After toilet paper, flour, disinfectants now the United States is short of ketchup. Like hot cakes, writes the Wall Street Journal, especially the single-dose sachets, since with restaurants open only for take-away food or for home delivery it is no longer possible to use the condiment in bottles at the tables. At the same time, with people forced to stay at home, the consumption of ketchup bottles has increased.
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The boom in demand has also cornered the main producer of red sauce, Heinz. Although the multinational has control of 70 percent of the ketchup market, it was not prepared for the pandemic and decided to open two new factories to meet the demands in order to increase production by 25 percent.
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Always according to what the Wsj the tomato-based sauce is the most consumed on the tables of restaurants in the USA. Last year 300,000 tons were produced. The numbers increase further when it comes to domestic consumption, in that sector sales exceeded one billion dollars in 2020, equal to 15 percent more than in 2019.
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