassociate food with its production method, an exciting challenge is arising for young Australians to join together and develop solutions to the coming agricultural crisis, writes David Kemp - Opinions Life Science Agriculture - still our most vital challenge

2008-06-13 The Island-Business

Specialty foods are highest in grade, style and quality in their categories. They are called special because they excel such qualities as; origin, particular processing, ingredients, design, limited supply, extraordinary packaging, and channel of distribution. These products are not mass produced in the US. 58 pct. of all consumers purchase speciality foods. There is strong economic growth in Asia such as seven to eight percent and 14 to 15 pct. in industrial growth. For the growth of these factors are improved logistics, and increased market transparency" said David Lennarz, Vice President FDA Registrar Corp, USA.

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2008-12-13 Kesko Oyj (HEL:KESAV) Anttila And K-citymarket Increase Cooperation

The operational efficiency project of the home and speciality goods trade is lead by Anttila Oys President Matti Leminen, to whom also K-citymarket Oys Managing Director Ari Akseli will report as from . The Presidents of the other home and speciality goods companies (Indoor Group Ltd, Intersport Finland Ltd, Kenkkesko Ltd and Musta Prssi Ltd) already report to Leminen. In its operations in Finland, Kesko Food will concentrate on the food trade operated under the K-retailer business system, and on the grocery wholesale trade carried out by Kespro Ltd.

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Kesko Group machinery stores Yahama Center 24. 4 Finland, total 24. 4 K-Group home and speciality goods stores Intersport 7. 7 Kesport 20. 9 Asko 0. 7 Sotka 4. 0 Musta Prssi 6. 2 Andiamo and K-kenk 6. 5 Kenkexpertti 3. 7 Thti Optikko chain 4. 4 Finland, total . 9 . 4

Net sales by division, 2007 2006 Change Change, continuing operations million million pct. million million pct. ----------------------+---------+---------+-------+----------+----------+------- ----------------------+---------+---------+-------+----------+----------+------- Kesko Food, Finland 3 041 ---------------------+---------+---------+-------+----------+----------+------- Kesko Food, other countries* 23. 3 ----------------------+---------+---------+-------+----------+----------+------- Kesko

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2008-07-19 Africas Big 7 strategic to sustainable development

Thomson says that, from a humble meat show in the early eighties, a period when meat prices were held constant for at least five years, the show has grown into new dimensions including bakeries, dairies, delicatessen and other fresh produce. Considering the international debate on the dimensions of the food crisis, the annual exhibition is of strategic importance for the continent. The collective initiative of seven co-located events, including the Pan Africa Retail Trade Exhibition, Retail Solutions Africa, FoodBiz Africa, Agri-Food, FoodTech Africa, Interbake Africa and Dairy/Deli, will further create an environment in which solutions can be tabled for world markets.

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2008-07-06 The Weasel: Lemon with a twist - Columnists, Opinion - The Independent

Though better known for honeymoons than gastronomy, it was in the Sicilian cliff-top resort of Taormina that I saw one of the most remarkable foodstuffs of my entire life. It happened when Mrs W and I were holidaying there. (No, not a honeymoon. ) We were participating in the evening passeggiata on the main drag Corso Umberto when I caught sight of an extraordinary fruit sitting in the window of a restaurant. Barring the size, you would have said it was a lemon. About 10 inches in length, it might have escaped from Gullivers Brobdingnag. I was smitten. After 10 minutes peering in the window, Mrs W had to drag me away. Its impact was akin to the pineapple that prompted John Murray, the fourth Lord Dunmore, to erect a 53-foot pineapple-shaped pavilion in the grounds of Dunmore Park, Stirlingshire, in 1761. (Its still there. Indeed

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2008-06-07 The India retail story - Express Hospitality

Over the last few years Indian retail has witnessed rapid transformation in many areas of the business by setting scalable and profitable retail models across categories. Indian consumers are rapidly evolving and accepting modern retail formats. New and indigenised formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets, speciality and convenience stores, and malls, multiplexes and fun zones are fast dotting the retail landscape. By 2011, India will have an additional 280 hypermarkets, 3,200 supermarkets, 400 department stores, and approximately 1,200 mega speciality stores (the category killers) and 20,000 exclusive brand outlets across the various retail categories. Malls alone will provide an additional 200 million square feet of gross leasable quality retail space (GLA) by year

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