Getting Down the Curve
By IMES | 22 February 2000
Everybody wants to get up curves as rapidly as possible these days so that it is rare to find one going in a different direction but I would like to share with you a curve I call the Consumer Proximity Curve . It is one, which over the years has often helped me to understand what is going on in international food markets and - more important still - appreciate what might happen next.It is illustrated in the following chart.
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Everybody wants to get up curves as rapidly as possible these days so that it is rare to find one going in a different direction but I would like to share with you a curve I call the Consumer Proximity Curve . It is one, which over the years has often helped me to understand what is going on in international food markets and - more important still - appreciate what might happen next.It is illustrated in the following chart.
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