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Article: The global market.(refrigeration zone)(Industry Overview)
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- Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
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- October 3, 2005
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Anytime I think the HVACR industry is only what happens in the United States, I just need to read through some of the publications I get from beyond U.S. borders. One such publication is the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIF) Newsletter, published by the Institut International du Froid in Paris.
The July newsletter demonstrates the global marketplace and how what happens elsewhere affects the States--and vice versa.
For example, the newsletter quoted the market researcher IGD as seeing China set to become an even larger retail market. The report said, "China is fast closing in on the U.S. global food retail market, with the United States set ...