China becomes world’s largest grocery market

Figures published today show that China has now overtaken the US as the world’s biggest food and grocery retail market. Research from the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) placed a value of UK£607 billion (US$962bn) on the Chinese grocery market at the end of 2011, while the US market dropped to second place at £572bn…

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