California Olive Oil Industry Strategic Landscape

A digitally-delivered study, with data and narrative components, including financial models, updated statistics, and forecasting tools.

The audience

Millers, farmland investors, lenders and crop insurers, grocery retailers.

The idea

A digitally-delivered study, with data and narrative components, including financial models, updated statistics, and forecasting tools.

Topics

  • California milling and bottling capacity
  • California vs import supply
  • Consumer demand: Is growth inevitable? If it is higher or lower, what impact would that have on millers → growers
  • How are SHD growers impacted by Cobram's preferred production system?
    • Long-term leases and supply contracts coming up for renegotiation
    • What investments would be required to transition to new system, or is it time to get out of the market?
  • What is the collective financial position of oil olive growers? By geography, varietal.
  • What is the competitive position of the remaining millers?
  • How do size and geography matter?
  • How can growers and millers navigate constraints and take advantage of opportunities?