World Pear Review - 2011 Edition

The 2011 edition of the World Pear Review comes at a time when the global pear industry is facing a major crossroads from which it can either renew itself, or gradually be pushed aside by competing fruits. The World Pear Review documents the current challenges and offers suggestions on how the pear industry can reverse its fortunes in the next decade. Among the key topics are:

• Healing the disconnect between market needs and producer preferences.
• Why the traditional marketing model for fresh fruit is failing.
• Can the world market handle 20 percent more pears by 2020?
• Is a recovery coming in western pears?
• Restoring the "Wow" factor to pears in major markets.
• Concentration of pear sales increasing. Fewer major varieties.
• Pears join scramble for new varieties.
• Can price peak in 2008 be regained after recession ends?
• What to do about declining western markets.
• Can import growth in Russia and China continue?
• What countries offer the most promising new markets?
• Will organic production be part of the solution?
• Upstaging the competition in the fruit aisle.
• Retailers are threatening to move to smaller stores. What will be the effect?
• Retailers now measuring the performance of each SKU. How will pears rate?
• Understanding retailers' new-found social conscience.
• Is there a "carbon footprint" in your future?
• Can pear prices regain 2008 levels?
• Pear producer prosperity heavily tied to trade.
• Most pear trade now between neighbors. But future supply increases will require exporters to operate successfully in more distant lands.
• Ability to employ the latest technology and scope out new markets will separate winners from losers.
• Fewer, but larger, and more efficient firms becoming more dominant.
• Big changes coming in China. What will that mean for exporters, importers, other producing countries?
• Africa is becoming more important as producer and consumer of pears.
• Can the pear processing industry get out of its present rut?
• Why improvements in on-farm productivity, innovation and industry-wide activities will be crucial to future pear industry success.

The 2011 edition of the World Pear Review contains over 30 new tables and 15 new charts (many never before published), a detailed table of contents and a complete country index. Click on Table of Contents for detailed information on chapters, topics, tables and charts. To order your copy, click, here and complete the pop-up order form and email, mail or fax to:

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