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The Business of Low Carb (recent articles)
With cattle prices topping $1.00/pound, bread & pasta makers
complaining of lower sales, and specialty low-carb stores popping up like weeds - er, wildflowers - and with major food manufacturers about to flood the market with low-carb versions of their products by the first half of next year, there has been a flurry of news articles lately focusing on the economic effects of the low-carb juggernaut. I've added a separate topic & forum on "The Business of Low Carb" at the Low Carb Savvy Shopper site to gather these articles together. http://lowcarbshopper.bestmessageboard.com/?vForumID=30 Here are some of the most recent articles on the business of low-carb: 11-15 - Beef Prices Rising; Heartland Producers Benefiting KTVO-3 (Iowa) Beef cattle prices paid to producers are at unprecedented highs right now. Economists with the Nat'l Cattlemen’s Beef Ass'n even say, the market shows no signs of cooling soon. This has been great news for Heartland producers who are living it up at over a dollar a pound some weeks. But what is this trend, that's affecting agriculture? Steak, steak and more steak, that's the trend. article: http://www.ktvotv3.com/Global/story....9&nav=1LFsJ7dg cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=270 11-15 - Low-carb menus fatten bottom line The Tennessean Will Ruby Tuesday's new low-carb offerings do anything for bottom line? According to analysts who follow its stock, the company is adding the menu items in a way that won't rob its bank account and should contribute to higher earnings. Ruby Tuesday is not the first restaurant chain to discover America's growing hatred for all things carbohydrate. article: http://www.tennessean.com/business/a...nt_ID=42525648 cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=272 11-15 - Prime Cuts, Prime Prices Lowell (Mass.) Sun Where's the beef? Entering the stratosphere. Demand is outpacing supply, and beef cattle are being rushed to the slaughter to feed a nation hungry for protein. Less beef, higher prices. Breed bulls are selling for $40,000 and prices for live cattle have been trading at as much as $1.20 per pound. 80 cents is considered healthy. A few years ago prices hovered around 50 cents. article: http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1...768276,00.html cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=273 11-14 - Leaders at durum forum talk about effect Atkins Diet has on industry Minot Daily News Four leaders in the American pasta industry discussed obesity and the Atkins Diet Wednesday, how it has changed consumers' perceptions of grains and how the pasta industry can regain its position as a healthy food. Luke Marano, Sr., who just announced a $7.9 million expansion to Minot Milling and is a 3rd-generation pasta maker, said pasta is a healthy food. "Pasta is a good food and it's a fun food. It's good and it's good for you. It's like candy, you'll always come back to it." article: http://www.minotdailynews.com/daily/...1&-Max=1&-Find cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=266 11-14 - Consumers seek alternatives to costly beef (SW Florida) Herald Tribune The Sammy Frog's restaurant at Lakewood Ranch used to have NY strip on the menu for $18.95, but it removed the item earlier this month because of escalating beef prices. Increasing demand for beef from consumers on low-carb diets is partially responsible for the higher prices. So is the Midwest drought, as well as the outbreak of mad cow disease in Canada. Although ranchers are benefiting from the trend, restaurateurs and consumers are feeling the pain. article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pb...311140582/1060 cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=269 11-14 - Low-carb equals high profits for specialty shops San Antonio Express-News It was two weeks before Marian Chamberlain and sister Susan Mesko were scheduled to open their new venture, Low Carb Depot. To publicize the store, Chamberlain bought time on a local radio talk show. Two weeks before the first day of business and with no store sign in sight, passers-by knocked on the storefront door. “They'd ask, 'Is this going to be Low Carb Depot?' ” Chamberlain recalled. “They would tell me they'd been all over town looking for where the store might open.” article: http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.c...10&xlc=1084528 cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=271 11-13 - Low-carb craze bites into biz Reuters via Crain's Chicago Business For Jim Williams, the popularity of low-carb diets has been bad news. Instead of losing weight, he's losing sales. Williams — CEO of Monterey Pasta Co. — said the impact is difficult to measure "but we know it's there." Purveyors of breads, pastas and other high-carb products must consider whether to adapt to the low-carb craze or risk losing sales in a competitive food market where even a small falloff can bruise profits. article: http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=10679 cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=268 11-11 - Low-carb diets bite into sales of bread Arizona Republic Jeff Benkel got a sense of the popularity of the Atkins diet when his bakery introduced a low-carbohydrate loaf last week. "We introduced a test run at the Biltmore (Fashion Square) farmers' market and sold about a dozen loaves right away," said Benkel, whose family owns two Arizona Bread Company bakery/cafes in the Valley. article: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...11bread11.html cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=259 11-11 - Nation's First Low-Carb Conference to Explore Risks and Opportunities in $15B Industry BusinessWire The nation's first business conference examining opportunities and risks in the booming low-carb manufacturing and retailing industry will be held in Denver, CO on Jan. 22 & 23, 2004. Low-Carb experts, manufacturers and retailers will converge to explore a variety of best practices and relevant issues. The summit is hosted by LowCarbiz, the weekly trade newsletter of the Low-Carb industry. article: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/... 6&newsLang=en cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=260 11-10 - Effect of rising beef prices felt by restaurants, customers Meridien (CT) Record-Journal Blame it on the high number of low-carb dieters or the cases of mad cow disease in Canada. For whatever reason, local restaurateurs are feeling the financial pain of skyrocketing beef prices. Restaurants are paying up to 40% to 50% more for beef than they did last year. Among the reasons their meat suppliers are giving them are the popular Atkins Diet and Canada's inability to import beef. article: http://www.record-journal.com/articl...ews/news01.txt cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=256 11-08 - Bakers feeling protein pinch Rocky Mountain News As meat replaces bread as the staff of life for a growing number of Americans, some local food companies are making changes. And some are capitalizing on the low-carb trend to expand their businesses. Nationally, some bread companies and bakeries are reporting slower sales as more consumers switch to the Atkins or other low-carb eating plans. Closer to home, two Colorado bread bakers say the niches they fill are a hedge against dropping demand, but both are still tracking the trend. article: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...412052,00.html cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=254 11-01 - Ranchers credit meaty diets for high beef prices AP via Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel A lanky Texan like Paul Genho never had much interest in celebrity doctors and their slim-down trends. Until now. Thanks to the toppled food pyramid approach advised by diet gurus such as Dr. Atkins and Dr. Agatson, red meat sales are up again, and the fattier the meat the better. "Beef is hot, beef is back," said Genho, manager of the 825,000-acre King Ranch, one of the country's top beef producers. "People are sick of chicken." article: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/7155516.htm cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=242 11-01 - Breadmakers feel pain from Atkins dieters´ gains AP via MaineToday.com At Standard Baking, a bakery in Portland, Alison Pray said sales are "nearly flat" after growing 10-15% a year previously. Pray sees plenty of couples stopping by, but often only one partner is eating. The other is cutting carbs. She´s a bit incredulous when customers ask if she produces anything consistent with the Atkins diet. "This one person asked me, ´Can you make a low-carb bread?´ I said, I wouldn´t know how to do it," she said. A few blocks away, Anthony´s Italian Kitchen has adapted... article: http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D7UHUF7O0-304.shtml cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=245 10-30 - Atkins Plan Looks Healthy To Investors Newsday Two investment firms have acquired a controlling stake in the rapidly growing low-carb food marketing company founded by diet guru Dr. Robert C. Atkins. The deal announced yesterday, less than two weeks after Atkins' Manhattan medical practice closed its doors for the last time, comes as consumers are beginning to spend freely on an ever-growing array of foods labeled low carb. article: http://www.newsday.com/news/health/n...alth-headlines cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=238 10-23 - Retailers feed low-carb diet frenzy Detroit News It used to be that people looking to slim down had to wrestle their cravings alone. These days, a growing army of retailers and restaurants is giving new willpower to consumers committed to low-carb diets. Powerhouses like Kroger, 7-Eleven, Wal-Mart and others are throwing their weight behind low-carb products, hoping to boost their bottom lines while shrinking those of their shoppers. article: http://www.detnews.com/2003/business...c01-303484.htm cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=228 10-19 - Dr. Atkins' Legacy (company profile) Newsday In three decades of authoring best-selling books, gabbing on talk shows and granting countless magazine interviews, Dr. Robert Atkins became synonymous with the controversial low-carb regime that tapped into America's obsession with losing weight. After Atkins died in April at age 72, the fate of the so-called Atkins revolution was up in the air. But under the guidance of two low-profile magazine industry execs tapped by Atkins to run his company 3 years ago, the Atkins approach lives on. article: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-b...ness-headlines cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=223 10-19 - Atkins Nutritionals opens Aurora, CO facility Denver Post Atkins Nutritionals Inc. is attempting to meet burgeoning demand for low-carb foods west of the Mississippi more quickly by opening a huge distribution center in Aurora, CO. The 145,000-sq. ft. warehouse opened Oct. 1. From there, the company ships about 15 truck trailers daily full of Atkins brand low-carb muffin mixes, protein bars, shakes and other foods to Western retailers and consumers. article: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...706688,00.html cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=226 10-19 - Bread industry looks for ways to counter the low-carb craze Kansas City Star The bread industry is banding together to look for ways to counter the low-carb diet trend. The effort comes on the heels of research from the recently formed National Bread Leadership Council, which found that an estimated 40% of consumers say they're eating less bread than a year ago. The fledgling organization is holding its first National Bread Summit next month. Carbs are expected to be a big topic. article: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercuryne...ss/7051129.htm cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=227 10-16 - High times for low-carb Orange County Register 30 years ago, people laughed at Robert Atkins. Nutritionists snickered at the low-carb diet. The AMA snarled, calling it "potentially dangerous," and "biochemically incorrect." Congress even held hearings. When Dr. Atkins died in April, he had barely had time to enjoy how his once-shunned eating ideas have been embraced by at least 12 million people in the US and how a new food industry has sprung up around the diet: grocery stores, food manufacturers and restaurants dedicated to low-carb foods. article: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/7031073.htm cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=217 10-10 - Low-carb diets blamed for decline in orange juice sales AP via Wichita Eagle The popularity of the Atkins and South Beach diets appears to be slimming down Florida's citrus industry and now juice makers are studying how to counter the trend. Sales of orange juice, which is high in sugar, have been dropping for two years now. In the past year, sales of refrigerated orange juice were down 1.2%, and sales of frozen concentrated orange juice dropped 18.5%. article: Low-carb diets blamed for decline in orange juice sales 10-07 - Eggs v potatoes: The Atkins diet stand-off BBC News Two foodstuffs are vying for our attention with national awareness campaigns this week. One promotion is buoyed by burgeoning sales, thanks in part to a trendy weight-loss plan; the other sets its cap at a nation suddenly shunning starchy foods. "Oh dear, is it potato week as well?" says a spokeswoman for the British Egg Council. "I guess it is an Atkins showdown." article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3167556.stm cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=193 10-01 - Boost for bread BakeryAndSnacks.com Britain’s Federation of Bakers will next month be hoping to improve the image of bread, still one of the nation’s favourite staple foods but suffering from the growing popularity of the US-imported low-carb diet. ‘British Bread Month’ running throughout October will aim to encourage consumers to eat 'an extra slice a day' as, penny for penny, bread is the most nutritionally rich food available, claims the bread industry. article: http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/news/news.asp?id=414 cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=182 09-28 - Weigh****chers bursts at seams - thanks to Atkins The Independent Weigh****chers, the flabby older sister of the Atkins diet, is bursting at the seams. The world's best-known diet club is claiming its highest UK membership ever with more than 7 million Britons - about one in six adults - now on the scheme. Weigh****chers' resurgence is being put down to, among other things, a combination of anxieties about the potential health risks of "crash diets" such as the Atkins, and the endorsement of celebrities ranging from Hollywood stars to the Duchess of York. article: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/hea...p?story=447774 cached: http://www.bestmessageboard.com/Disp...vArticleID=176 ========= started 10-99: 163-146-155-139-? ========= Low Carb Savvy Shopper - losing lbs and saving $$$ http://lowcarbshopper.bestmessageboard.com |
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thanks! i see many articles i haven't read!
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