Value Chain Focus
IBD is truly integrated with the value chain; we must also look at other inputs and services that would enable synergies to be obtained for all Group business segments. Evaluations are being done to enter into businesses such as fertilizer, seeds, analytical laboratory services, marketing research and business process outsourcing to complement and enhance the existing upstream and downstream segments.
Origination Focus
IBD is engaged in the sourcing of several farm plantations in regional markets worldwide. This sourcing and quantity entailed primary processing, warehousing, transporting, freight, distributing, and that entailed a risk management program at each stage of the value chain.
Since our inception in 1994, IBD evolved from a single nation, solitary product speculator to a multi-country, multi-product supply chain manager. In that procedure of progression and also development, our structure model has actually grown allover, searching for value chain proximities which both complement as well as boost our core supply chain model. The key to our vast primary enterprise is a repeatable and also scalable formula that has definitely let us to enhance and also broaden our core in different means.
Upstream Focus
Building on Bing present and also new capabilities, IBD detected excess return integration possibilities in the upstream section of the value chain and began making financial investments on a discerning basis. These financial investments have actually led to plantation ownership, processing facilities and forestry management; we are in the process to enter into businesses such as fertilizer, seeds, marketing research and business process outsourcing to complement and enhance the existing upstream and downstream segments.
These prospects have been a value added to our organization. Our upstream segment presently includes among many: rice production in Latin America and India, organic coffee plantations, palm oil plantations in Columbia, banana plantations in Dominican Republic and in Ecuador.
Downstream Focus
In the midstream part of the value chain, we are pursuing initiatives in value added processing and also manufacturing tasks that are relevant to our existing portfolio.
We have certainly invested in our packaged food products and also its marketing in several Middle Eastern along with European countries. The base for this downstream task is based on our know-how as well as abilities linked with the control of food supply chains and the typical distribution pipeline that we have actually created for associated asset products in all continents.
Our Packaged Foods Company branch markets an assortment of branded packaged food products to clients throughout multiple markets.