The survey also found that most people are not loyal to branded meat – with 74% percent of shoppers saying brand is an unimportant factor for fresh meat, and 62% saying the same for processed meat.
Enza is predicting volumes of Jazz apples exported from New Zealand will reach 1.5 million cartons in 2010, generating an anticipated NZ$45m in export revenue.
Evergreen plans on ordering roughly 100 new vessels, of which the largest will be 8,000-TEU ships. It will order 32 of these ships as it intends to deploy eight ships with each of its four group companies in Taiwan, England, Italy and Singapore.
According to UK’s Organic Trade Board (OTB) findings, 83% of Britons buy organic food, dispelling the common belief that organic food is confined to the minority.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates the New Zealand dollar is overvalued by 10% to 25% buts maintains the Kiwi's free floating exchange rate is appropriate for the country.
Online shopping for lingerie has proven particularly popular in Saudi Arabia where women don't buy from shops because they have male shop attendants, the report says.
About 1,750 exhibitors from 20 countries have signed up for the annual event, occupying 4,700 booths and representing a rise of 50 exhibitors and 205 booths from 2009, the channel says, the quoting Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA).
Taiwan is eager to talk about items that are either on the zero-tariff list of the free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), or that are major exports of Taiwan.
Amid last year’s slump, lines mothballed more than 500 ships worldwide to pare capacity. They also began operating vessels at slower speeds, which cuts fuel usage and reduces the total amount of cargo each ship can haul per month.
Although organic food and drink overall are estimated to account for only around 2% of the value of the total grocery market, organic baby and toddler foods have achieved a leading 45% share of the total branded baby foods market, the survey says.
China would need 216 million tonnes of oil products in 2010, 286 million tonnes in 2015 and 336 million tonnes in 2020, when nearly 60% of its annual oil consumption would be met with imports.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) are holding a seminar to raise awareness of trade opportunities in South East Asia.
