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...Underpinning the changing diets in emerging markets is a redefined agricultural landscape. Farmers are increasingly taking advantage of improved seed and plant varieties, as well as fertilizers and pesticides. In the 25 years prior to 2001, the total worldwide investment in agriculture?including machinery, land improvements and livestock?increased from $1.5 trillion to more than $2.1 trillion, according to the United Nations. Different types of foods are being grown, as basic crops have given way to speciality produce. Instead of growing sweet corn for sale by the ear in the marketplace, for example, farmers are harvesting and selling white corn...
...contaminated spinach was ultimately traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC’s San Juan Bautista plant. The company, which packages spinach under 34 different brand names, has reported a 70 percent drop in sales of bagged salads since the FDA initiated its spinach ban, and they have cancelled earlier plans to buy a second processing plant...
...heart of India's insular business establishment - the last business group you'd have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad. The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel plant, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill, first shipping line, first cement factory, first science university, even its first world-class hotel. His successors - among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot - created the first airline, first motor company, first bank and first chemical plant. But after independence...
...paid by budget business travelers in India today. That same desire to market to, and invest in, some of the world's poorest countries is behind Tata's affinity for Africa. In South Africa, the group has investments in mining, tourism and engine manufacturing. There is an instant-coffee plant in Uganda, a bus factory in Senegal and a phosphate plant in Morocco. "We look at countries where we can play a role in development," says Tata. "Our hope in each is to create an enterprise that looks like a local company, but happens to be owned by a company...
...that VW may have a broken business model in the U.S. Unlike BMW or Mercedes-Benz, VW can't charge the rich prices necessary to offset the cost of exporting from Germany. And unlike its German rivals, VW doesn't make cars in the U.S.--its one American plant shut in 1988--a problem given the dollar's slump versus the euro...