Nicolas Pechet

Nicolas Pechet is the managing director of Global Intelligence Alliance, Shanghai, China. Global Intelligence Alliance is a strategic competitive intelligence and advisory group formed in 1995 when a team of competitive intelligence specialists, management consultants, industry analysts and technology experts came together to build a suite of customized solutions ranging from outsourced market monitoring services and software, to strategic analysis and advisory.

Exporting

What do China’s latest dairy market regulations mean to exporters of dairy ingredients?

We think the new regulations favor foreign dairy importers but only until public confidence in local dairy producers grows.

Nicolas Pechet Thomas McDonald

June 14, 2014

New regulations in China seem to further alter the playing field for milk powder brands in favor of major foreign companies, which together made up 54% of the Chinese market in terms of sales revenue in 2013.

The international scene

What does China’s new Food Safety Plan mean to the dairy industry?

Expect dairy producers to move pre-emptively to consolidate their sourcing in an effort to mitigate potential compliance issues.

Thomas McDonald Nicolas Pechet

August 10, 2012

What effect will China's new Food Safety Plan have on the global dairy industry? The Chinese dairy market has been growing at 10% annually, and is expected to continue at similar rates until 2020 So what should one expect? Dairy producers (Nestle is one) are moving to preemptively consolidate their sourcing in an effort to mitigate potential compliance issues.

The global cosmetics market is undergoing a major shift towards the use of natural bioactive ingredients as consumers grow more skeptical of traditional formulations and demand greater transparency and sustainability.

Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are well established in dairy processing but continue to evolve to improve performance, reduce energy use, and increase operational longevity.

Nicolas Pechet

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What do China’s latest dairy market regulations mean to exporters of dairy ingredients?

What does China’s new Food Safety Plan mean to the dairy industry?

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