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Article: An appetite for global food stocks
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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Do you fancy a Chicken Maharaja Mac? Well they do in India. Sales
growth for MacDonald's Indian enterprises is 35 per cent per annum
with 157 restaurants open now. Management have said they will more
than double this in the next five years. This prospect may fill some
of you with horror, but it is just one example of a much larger
trend: the urbanisation of the developing world.
This is a highly promising investment theme that I have mentioned
often in the past. There are many way to access it, including
several specialist avenues. One of the most interesting is food -
not just meats and grains but the whole supply chain "from field to
fork", as the manager of the Sarasin AgriSar Fund likes ...