LARGER FIRMS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT IN CHINA MEAT INDUSTRY
October 1st, 2012
BY MARK GAO, IN BEIJING
THE LEADER of China's meat industry has told the country's annual national meat conference that his sector is starting to consolidate and move away from its past reliance on small businesses. China Meat Association (CMA) secretary general Chen Wei noted that only 20% of the country's 10,000-plus slaughter houses were large in scale, with the rest "artisanal or unmechanised." He noted however that the sector is changing, with the number of large companies rising from 30 in 2010 to 42 a year later. Speaking at the China ...
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