After significant losses, the food industry is trying a comebackThe global supply chain issues and the Hubris War significantly reduced demand for Dundorfian alimentary products.July 5479in other news:
- Hans-Peter Julian, CEO of the "Den Zeitungs" Media Group, which acquired the Nordenhausen Allgemeine Zeitung the last month, announces the foundation of the "Daily Economy", business-oriented newspaper.
- The Börse of Nordenhaus saw positive spikes after Foreign Office's announcement over Beiteynu's diplomatic ties and ratification of Luthori treaty.
- "Economic investments in tourism are not sufficient", Op.Ed. by Economics Professor Frida Franziska Grüber.NORDENHAUS, DUNLAKE - Once a envy of which Dundorfians were really proud, after this decade's events, including the Hubris War and the global market downturn, the alimentary industry of our country has experienced troubling times, especially because the market demand outside of Dundorf tanked and as a sector that relied most on global exports, the alimentary industries received negative reports one after another. Now, it's been some years since the conflict ended, and with a peace agreement that bolsters hope and infuses positive economic sentiments, some titans of the food industry are really trying to move past forward this moment and do a comeback.
Let's start from the agricoltural conglomerates, like Dastlesch and DKC (Dundorfische Körner und Cerealien). The latter, being an agricolture company producing corn and cereales mainly for the domestic market, didn't really suffer the lack of demand abroad, but it suffered because its domestic buyers couldn't place their products abroad, therefore impacting DKC indirectly and causing waste of unsold grain resources, a decline in profits and uncertainty for its workers - although we note there weren't layoffs caused by the crisis.
DKC, which operates mainly in Dunlake, western Oderveld and Chontalen, is now trying to adjust its production for the expected rise in demand domestically; fueled by the announcement by Dastlesch's CEO, Ms. Corinna Werder, the biggest buyer of DKC products, of resuming investments and hirings. In particular, Werder announced the arrival of new products, one of which goes in unchartered territory for the company: cat kibbles and dry foods.
Futterkatzen is Dastlesch's latest attempt at expaning its reach, now wandering into petcare, with delicious food for your furry feline friend, which can come in fish, chicken or beef flavor (see picture). Similar to katze (cat), there's the Kat-Katz chocolate bar making its way into the market, confirming Dastlesch's strength in these kind of products, as the readers of our parent journal
Zeitung will remember
here and
here.
Their main rival,
Rutters, will also try to compete with them, by presenting new candy and chocolate bars, targeting the child and parents public, tempting them especially with new nuts-based chocolate and vegan chocolate bar, the latter a clear target product for the increasing share of the population who follows a vegan diet and have often to renounce to an essential good like chocolate in their lifes. Rutters has also suffered in these past years, but its leaders are hinting that the company may start producing a product for a community of niche-consumers: hummus with chocolate, which comes also in a vegan version without milk chocolate, named Tschoko-Humus.
To conclude the inaugural article of the Daily Economy, although not directly counted under food/alimentary industry, there is one sector of this economy which stood strong in this decade, and that is restaurants, bars and other catering businesses, they saw a steady number of clients attending them; confirming the tendency observed until now that the main cause of this economic struggles for the other food businesses was their reliance on export or reliance on domestic corporation which main economic source is exporting items. We note that in particular, bars in Chontalen reported an increase of beer sales, probably due to the September-Festival and to their football team losing the championship after many many years.
Futterkatzen promotional picture, by Dastlesch