NEWS

Leaders and decision makers from egg businesses throughout the world have met in Venice at the end of March for the first of this year's International Egg Commission (IEC) two conferences.

Lidl Belgium was growing fast in the last few years, reaching a capacity of 290 shops and quickly there will be more! Their marketshare in Begium is nearly 6% already.

The tradition to sell boiled and coloured eggs packed in crystal clear eggpacks from Ovotherm is quite popular in many European countries, for example in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece etc.

Eastertime- time for eggs! .... and before or afterwards? At eastertime the attractive, multicoloured and boiled eggs are offered in crystalclear Ovotherm egg packs for 4, 6, 7 Starpack 6+1), 10 and 30 eggs.

The United States of America are home to some of the most successful global retailers- the company COSTCO is one of them. Their philosophy of attracting the attentention of their membership customers in the food section is also to offer daily needed products in larger than usual amounts.

Atlanta, the capital of Georgia and home to the Head Quarters of Coca Cola and CNN has also been the host to the 1996 summer Olympic Games. But there is more:

Each January the Global Egg Business and its Allied Industry meet at the Atlanta "International Poultry Expo" (IPE).

50 Mio. people live in South Africa, there is a total of 24 Mio. layinghens, the egg production is about 6.000.000.000 eggs per year, the egg consumption 120 eggs per capita/ per year, but coloured people eat a lot eggs less.