'Small-batch production - knowing where food is made and who made it.'

Nice new Wall Street Journal article on specialty food processing.  ‘Between the lines’, it’s clear that the world needs professional, small-batch, regional, food processing capacities. 

“The specialty food business is booming. The National Association for the Specialty Food Trade says the sector hit a record $88.3 billion in sales in 2013, and continued to grow in 2014. The association attributed the sector’s popularity to “growing concern” among consumers about sustainability and health, as well as increased interest in “small-batch production”—knowing where food is made and who made it."

Wall Street Journal article,  Food 'Accelerators' and the $10 Bag of Pasta"  

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79 loans.  56 countries.

72% Female.    28% male.

85% - 90% invested in food related enterprises.

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