USEFUL
LINKS
Ingredients
and industrial (semi finished) food products are
typically manufactured by food companies,then sold to
customers which are also food industries or professionnals
in food processing. These later ones are simply located
more 'downstream' than the first ones within the increasingly
complex chain of elaboration of the final food products
eaten by people.
This
pattern is becoming increasingly relevant for a large
proportion of food manufacturers :
65 % are already regularly buying ingredients
and semi finished food products ;
40 % already sell such food products
intended for subsequent industrial use, although the percentage
of their global turnover represented by such sales may
widely vary from one company to another (from 100 % for
BtoB specialists down to a few % for some companies not
yet fully organized to develop this specific business)
The
demand for ingredients and semi finished foods
is promoted by long-term trends :
*
Worlwide increase in consumption of ready-to-eat products
and of meals consumed outside home
* Increased diversity of products and of their
culinary inspirations, stimulated by the mobility
of people and goods
* Evolutions of the food industry similarly
to other businesses (car industry, electronics...)
> Marketing &
industrial specialization on 'core businesses and
processes'
> Spreading of missions
between final assemblers of heavily marketed consumer
foods, and upstream providers of specific food
components or contract-operated processes
> Constraints of food
hygiene and safety, of environnement and
profitability going against the multiplication of
the processes within a single food plant.
Herebelow
links lead to web sites in French or English focussed
on food ingredients.
*
Companies specialized in Consulting,
Market Studies, Training, Recruitment in the ingredient
area
* Newsletters, magazines and professional
associations in the BtoB food area
* Professionnal Trade Shows for Ingredients
* Database, directories and specific
sites in the BtoB food area
* Our own selection of interesting
web sites in other food areas
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Companies specialized in Consulting, Market Studies
in the ingredient area :
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Newsletters, and professional associations : Back
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Professional Trade Shows for Ingredients : Back
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Specific sites in the B to B Food area : Back
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> Our own selection of interesting web sites in
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