China's grocery market overtakes the US as biggest in the world. Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD), Apr 2, 2012 http://www.igd.com/index.asp?id= ... tid=90&cid=2327
(Joanne Denney-Finch, chief executive, IGD, said: "This rapid expansion has been fuelled by three main factors: rapid economic growth, population and rising food inflation")