Refrigerators in Emerging Markets Contain Cold, Hard Economic Data
The kitchen fridge, itself a marker of economic development, has the key ingredients to predict emerging-markets consumer trends.
Tassos Stassopoulos
June 17, 2014
Packs of Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl (CP Foods) frozen chicken nuggets are displayed in a refrigerator at the company's plant in Chok Chai, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. CP Foods, controlled by billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont, is the nation's biggest meat and animal-feed producer. Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg
Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg
