Consumer Products, Wholesale and Retail Distribution

Recession-wary consumers
choose to buy local

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2009, people around the world may have been grateful to see another year, but the wholesalers and retailers among them may not have been so happy about having to face the dawn of waning consumer confidence and dismal sales.

The last quarter of 2008 was an uncertain time for local industry and commerce, with the global economic crisis shifting attitudes from euphoria and excess to caution and panic.