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Marketing Strategies For Micro and Small Enterprises – Free Online Manual Series

Here is another document from the Ethiopian Business Development Network – the manual on Marketing Strategies For Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia was published in Addis Ababa in February 2004.

from: EBDSN (click image for full story online)

The 65 page manual starts with a review of the problems faced by the sector, [...]

Trends of 2010

Here’s another list that claims to list things that made the trends 0f 2010!

from: Food Product Design (click image for full story online)

I am really not sure that there are important trends in the food industry although they are attractive and tempting. I would like to be able to access many [...]

Ethiopian Business Development Services Network

The site of the Ethiopian Business Development Services Network will be of great value to Ethiopian businesses, but also contains some information that would be of interest to any entrepreneur considering a food processing business.

In particular it has a detailed section on costing with a focus on fixed and variable costs, price setting [...]

Solar Drying of Fish – Free On Line Information series

The use of dried and smoked fish is an important part of the diet of many poorer communities with access to fish either marine of fresh water.

Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles, a really good blog with a focus on business successes in Africa, presents some technical information on fish smoking and drying.

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Trends in 2011 – This Looks More of a Reflection of the Majority of Consumers – Single Screenshot Series

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Trends in 2011 – You Might As Well Invent Your Own – Single Screenshot series

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Frozen Food Overview – Free Online Information

This 28 page document is the Food Vision of the British Frozen Food Industry.

from: British Frozen Food Industry (click image for full story online)

Although the document considers the British industry it is packed with information that would be of value to anyone, anywhere considering entering the frozen food market.

There are detailed [...]

How Fair is Fairtrade Chocolate?

There seems to be an outcry in the UK, because it has come to light that chocolates labeled Fairtrade may actually contain no Fairtrade cocoa (cocoa produced by disadvantaged third world farmers) because all cocoa is mixed before distribution to manufacturers.

from: The Sun (click image for full story online)

While this may be [...]

Ten Trends for 2011

Yes I had said I wasn’t going to present trends as everyone else was and I was not sure how useful these trends are to many manufacturers serving African markets but

from: Foodstuff South Africa (click image for full story online) But this set looked a bit different and I am actually posting it [...]

USDA Data on Fruit & Vegetable Consumption in USA – Single Screenshot Series

from: USDA (click image for full story online)

note: This clip comes from a detailed data full report. It is worrying that such data does not exist in Africa.