China

What’s driving China’s meat consumption?

Rising income levels may be resulting in more meat consumption in China, but there are more factors at play in the evolution of Chinese demand for meat.

Eighty percent of China’s meat purchases are offline; however, this is changing, and the infrastructure is already well-established to facilitate online purchases.

Brand Insights

Research and new technologies to improve poultry health

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WATTPoultry.com and Poultry Future help vets and poultry health professionals keep up with the latest research and technological advancements so they can promote flock health and welfare. Brand Insights from WATT Global Media

Research and new technologies to improve poultry health

KFC opens 500th location in Shanghai

This particular store offers special features to promote positive social change

Could China’s egg industry go cage-free?

While the term free range may be familiar to Chinese consumers, cage-free is not. Significant change will be needed both up- and downstream for egg producers to benefit from abandoning traditional cages.

Paper egg carton with white eggs and conceptual word, CAGE FREE, isolated on white background.

Broilers & Turkeys

BRF gains more access to China

Brazil-based poultry and pork company BRF has gained additional clearance to ship products to China, the company said in an announcement to the market on its investor relations webpage.

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Broilers & Turkeys

China's reopening little benefit to local poultry industry

Chicken meat output will be only marginally higher in 2023.

A plump young asian woman, dressed in a green suit, eats hamburgers while working on a laptop in a fast food restaurant.

Broilers & Turkeys

BRF plant gains clearance to export to China

BRF’s poultry plant in Marau, Brazil, has grained clearance to export chicken products processed there to China.

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Consumer Trends

Outlook for China’s poultry industry flat in 2023

Broiler meat producers, particularly larger concerns, may expect some improvements in 2023, but for the yellow feather market conditions remain tough.

With consumers looking to save money and access to live bird markets still being restricted, producers of yellow feather birds are continuing to lose market share as cheaper white feather broilers gain in popularity. PamelaJoeMcFarlane

Broilers & Turkeys

New Tyson plants to go online in China, Malaysia in 2023

To help meet the growing demand in overseas markets, United States-based Tyson Foods expects to have four new plants in production before the end of 2023.

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Maxunitech acquires Inner Mongolia Shijie Chemicals

Chinese agrochemical company Maxunitech acquired the majority share of Inner Mongolia Shijie Chemicals with self-financing from its original shareholders.

Popeyes expands into Chinese market

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen will be making its way to customers in China.

HUDSON, WI/USA - JUNE 7, 2019: Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen exterior. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is an American chain of fried chicken fast food restaurants.

Broilers & Turkeys

Top world broiler and egg rankings for 2021

The latest edition of Poultry International’s World’s Top Poultry Companies shows reveals some significant changes in the global rankings, and increasing dominance of a handful of companies.

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The 11th International Poultry Forum China 2022

Poultry International China will hold its 11th International Poultry Forum (IPFC) July 21 in the Shandong Province of China this year, in partnership with WATT Global Media and with the support of the World’s Poultry Science Association.

White broiler chicken in a Poultry Farm

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