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 Organic Trends to a Healthy Balance Sheet
How do you assure your financial position in today's questionable economic times? It is imperative to be an informed investor of time and money while positioning yourself where the markets are going. Food has always been a healthy investment, but healthy organic food has become a way to riches.
With the worldwide push for healthier diets and an enormous focus on organic production, the consumption of organic foods has been on a steady increase for the past decade. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) worldwide food consumption will increase an estimated 4.8 percent by 2015 and 8.8 percent by 2030. Furthermore, according to multiple business trend experts, the organic food market is definitely the niche in which you want to invest your future assets.
RNCOS, a market research specialist in Delhi, India, forecasts that the worldwide organic food market could be valued at $70.2 billion USD by the end of 2010. Given the research findings, organic foods are an excellent investment that will increase your assets and decrease your liabilities. RNCOS further explains that governments such as India, Singapore and Spain are encouraging this market, while growth in Asia, the Pacific and North America is projected near 20 percent. With this type of growth projection, it is an optimal time to develop your business plan toward organic production and/or distribution and advertisement.
To further emphasize the global nature of this growing organic trend, the data supplied by Agripress World deserves contemplation. Agripress World projects this market as increasing by approximately $5 billion USD per year. Global entities such as Europe, Germany, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and the United States are all noted as showing increased marketability, which translates into increased assets for those on the forefront.
Put yourself in the position of the consumer: Given the option to increase your personal asset of health by eating healthier organics for the same price, what would you choose? Because of increasing globalization and production, organic foods will become more plentiful, require less liability and equity, and result in greater profitability and stronger bottom lines. This is more than a trend. It is a way of life.
As the world populous becomes more aware, health and self-sufficiency are increasingly desired commodities. Organics can help to meet this need twofold. Healthier organic foods will supply a route to improved health while resources for learning about home organics will also rise in popular demand.
In November 2008, the PRlog Free Press Release, citing Bharat Book Bureau, an online database research firm, reported an approximate 19 percent increase in organic demand for the previous year. Based on the laws of supply and demand, projections are strong for the organic market. Though the greatest demand is currently centered on Europe and the United States, the demand is being fulfilled throughout the rest of the world, where the bulk of the profits yet to be made exist.
Healthy food, healthy bodies and healthy balance sheets; what could make a business owner or investor any happier? For a recent example of the profitability of this fledgling market we refer to the success of the Dannon Company with its Activia probiotic yogurt line. In one year's time, their sales skyrocketed past the $100 million USD mark in the United States alone, according to Goliath Business Knowledge on Demand.
If you are interested in profits, increased assets, a successful future and a flourishing business plan the organic food market is the perfect route for your investment of time, money and energy. A secondary gain worthy of mentioning is that you can help improve your own health and the health of those you love while making money with organic foods.
Sources:
http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/3_foodconsumption/en/index.html
http://www.rncos.com/Report/IM152.htm
http://www.agripressworld.com/start/artikel/340838/en
http://www.prlog.org/10144938-remarkable-growth-is-expected-in-the-organic-food-market-worldwide-new-report-from-bharatbook.html
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6262827/In-the-year-since-the.html#abstract
Written by DK Jordan
Content provided by Associated Content for MercaTrade.com
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