The Russian Beef Market article covers the status of this agricultural sector. Live-stock breeding is one of the most labor-intensive branches, with a long investment payback period, in Russia, just as worldwide. Due to this fact and to generally unfavorable economic satiation in agriculture, live-stock population in Russia has gone down by 33.4 million heads over the last 13 years.
The World Beef Market article acquaints readers with the main trends and prospects of this market. With U.S. import restrictions by many countries due to BSE, the global beef export will shrink by 15%, according to 2004 forecasts.
The problem of the Russian meat market regulation is still topical and causes serious concern both in Russian and in foreign market players. That's why we public market operators' opinions as to which meat market regulation measure, quota or import duty increase, must be applied in 2005 in the Highlight of the Issue section.
Dymov company has been in business in the Moscow market for three years only but it has already managed to approve itself, by pushing not a few of its long-standing competitors on the shelves. The founder of the company, Vadim Dymov, tells about establishment of the company, its team spirit and plans for the future.
Russians become increasingly more demanding to quality of products offered to them. As concerns meat, the trend towards gradual increase in cooled meat consumption is visible in this segment. Unfortunately, such meat has rather short shelf life, which makes many consumers avoid this product, opting for frozen meat. But science makes headway: the All–Russian R&D Institute of the Meat Industry is studying a possibility of greatly increasing the lead time of frozen meat. More detailed information on this subject is available in the Safety & Health section.
A wide range of food equipment, which "flows" to Moscow from all regions of Russia, the CIS, Europe, and Asia, “settle” at the supplying companies. As a result, the range of machinery supplied by these firms becomes similar, and competition shifts to the service sector. An article in the Business Technology section is devoted to availability and quality of service provided to food equipment.
In the Leaders section, we will acquaint readers with interesting persons, advanced production facilities, and new launches from the top companies.
For instance, a new Head of the Committee for Agricultural and Food Policy at the Federation Council, Mr. Gorbunov, told to MC about the main aspects of his vision of problems facing the Russian meat market.
On August 5, 2004, Dymov company announced the launch of the Haute Cuisine premium line. Creation of the Haute Cuisine line was due not only to market trends but also to the company's traditional commitment to producing exclusive, innovative premium meat products.
Brazil's successes and status in the global chicken meat market may be judged by the single fact – Brazilian chicken meat is exported to 122 nations on five continents. These excellent results have been largely facilitated by operations of the Brazilian Association of Chicken Producers and Exporters (ABEF). And it is about this organization that we tell in the Company History section.
Italian cuisine is very popular with Russians. One would think, what may be interesting in the Italian meat cuisine? There are neither exotic ingredients nor seasonings nor fancy cooking techniques… What distinguishes Italian meat from any other meat? Read Italian Meat article to learn that.