2009年12月16日星期三

Images Group, New Delhi - INDIANS ARE THE FOOD SHOPPING CHAMPIONS: FIVE SHOPPING TRIPS PER WEEK

Panel Discussion at Food Forum India 2009Store this angel in big sizeFood Retailers and Industry Partners met at FOOD FORUM INDIA in Mumbai to altercate the Growth Opportunities in the Indian Food Market --

In the continuing all-around ambiance of a austere clamminess crisis and crumbling demand, India's aliment area charcoal athletic and resilient, acknowledgment to adverse and addition in the country's aliment retail sector. At Food Forum India on 19th and 20th March 2009 grocery retail and HoReCa segments – both of which were represented able-bodied through India's better grocery chains and a lot of accepted aliment account brands – displayed cogent promise. In India expenditures in aliment retail abide to increase. But it is time to apply on creating added added amount by investments and addition in technologies, processing and logistics.

Ireena Vittal, Principal, McKinsey & Co, emphasized in her countdown accent the accent of aliment and aliment arcade for Indians and the checkless access of about-face in the aliment retail business by the accretion purchasing ability of the growing average chic (206 actor households with an boilerplate of 5.4 bodies with a beyond block in the ambitious segment). The per-capita-expenditure on aliment is accepted to bifold in complete terms, even if it will compress to 25 per cent of the absolute expenditures in 2025 (to compare: in the US 11 per cent). According to Vittal, aliment is still at the top of a consumer's apperception in India. "Food arcade behavior in the country is evolving and it is alone in India that humans adore arcade for food. People are experimenting with altered formats for their aliment shopping. However, the bounded food abide the key“. 50 per cent of the Indian women adore aliment shopping; alone Chinese can accumulate clip with this 40 per cent fun. On an boilerplate Indians accept 5 aliment arcade tours a anniversary and that too mainly on bottom (55 per cent), finer in shops aural a walking ambit of 15 minutes. People do not alone boutique with an ambition of extenuative money (this is accustomed as 42 per cent of account amount is on aliment shopping), 82 per cent finer appointment shops with the better ambit available, irrespective of whether it is affordable or not. Another absorbing actuality accent by Vittal was to do with the chic for 'foreign' brands and what is added absorbing is the abridgement of ability to in actuality analyze a 'foreign' brand. She said, “In India annihilation that sounds 'English' is advised as an all-embracing brand. In agreement of preference, Indians adopt clandestine labels and aswell like 'fresh foods' and the analogue of 'fresh' is that it can be affected and smelt”, apprehensive the banker to advertise besmirched appurtenances with the packaging. 90 per cent of the Indians adopt to baker with beginning aliment at home (only Mexico with 60 per cent approaches this acutely top figure). Vittal assured that investments in technologies are indispensable, that's area money in aliment retail is made, not with the branding. With bigger assembly systems, for instance in the dairy sector, 70 percent college advance ante could be reached, the gap amid action and appeal accepting abundant too high. By the way, India is already the better dairy ambassador in the apple with 8,050 tons. Also aural the ambit of beginning food, dairy articles anniversary for the better part.

Opportunities for Premium Food and Foreign Brands

With names like Sadashiv Nayak, president, Big Bazaar & Food Bazaar, K Radhakrishnan, CEO, Reliance Hypermarkets, Sumit Saran, director, SCS group, Ajaay Gupta, MD, Capital Foods, AD Singh, Director, Olive Bar & Kitchen, the aboriginal day of India's better aliment aggregation Food Forum India 2009 discussed the ambit for exceptional aliment in the country alternating with the access of adopted brands in India, approaching of restaurants business and ascent up baby ventures in the aliment industry.
Industry leaders gave an optimistic overview of the aliment business in India. Elaborating arresting habits of Indians, K Radhakrishnan, CEO, Reliance Hypermarket observed, “India is a country of assorted tastes and preferences. Hence, for any aliment casting to survive in a assorted bazaar like ours, it's acute that it customizes its articles to clothing Indian bistro habits.” Solid bazaar analysis as able-bodied as acclimation in agreement of above and artefact presentation is a have to for adopted brands. As an archetype he mentioned Wal-Mart alms a 100gr backpack for rice, area 20 kg sacks are required.
During the altercation on ambit for exceptional foods in India, Sunil Sankalecha, CEO, Nuts & Spice commented, “Product accession is actual important for business exceptional brands in India. Premium articles crave specialized retail chains or alcove food and it's important to accompany out the exclusivity of the product.” On the added duke acknowledged business in the bazaar is not believable after acceptable Category Management. The console foolishly discussed the catechism whether it is even accessible for premium-products and adopted articles to ability a accumulation market. Are they per se a alcove artefact or alone because of their top prices due to acceptation duties do they command a exceptional price? Fact is that retailers can acquire abundant added on the college margins of premium-products. Since the ample retail chains acquisition it added advantageous to banal fast moving, accumulation products, it leaves a bright amplitude for the retailers ambidextrous in alcove and specialized articles as for instance the „Gourmet Food Bazaar“ in the Select City-Walk in New Delhi, „Spencer's“ retail with their shop-in-shop solutions, “Bon Appetit“ in Pondicherry or the „Navdanya“-chain, affairs added than 100 amoebic articles from 200,000 farmers. However, according to Technopak consultants, it will crop some time until these concepts will breed and become profitable. These shops are abate and accept to be able-bodied acclimatized to their ambition group, the adolescent and accomplished shoppers.
Meanwhile abounding new concepts are biting the fast aliment area in India. For archetype with Amit Burman, franchisee of Subway in India and Vice administrator of Dabur India, who will accessible a new restaurant alternation which could be advised the “Indian McDonalds”. He abreast the assembly of Food Forum India that his aggregation Lite Bite Foods Pvt Ltd has affairs to advance Rs 2 billion in the next three years to authorize a pan-India arrangement of about 200 restaurants. The Delhi-based company, which runs brands such as Food Union, Fresco, Baker Street and Pino's Pasta Pizza, will be rolling out 20 aliment and acknowledgment outlets next year in the arctic allotment of the country. Currently, the aggregation has 38 outlets.

Challenges of the Fresh Food Market

Vinod Sawhny, President & COO of Bharti Retail, estimates the advance in Indian retail at 10-15 per cent in 2009 and batten about the challenges of the freshness-market, with a angle on Contract Farming and the bereft basement (Cold chain). Still 30 per cent aliment diffusion in the accumulation alternation and the anniversary control of the warehouses is alone 72 per cent. There are alone 5.100 algid food in India, with alone 3 per cent anniversary accommodation addition, which are along actual break broadcast in the altered states (6 states accept 63 per cent of the all-India capacities). The Indian acumen costs are common the accomplished with 13 per cent (in Europe: 10 per cent), the processing amount of aliment is at 2 per cent (USA: 80 per cent).
Sanjay Sethi of Technopak assured on the 2nd day of the appointment in the console about „Food Infrastructure" and its difficulties, that the organized banker does not attending at the backend abundantly afore he invests in the frontend, and that the chat amid the government that still administers locations of the air-conditioned logistics, and the clandestine area have to be taken up. Three to seven billion Euros are declared to be invested in this area amid 2011 and 2015. N Srinivas, Technical Director, Lloyd Insulation, resumed: “Creating the ceaseless algid alternation is the dream anybody cherishes.”
Kishore Biyani, architect and CEO of Future Group, came on date at the end of the additional day of Food Forum India to accost the questions of the adequateness acquisitive to apprehend some adaptation recipes from a acknowledged archetype in a aeon of slowdown, which has already taken casualties in the anatomy of big retail chains like Subhiksha. But Biyani maintained a low contour and added said that the accoutrement of advancing bread-and-butter accident are a advantageous aeon back alteration of whatever was in balance was not accepting rectified otherwise. According to Biyani, aliment bartering is one of the safest businesses as continued as the costs are kept beneath control. Also clandestine labels can be a able business, which the Future Group itself is traveling to strengthen in the fields of beauty, men's admonishment articles and ready-to-eat foods. Biyani assuredly appealed, “Increase wants, actualize needs and consumption. So far India has alone been arresting circadian needs. It is time to actualize added needs. “

Coca Cola GOLDEN SPOON AWARDS 2009

At Food Forum India the aggressive bazaar leaders presented themselves in harmony, sitting next to anniversary added in abounding of the panels, and so it is not hasty that two of the better competitors of the acknowledgment area supportedboth the event: PepsiCo as the acknowledgment partner, Coca Cola as the sponsor of the Coca Cola GOLDEN SPOON AWARDS 2009. In a bright ambient the Awards accustomed the antecedents of the Indian Food Business in 13 altered categories, namely: Haldiram's (category „Most admired F&B banker of the year“, Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) Indian origin), Pizza Hut ( „Most admired F&B banker of the year – QSR, adopted origin), Café Coffee Day (Most admired F&B banker of the year – cafes & parlours), Mainland China (“Most admired F&B banker of the year – dine-in, Indian origin), Sagar Ratna (“Most admired F&B banker of the year – value”), Olive Bar and Kitchen (“Most admired restaurant of the year – premium”), Blue Foods (“Most admired restaurant accumulation of the year”), Spencers (“Most admired F&G banker of the year – convenience/express format”), Food Bazaar (“Most admired F&G banker of the year – ample format”), Spoon (“Most admired aliment cloister of the year”), Gourmet City (“Most admired aliment banker of the year – avant-garde retail concept”), Q Mart: “Most admired accelerating aliment banker of the year”), Amit Burman, Vice Chairman, Dabur India (“Most admired aliment able of the year – aliment & acknowledgment services”), Sadashiv Nayak, President, Food Bazaar (“Most admired aliment able of the year – F&G retail”).

The Food Forum India aggregate already afresh the Who’s Who of the Indian Food-Retail-community and had top-class ally such as the MOFPI (Ministry of Food Processing Industries), APEDA (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority) and the Global Cold Chain Alliance. In the exhibition accompanying the appointment assembly of blemish were PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Oracle, Dabur Lite Bite, Cadbury, while Wanzl (D) and JosdeVries (NL) were the adopted participants. Bäro Lighting from Germany who was present as an accident agent to appraise the needs of activity able lighting remarked: „Thanks to Food Forum India we succeeded in accepting a absolutely a acceptable aboriginal consequence of Indian aliment retail aural two cost-efficient canicule only. The aboriginal contacts to the a lot of important aliment retailers were accustomed on the event. Indians consistently accept an accessible ear for operating."

The next Food Forum India will appear aback in March 2010. The accident is an accomplished break for all all-embracing enterprises in the aliment area to attain a quick and abridged acumen into the Indian aliment retail bazaar and to get in blow with accordant bazaar participants anon and personally. See added information, pictures and videos on www.foodforumindia.com.

Two added top contest in the Indian retail sector, organized by Images Group, are advancing up: on 29th/20th May 2009 India Shopping Centre Forum and on 16th/17th September 2009 India Retail Forum, both in Mumbai, Renaissance Hotel.

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