U.S. Food & Ingredients Available For Export
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Please find below a partial list of our National Brands available for export.
We are sorry to announce but as of 01/01/2012 Packson Atlantic will no longer offer CIF terms to new clients.
Transportation assistance is offered under separate contract and charter by sister corporation should you request it.
Minimum Spot or Term purchase: 20/MT to 100/MT subject to product choice.
U.S. NATIONAL BRANDS (Partial List)
Anchor Packaging®
Austin Blues® Awrey's® Basic American® Bernardi® Berry Plastics® Blue Bunny® Bob Evans® Café H® Candle Lamp® Cardinal Carlisle® Cedar Canyon® Chef Pierre® Clorox® Coca Cola® Country Fresh® Dart® Dinex® Dispoz-o® Douwe® Egberts® Fabri-Kal® Farmland® Fontanini® FoodHandler® |
Frito-Lay®
Gatorade® General Mills® Genpak® Grecian Delight® Heinz® Hidden Valley® Hillshire Farms® Hoffmaster® Hormel® Icelandic Brand Seafood® Javo® Jimmy Dean® Johnsonville® Jones Dairy Farms® Keebler® Kellogg's® King & Prince® La Nova® Lamb Weston® Libbey Glass® Lincoln® Maxwell House® McCain® Minor's® |
Minute Maid®
Nabisco® Nestlé® Ocean Spray® Pactiv® Patrick Cudahy® Perdue® Pierce® Pillsbury® Purell® Reynolds® Rich's® Rubbermaid® Sabert® Sara Lee® SCA Tissue® Sea Legs® Solo® Steak-EZE® Sweet Street® Tampa Maid® TNT® Trident® Tyson® WNA® |
Upon review of above, should you require a full disclosure including current price quote, please feel free to submit your request along with contact credentials and include Proof of Funds Letter drawn on U.S. Bank evidencing value equal to or greater than intended monthly purchase.
(Example: Dole® Pineapple Chunks, 106oz-Can, SKU #, 10,000-cases)
MODERN HISTORY
Almost all foods are of plant or animal origin. Cereal grain is a staple food that provides more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop. Maize, wheat, and rice - in all of their varieties - account for 87% of all grain production worldwide.
Institutions such as hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks like Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been instrumental in pushing up prices in the last five years, with investment in food commodities rising from $65bn to $126bn (£41bn to £79bn) between 2007 and 2012, contributing to 30-year highs. This has caused price fluctuations which are not strongly related to the actual supply of food, according to the United Nations. Financial institutions now make up 61% of all investment in wheat futures. According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. De Schutter told the Independent in March 2012: "What we are seeing now is that these financial markets have developed massively with the arrival of these new financial investors, who are purely interested in the short-term monetary gain and are not really interested in the physical thing – they never actually buy the ton of wheat or maize; they only buy a promise to buy or to sell. The result of this financialisation of the commodities market is that the prices of the products respond increasingly to a purely speculative logic. This explains why in very short periods of time we see prices spiking or bubbles exploding, because prices are less and less determined by the real match between supply and demand." In 2011, 450 economists from around the world called on the G20 to regulate the commodities market more.
Some experts have said that speculation has merely aggravated other factors, such as climate change, competition with bio-fuels and overall rising demand. However, some such as Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, have pointed out that prices have increased irrespective of supply and demand issues: Ghosh points to world wheat prices, which doubled in the period from June to December 2010, despite there being no fall in global supply.
The World Bank reported that the European Union was the top food importer in 2005, followed at a distance by the USA and Japan. Food is now traded and marketed on a global basis. The variety and availability of food is no longer restricted by the diversity of locally grown food or the limitations of the local growing season. Between 1961 and 1999, there was a 400% increase in worldwide food exports. Some countries are now economically dependent on food exports, which in some cases account for over 80% of all exports.
(Example: Dole® Pineapple Chunks, 106oz-Can, SKU #, 10,000-cases)
MODERN HISTORY
Almost all foods are of plant or animal origin. Cereal grain is a staple food that provides more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop. Maize, wheat, and rice - in all of their varieties - account for 87% of all grain production worldwide.
Institutions such as hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks like Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been instrumental in pushing up prices in the last five years, with investment in food commodities rising from $65bn to $126bn (£41bn to £79bn) between 2007 and 2012, contributing to 30-year highs. This has caused price fluctuations which are not strongly related to the actual supply of food, according to the United Nations. Financial institutions now make up 61% of all investment in wheat futures. According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. De Schutter told the Independent in March 2012: "What we are seeing now is that these financial markets have developed massively with the arrival of these new financial investors, who are purely interested in the short-term monetary gain and are not really interested in the physical thing – they never actually buy the ton of wheat or maize; they only buy a promise to buy or to sell. The result of this financialisation of the commodities market is that the prices of the products respond increasingly to a purely speculative logic. This explains why in very short periods of time we see prices spiking or bubbles exploding, because prices are less and less determined by the real match between supply and demand." In 2011, 450 economists from around the world called on the G20 to regulate the commodities market more.
Some experts have said that speculation has merely aggravated other factors, such as climate change, competition with bio-fuels and overall rising demand. However, some such as Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, have pointed out that prices have increased irrespective of supply and demand issues: Ghosh points to world wheat prices, which doubled in the period from June to December 2010, despite there being no fall in global supply.
The World Bank reported that the European Union was the top food importer in 2005, followed at a distance by the USA and Japan. Food is now traded and marketed on a global basis. The variety and availability of food is no longer restricted by the diversity of locally grown food or the limitations of the local growing season. Between 1961 and 1999, there was a 400% increase in worldwide food exports. Some countries are now economically dependent on food exports, which in some cases account for over 80% of all exports.