Retailers to meet at World Food Business Summit

The summit, with the theme Growth and Sustainability - Building Profit with Responsibility - is hosted by CIES, the Food Business Forum in Munich, Germany until June 20.

Delegates will be discussing issues including food security; food safety; rocketing commodity prices, fuel prices and other input costs; threats to energy supplies; and environmentally sustainable development.

Other topics on the agenda are the impact of biofuels on food production; changing eating patterns; global warming and its effect on food production; and changing consumer habits and demands.

CEOs, chairmen and senior executives representing more than 430 of the world's largest retailers, suppliers and manufacturers will attend the summit.

"Food-related challenges are also not uniform the world over - but, in our globalised world, what happens in one country affects people on the other side of the world," said CIES CEO Alan McClay.

For more information on the summit, visit: http://www.ciessummit.com/

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