What is the US retail market for bottled soy sauce?

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 24 Aug 2006 04:34 PDT

Mirrors,

I can provide you with the retail value of soy sauce sales in the
United States for the years 1998 and 1980.

Would these figures be of your interest?

Thanks, 
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by mirrors-ga on 25 Aug 2006 13:49 PDT

Lokking for the most up-to-date numbers.
1980 is woefully out of date as well as 1998.
Thank you for trying.
Joe

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 25 Aug 2006 14:04 PDT

Joe,

Perhaps the information below will work for you. The figures can be
used to obtain a ballpark estimate of the U.S. soy sauce market.

Kikkoman, that has global sales in the region of $2 billion (?1.5
billion), is best known for the 400 million litres of soy sauce,
brewed from soybeans, wheat and salt, that it supplies to the global
market
http://www.ap-foodtechnology.com/news/ng.asp?id=56334-soy-seasoning-leader

?According to Mogi, Kikkoman expanded its business into the United
States in 1973 after demand in Japan had leveled off, and at present
operations overseas account for 22% of the company's sales and half
its total profits. Sales in the United States make up some 80% of
total foreign sales and 40% of the company's profits. Additionally, he
notes, US sales have grown at an annual rate of 10% over the past 30
years, giving Kikkoman a 56% share of a market in which its nearest
competitor does not even have 30%.?
February 2005
http://www.fpcj.jp/e/mres/viewsfromjapan/vfj_12.html?PHPSESSID=cd4779b0fbc173e01a345c1fa07fb150

What do you think?

Bobbie7