Importing Food Products

Re: [spiers] Importing Food Products

Over the weekend I saw on CSPAN this author who brought up the large
growers who supply Safeway and Whole Foods. This book might give some
you insight on the industry if you don't already know about it.

Thanks,
Victor

Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew
from June 4, 2006
Samuel Fromartz, author of "Organic, Inc." discusses the rise of
organic food from an idealistic niche market into a billion dollar
industry. He also chronicles how and why the organic industry survived
the DOT.COM era and the more recent economic downturn. Organic food
sales have grown at a rate of 20 percent per year due to growing
concerns over hazards of chemically-treated conventional produce
according to Mr. Fromartz. This talk hosted by Politics and Prose in
Washington, DC, was held on Earth Day.

--- John Spiers wrote:

> the same as any other product or service...
>
> 1. starting with what you love...
>
> 2. solve a problem on the margin...
> Here you are likely to be improving something already out
> htere... for example, when USA
> was exporting nectarines to asia, the asians asked for white-fleshed
> nectarines instead of
> orange-flesh nectarines... someone had to develop this new nectraine,
> and it tends to be the
> smaller farmers at first...
>
> All fruits and vegetables you see at safeway or whole foods were
> designed for safeway or
> whole foods... the fuji apple, the romaine lettuce, all of it
> solving a problem. go back to
> grego mendel 250 years ago crossing red peas and white peas to get
> pink peas, and this has
> been going on for a very long time...today they do 'genetic
> modification" whatever that is.
>
> Barbq and chili are normally matched with beer, but I just saw an ad
> for BevMo which
> featured wines to be matched with barbq. I was once served champagne
> with chili by a host
> who discovered how it was a natural and delightful pairing. If
> someone were to even better
> redesign champagne to match chili, and then have it vinted, every
> restaurant selling chili
> would likely welcome the add on sale as well as making news,
> enhancing its image and
> growing the business.
>
> As news apples and pears are designed and put on the market, one
> might redesign cheese to
> match.
>
> The process is exactly the same as any other product or service.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:30:54 -0000, "mgranich"
> wrote :
>
> > How does John's business model fit the importation of food
> products.
> > I've read messages from group members importing organic foods, and
> > wines. But how does one "innovate" a food product? What change
> do
> > you make in a wine or a cheese? Where is the importer's value in
> > importing food products?
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Compete on Design!
> >
> > www.johnspiers.com

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