Key & Company - Investment Bankers for Food and Agriculture Companies

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The Food sector includes branded, private label food and food service manufacturers. Increasingly, retailers will obtain more power in directing supply choices on valuable shelf space and will compete in large categories with their own house brands. Food service companies will continue to experience growth.

Key & Company believes several emerging trends will direct its investments in food companies, as follows:

•	Strong brands will increasingly be concentrated in large consumer packaged food companies
•	Growth will be found in those companies that supply retail channels with high quality private label, fresh and prepared foods while simultaneously reducing in-store labor costs.
•	Consumers will have increased interest in natural and organic foods.
•	Functional foods will increasingly be used to deliver nutritional supplements and vitamins and drugs to an aging nation.
•	Large branded food companies will consolidate into multinational firms serving mass markets thus giving rise to a growing number of smaller specialized firms serving niche markets.