... affect the growth of crops. Crop protection chemicals are mainly divided into herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. Pesticides include both synthetic pesticides and bio-based pesticides, are the largest market segment owing to their wide-spread use in ...  |  read more...

... of responding to the gourmet trend, the company has maintained its share in Chile in recent years. As Cambiaso Hermanos offers many products targeted at lower-income consumers, increasing competition from private label products could have ...  |  read more...

... yerba mate, which represents around 40% of volume sales in the country and that was showing increased signs of maturity during the review period. Yerba mate or other plant-based hot drinks are currently facing substitution ...  |  read more...

... the increased awareness of its healthy properties. Meanwhile, coffee value sales were strengthened as operators became better established and consumption habits continued to change, although volume sales declined underpinned in the effects of a shorter ...  |  read more...

... alternatives to Starbucks. Juan Valdez has also improved its retail position. This is consistent with the company’s focus on both the on-trade channel, through its own coffee shops, and the off-trade channel. Procafecol Chile also ...  |  read more...

... to developing new products, particularly new organic flavour variants in fruit/herbal tea, the company will also seek to strengthen the distribution and marketing activities for its existing brands. In line with its “eco social” corporate ...  |  read more...

... have therefore struggled to maintain competitive pricing. By upholding their quality standards, companies were forced to increase prices, thus reducing their competitiveness in coffee in Bolivia. During the review period, consumers were attracted to domestic ...  |  read more...

... black standard tea by Bolivians. Since 2011, companies have taken the traditional ingredients a step further and begun to add lemon, cinnamon and clove to their tea bags. The trend attracted consumers from all socioeconomic ...  |  read more...

... to the local diet. The gap is filled by fruit/vegetable juice, which saw outstanding 8% off-trade value growth in 2012 due to a more visible consumer quest for natural products. Each fruit/vegetable juice category has ...  |  read more...

... such as carbonates are migrating to RTD tea, growth in both categories demonstrates that its performance in 2012 is based more on market expansion than on substitution. Even though RTD tea saw spectacular growth over ...  |  read more...

... to dynamic new product development and promotion, more than on product substitution. Carbonates, which is usually suffering from consumer migration to RTD tea, fruit/vegetable juice and bottled water, is also growing in a good pace. ...  |  read more...

... the bottled water and fruit/vegetable juice categories, selling its leading brands Brisa to FEMSA and Tutti Frutti to Postobón in 2008 and 2006. Bavaria decided to focus on the manufacturing and distribution of beer and ...  |  read more...

... low-income population suffering from malnutrition to starvation. Fortified concentrates are the most affordable products for low- income groups, followed in the price rank by fortified fruit-flavoured drinks (no juice content) in increasingly accepted fruit-flavoured products. ...  |  read more...