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About Donald Nordeng
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I run a site dedicated to providing information on doing business in Japan. We provide consulting services for those who are exporting to Japan or who want to open an office in Japan.

Experience
I have lived in Japan for 20 years, and have been in business for 19 years. I am president of Ecocert-QAI Japan Ltd., a Japanese company that is wholly owned by foreign interests. I also run a consulting business called JapanExperts. We provide management training and consulting services.

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International Business - food industry

Expert: Donald Nordeng - 3/24/2008

Question
Can you suggest an directory for food industry companies and/or supermarket chains worldwide?

Do you know of a good agricutural market news source for Asia & Europe? {like the USDA AMS equivalent}

Thanks

Answer
Dear Mike,

JETRO.go.jp is one source for information on Japan. ASEAN has a good bit of information:http://www.aseansec.org/
The FAO homepage can be reached at: http://www.fao.org/
For the page on agricultural marketing go to: http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/ags/agsm/marketin.htm
English, French and Spanish available.
For the FAOSTAT database and producer prices, go to: http://apps.fao.org/
For the 1999-2000 Commodity Market Review, the URL is: http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/esc/comtrade.htm
The people at the Commodities and Trade Division have set up a wonderful web page to get weekly prices (and monthly and yearly averages) of most major export commodities - from 1989 to 2000. Highly recommended! Go to: http://apps2.fao.org/ciwpsystem/ciwp_q-e.htm
For the GIEWS quarterly food outlook web pages, the URL is: http://www.fao.org/giews/english/fo/fotoc.htm
In addition, all the GIEWS publications, including Foodcrops and Shortages, Food supply situation and crop prospects in sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahel weather and crop situation and Special Reports and Alerts are available at: http://www.fao.org/giews/english/giewse.htm
The last three sites can be found starting with the FAO's Economic and Social Department at: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/
For the Global Watch archive web pages go to: http://www.fao.org/news/global/glolib-e.htm
And for the World Food Summit web pages, go to: http://www.fao.org/wfs/homepage.htm

Best of luck,

Donald Nordeng

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