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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "China Food and Drink Report Q3 2008" report to their offering. Ouragriculture investment in ChinaReport provides independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on China's food and drink industry.www.foodanddrinkfest.comAs the Beijing Olympics finally nears, growth in China's explosive and enormously attractiveagriculture investment in China culturemarket shows no sign of tapering off. The author has added new food category sales growth indicators to its China Food & Drink Report for Q308 and both paint an overwhelmingly positive picture of a vast market in which sustained urbanisation and middle class emergence is driving demand for non-essential conrad hilton, added-value and luxury food and beverage items. Our food consumption growth outlook remains strong; total consumption in yuan terms is forecast to increase by 61.3% to CNY1.59trn in 2012, while growth in dollar terms is set to far exceed this at 128.1% to US$295.3bn in 2012 thanks to the continued appreciation of the yuan against the dollar. Growth within individual added-value food categories is as positive. China is the world's largest market for instant noodles and value sales of the product are forecast to grow by 125% to US$9.5bn in 2012 according to our new forecast. Frozen food sales - the other newly incorporated indicator - are set to increase by 67% to US$19.1bn in 2012, lower growth here being attributable to the comparatively high prices of frozen food products and the still low penetration of white goods in homes beyond major urban centres. Even spiraling food prices are failing to dent our positive outlook for consumption, thanks both to economic development and the efforts of manufacturers to offset the impact of higher prices. Faced with inflation reaching a 10-year high of 8.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) in February, producers have begun to invest in added-value, higher-margin produce. This strategy encourages consumers to spend more, but offers them improved value in return; it does not simply require them to pay more for an item they used to pick up cheaper conrad hilton. With our forecasting average inflation of 5.4% in 2008, multiple manufacturers have joined the premiumisation bandwagon. Brewers Tsingtao and Kingway have revealed plans to focus on premium beers in urban centres, while leaving lower-priced mass-market brands to dominate in less-affluent parts of the country. Instant noodle market leader Tingyi has announced plans to improve its healthy noodle portfolio, while frozenagriculture investment in Chinaproducer First Natural has confirmed that it will focus in packaging innovations in a bid to upgrade consumers to higher-margin items. Meanwhile, Mengniu Dairy has revealed that it will commit heavily to innovation to at least keep affluent consumers interested in the booming dairy market. Food safety remains a dark cloud hovering above this dynamic and high-growth industry, and substantial investment is needed if China's global reputation is to be rescued. For the time being, however, China's food market continues to offer the kind of returns that make the food safety cloud one worth weathering. Anyone that has visited a grocery store or recently browsed through theagriculture investment in China customssupplement of any newspaper or health magazine would be familiar with the fashionable term ‘superfruit’. Referring to a rapidly growing range of fruit and veg, the valuable superfruit promise is found on a wide selection of beverage and food product labels.www.foodanddrinkeurope.comAs the list of superfruits include anything from UK-grown blackcurrants to the Caribbean acerola-cherry, it may seem that the valuable superfruit indication label can be attached to any fruit or berry based item in order to boost sales. However, scientists who support the term say that in order for the fruit or vegetable to be entitled ’superfruit’ it needs to have exceptionally high health promoting compounds; rigorous scientific evidence must be available on the health benefits to be gained from including the fruit in one’s diet. And as the interest in this new health boosting wonder range is growing as steadily as a mango on a branch, there is no doubt to whether the marketing strategy hasagriculture investment in Chinaproved successful: the Superfruit is now an established phenomenon. The idea of superfruit is no short-term trend that will die away - it is a fundamental shift in strategy in beverages, fresh fruit and fruit ingredients conrad hilton. By comparison to the overall static fruit market, the superfruit market is growing at a rate of 40%-100% per annum and offers a large price premium over standard products. The leading pomegranate, mangosteen and goji brands in Europe and the US have grown from zero to combined sales of over $600 million (401 million) in the space of five years.