California Olive Oil Industry Strategic Landscape

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

California olive orchard

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?