Outgrow your problem

“Impossible is something that people try to reason to themselves in order for the status quo to remain the same" by la papillion

In this case, if we apply it to a company

“Impossible is something that company try to reason to itself in order for the profitability/growth to remain the same if not declining"

For example, OLAM, OLAM was a middleman all along, until one day the founder found that it is increasingly under competition in the sense that more and more growers/planters bypassed them and went directly to the buyers. It then launched an ambitious project to go upstream and the rest is history.

The coming inFLATion

 

- SWF monies in commdities and related companies

- cranking $$ printing press

- banks flooded with hot monies are forced to look for new ways to optimize its net interest margin after stern property cooling measures, particularly in Hong Kong and Singapore

-last but not least, the disappearing food bonus, food and petrol subsidies has been reduced a couple of times in a year in a South East Asia nation, which will lead to a permanent 10-15%(wild guess) increment in consumer goods prices(especially staple food items)in neighbouring countries.

Structural change in palm oil demand

Palm oil today is found in a variety of food and beverages produced by multinationals.  After the banning of usage of trans fat by FDA about a year ago, US imports of palm oil soared. Today palm oil is everywhere, from biscuits, cosmetics, herbicides, to soaps. You can obtain latest information about palm oil development thru Malaysian Palm Oil Board's web site and newsletter.You can also keep abreast of latest news on palm oil thru Google News here.