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ASIAN BUSINESS
Asia remains the fastest-growing market for the
global fresh fruit and vegetable trade, and Asia Fruit Logisitica is the place
to meet and do business with the industry leaders driving the expansion.
Asia’s only dedicated fresh fruit and vegetable trade show – which returns to Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo Center on 2-4 September – is enjoying record exhibitor demand this year. Companies from 35 different countries have signed up to showcase their products and services at the event, while sales of exhibition space have already outstripped last year’s show by more than 20 per cent.
Many of the exhibiting countries are seeking to capitalise on Asia’s booming import demand. According to a recent report from Asiafruit Magazine, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, collective fresh fruit imports by 10 key Asian markets have increased by some 250 per cent over the past two decades to reach almost 10m tonnes in 2014.
As well as providing a gateway for global suppliers targeting Asia’s fast-growing consumer markets, Asia Fruit Logisitica is the leading international platform for Asian exhibiting countries seeking to increase their exports.
Malaysia, which has already booked 70 per cent more exhibition space compared with this time last year, is capitalising on the growing intra-Asian trade in fresh fruit and vegetables at the show. Malaysia’s Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) will be back with the Ministry of Agriculture to showcase a range of mainly tropical fruits at Asia Fruit Logisitica 2015, following what it described as “a very encouraging response” to its debut appearance at last year’s show.
“Hong Kong is Malaysia’s traditional market for fresh produce exports and our durian has been making a big impact there for the past few years,” said FAMA’s Chang Lee Nam. “At Asia Fruit Logisitica we can connect with importers and retail buyers, not only from Hong Kong, but also from mainland China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea. They’re all seeking to line up supply deals for the coming season and there is a lot of business matching at the event.”
Asia’s only dedicated fresh fruit and vegetable trade show – which returns to Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo Center on 2-4 September – is enjoying record exhibitor demand this year. Companies from 35 different countries have signed up to showcase their products and services at the event, while sales of exhibition space have already outstripped last year’s show by more than 20 per cent.
Many of the exhibiting countries are seeking to capitalise on Asia’s booming import demand. According to a recent report from Asiafruit Magazine, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, collective fresh fruit imports by 10 key Asian markets have increased by some 250 per cent over the past two decades to reach almost 10m tonnes in 2014.
As well as providing a gateway for global suppliers targeting Asia’s fast-growing consumer markets, Asia Fruit Logisitica is the leading international platform for Asian exhibiting countries seeking to increase their exports.
Malaysia, which has already booked 70 per cent more exhibition space compared with this time last year, is capitalising on the growing intra-Asian trade in fresh fruit and vegetables at the show. Malaysia’s Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) will be back with the Ministry of Agriculture to showcase a range of mainly tropical fruits at Asia Fruit Logisitica 2015, following what it described as “a very encouraging response” to its debut appearance at last year’s show.
“Hong Kong is Malaysia’s traditional market for fresh produce exports and our durian has been making a big impact there for the past few years,” said FAMA’s Chang Lee Nam. “At Asia Fruit Logisitica we can connect with importers and retail buyers, not only from Hong Kong, but also from mainland China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea. They’re all seeking to line up supply deals for the coming season and there is a lot of business matching at the event.”
BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
Microsoft
has acquired BlueStripe Software, a startup that makes software designed
to track and troubleshoot business applications running across multiple
operating systems and data centers.
Microsoft
brass have given the green light for a series of deals recently to
buy startups focused on consumer-facing productivity applications, networking and cloud infrastructure tools, and data crunching software.
The company didn’t disclose the terms of the latest deal. BlueStripe, based in
Morrisville, N.C., had raised $13.7 million in funding since its 2007 founding,
according to CrunchBase.
Mike
Neil, a general manager at Microsoft, said in a blog post that the company would stop offering BlueStripe’s
products as an independent service and would fold the technology into existing
Microsoft tools like System Center and the Operations Management Suite.
INDIA BUSINESS
According
to an official from the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC), the symposium will be
held at Taj Palace Delhi Hotel on June 18, 2015.
Sectors
to be involved include agriculture, infrastructure, energy, information
communication technology (ICT), health, education, industry and tourism.
About
400 participants from both Tanzania and India are expected to attend.
Some
of the main objectives include getting an understanding of the Indian market
which is considere one of the most important in Asia.Tanzanian businesses will
also be looking for trade opportunities and drumming up new investments between
the two countries.
Officials
hope the symposium will improve trade and investment between Tanzania and India
and strengthen the present (B2B) links between the two countries.
Tanzania
and India have traditionally enjoyed close, friendly ties. India and Tanzania
both initiated economic reform programmes around the same time (in the 1990s)
with external relations aimed at broader international political and economic
engagement, cultivation of international business relationships and promotion
of foreign investment.
According
to the official lines ‘In recent years, Indo-Tanzanian ties have evolved into a
modern and pragmatic relationship with greater and diversified economic
engagement.’
The
High Commission of India in Dar es Salaam was set up on November 19, 1961 and
the Consulate General of India in Zanzibar was set up on October 23, 1974.
These are among the oldest in Tanzania.
India
and Tanzania have a vibrant business and commercial relationship driven by the
presence of a large community of Tanzanians of Indian origin.
SUPPLY CHAIN
VMR
Products LLC, a leading manufacturer of electronic cigarettes, is taking cues
on supply chain management from consumer electronics manufacturers like Apple Inc.
The
Miami-based company, which has relied on third-party firms to buy materials and
manufacture its products in China, is moving much of its supply chain in house.
VMR aims to produce 60% of its “e-cigs” in its own factory in Shenzhen by the
end of the year, up from about 30% currently, said Jan Verleur, VMR’s chief
executive and founder.
Mr.
Verleur said the company, which says it is the largest online e-cigarette
seller by sales volume, was inspired to switch to in-house manufacturing by the
success of Apple Inc., which began producing iPhones using a similar model
years ago. Mr. Verleur said VMR will have an easier time controlling for
quality when it relies less on outside suppliers. VMR’s devices turn chemicals
called “e-liquid” into vapor, which a smoker then inhales. Defects can take the
form of a bad batch of chemicals or flaws in the devices themselves. “Apple is
the greatest example of supply-chain management in China. They have such a low
defect rate because the equipment that sits on the Foxconn line…is owned by
Apple, not Foxconn,” Mr. Verleur said, referring to the company that provides
manufacturing labor to produce iPhones in China. “That’s what we’ve been
evolving into. We went from a very sophisticated technical buyer to a very
sophisticated manufacturer.”
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Librarian
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and Documentation Divison, Chanakya Central Library
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School of Business Management
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Sabita Sahu :Junior Librarian Knowledge and Information Services Unit, Chanakya Central Library, Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneswar. library@asbm.ac.in ; www.asbm.ac.in
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Really informative
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