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July 30, 2012 | 
Author Food And Beverage Exports Grew By 29% From January To March 2012, Versus The First Quarter Of 2011
Guatemala (PRWEB) July 27, 2012
The food and beverage sector has been characterized as one of the leaders in export growth. In the past two decades, has grown from U.S. $ 50 million to over $ 800 million, showing a constant increase the food industry, followed by the beverage industry.
Over the past 5 years, the food and beverage sector has had an average growth of 18%. This is the result of many efforts, especially to be aware of the importance of innovation, quality and added value that Guatemala has given to its agricultural production to position itself in international markets, specialized technical training to strengthen businesses and allow them to have a skilled labor has generated new products, new markets and especially more jobs in the industry, explained the President of Food Commission, Francisco José Menéndez.
The food industry consists of 6 sub-sectors integrated as follows: 20% of beverages, 20% of preserved food, 15% of baking, 10% of candies, 8% of dairy and 27% of other processed foods. Together generate about 15 thousand direct jobs, of which more than 3 thousand are women.
80% of jobs generated by the food sector are located in the Capital City, however, the dynamism of the sector is linked to the agricultural sector due to the entrepreneurship of SMEs giving added value to food and open the doors to new markets, said Menéndez.
Entrepreneurs, optimistic about sustained growth and opening up market opportunities in Central America, Mexico, Europe and U.S., have launched the goal of reaching the billion dollars in foreign sales. To achieve this, the sector has been working since 2011 on specific export guidelines to facilitate and adequate information in order to promote new export projects.
According to the director of the commission, these guides are aimed at companies that start in exports, which seek market diversification projects, which intend to export to Mexico and/or the United States on a sustained basis. However, the project comprises three more guides: Central America, Panama and a destination country to be defined in 2013.
Among others, to define these markets, we did the analysis of which represented growth accounted for Guatemalan companies from the food and beverages sector. Definitely, Mexico and the United States are our main markets, after the Central American region and therefore, we seek to strengthen the SMEs to seize them and invite entrepreneurs to know more fully the opportunities of these countries, declared Menéndez.
From finding the terminology used in International Trade, economic data, consumers, Trade Balance, whether from Mexico or the United States, in addition to the top 25 products imported and exported by each sector of these countries. This is the information business operators of food and beverage will find on the export guides mentioned.
What we want eventually is that companies count on different market guides to enable them to consider diversification, new opportunities and actions that promote the export of products of the sector and thus, we can provide to SMEs a greater opportunity for growth, because that results in more foreign earnings, more employment opportunities, more dynamism on the incorporation of all exporting sectors, as it has been for the last 30 years in AGEXPORT, concluded Menéndez.
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Join Kevin McGovern and Chris Clarke as They Go over Social Entrepreneurship Reside from the Chopra Foundation Symposium Through Genuine-Time Streaming on Monday, March 4
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 05, 2012
It is okay to boost the planet although generating a profit. That is the crux of the concern entrepreneurs Kevin McGovern and Chris Clarke will address starting at eight am nowadays, Monday, March 5, 2012. This is the final day of the three-day Chopra Foundation Sages and Scientists Symposium.
At around eight am, Kevin McGovern will take the stage. This serial entrepreneur launched wrinkle-eliminating Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA)—which is now licensed to 50 organizations, such as cosmetic giants L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Chanel and Avon SoBe Beverages—which established the new age nutraceutical beverage category and was later sold to PepsiCo and KX Industries—which created and supplied the very first home-based end-of-tap “Pur” filter for P&G, Brita, and the first refrigerator water filter for Electrolux.
McGovern also teaches a class titled “Global Innovation and Commercialism” at Cornell University. He says that in this class, he emphasizes that business owners need to “catch the existing and ride the wave” to be effective.
Right now, McGovern will speak about his function as Chairman of The Water Initiative (TWI), a venture created to clean up the world’s contaminated water by means of the use of customizable filter technology deployed at the home. This special device eliminates the require for pricey centralized water remedy plants and the risk of recontamination that usually happens between the remedy plant and the tap.
“Water is the lifeblood of the planet,” said Deepak Chopra, founder of the Chopra Foundation. “The function Kevin is performing in this location is very beneficial.”
Chris Clarke will speak at around 10 am. Clarke created the hugely profitable Blue M&M campaign with now Global CEO of Mars Inc. Paul Michaels. Clarke also founded his own highly productive marketing agency Pure Inventive and the socially-conscious Australian residential IT organization Virtual Communities.
Today, the social entrepreneur is operating with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Pure Growth Partners on an energy shot called Street King, which is now carried at the top international retailer of wellness and wellness merchandise, GNC. Clarke and 50 Cent have set a aim of feeding 1 billion Africans using some of the proceeds from Street King sales
Chopra recently co-starred in a Street King commercial with 50 Cent.
The press and public are invited to join the Chopra Foundation’s gathering of distinguished scientists, spiritual guides, political leaders and humanitarians via reside streaming at http://www.choprafoundation.org/events-initiatives/sages-scientists/live-broadcast/ or http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sages-scientists starting at eight am Pacific Time these days. Or, adhere to @ChopraFoundation or @DeepakChopra on Twitter and share comments employing hash tag #sas12.
The Chopra Foundation occasion is designed to discover concerns of the mind and mindfulness, responsible leadership, environmental sustainability, peace and justice, globe transformation, social and economic challenges. The extended weekend will finish on Monday with a recap of the problems and an exploration of creative solutions.
About the Chopra Foundation
The Chopra Foundation is a 501 (c) (three) organization devoted to enhancing well being and properly-getting, cultivating spiritual knowledge, expanding consciousness, and promoting planet peace to all members of the human family.
The organization’s mission is to participate with individuals and organizations in developing a essential mass for a peaceful, just, sustainable,and healthy world by way of scientifically and experientially exploring non-dual consciousness as the ground of existence and applying this understanding in the enhancement of health, company, leadership and conflict resolution.
To find out more about The Chopra Foundation, please pay a visit to the Foundation’s site: choprafoundation.org.
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Post by Rialtalia Secundia
In the course of the month of March the NCAA has a basketball tournament. It is so well identified and soo numerous games are played that the entire month of the tourney is labeled “March Madness”. The tournament game scores are volatile. Scores can change at a rapid pace and the winner can change inside minutes. A team that was leading by 10 points can lose simply because the pace is changing so rapidly inside the game. In the stock industry, the month of March is also called “March Madness” with really related characteristics of chaos.
Throughout the month of March, the stock marketplace will have various sectors moving in and out of favor. Say, for example, the Net sector is leading, and out of nowhere the massive industrial sector starts leading. Since of these movements some stocks such as low-priced stocks will move very large. Typically entire sectors or groups will be moving. The greatest movers are normally beaten-down, low-priced stocks that move huge percentages.
There are several factors for the stock industry “March Madness”. Checks from taxes are seen as one reason for the boost in volatility. A tax-refund check may be used to acquire stock. Investor mood from the winning or losing of a NCAA game is seen as yet another variable. Investors get quite emotional over the win or loss of a game and may possibly irrationally purchase or sell stock as celebration or therapy. Industry flux can also reflect the madness of the basketball fans. Anything goes. Some stocks will go out of favor and some stocks will come into favor. The sleepers will wake and move.
There are numerous influences on why the stock industry experiences “March Madness”. The strongest indicators are increased volatility and sectors moving in and out of favor. If you are seeking to score, your best bet is keep your eye on the movers.
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