--- title: "Digits: Accountants, the egg-conomy, and more wild new numbers - The Hustle" description: "Digits: Accountants, the egg-conomy, and more wild new numbers" image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1669225630-HS-News-Brief_2023-01-23T005811.452Z.webp --- # Digits: Accountants, the egg-conomy, and more wild new numbers ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: January 23, 2023 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1)** The plant-based meat industry is struggling to vegetate. Sales volume at supermarkets was [**down 14% last year**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-19/beyond-meat-bynd-impossible-foods-burgers-are-just-another-food-fad?sref=3Ac2yX40&leadSource=uverify%20wall), and orders dropped 9% at fast-food spots. ![Digits: Accountants, the egg-conomy, and more wild new numbers](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1669225630-HS-News-Brief_2023-01-23T005811.452Z.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1669225630-HS-News-Brief_2023-01-23T005811.452Z.webp) **2) **Egg-gregious. Consumer advocacy group Farm Action is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the egg industry for price fixing. The group says Cal-Maine Foods saw $535.34m in gross profits in the 26 weeks ending Nov. 26 — [**10x the profits**](https://farmaction.us/2023/01/19/farm-action-calls-for-ftc-to-investigate-record-high-egg-prices/) they saw during the same period in 2021. **3)** Konnichiwa, Japanese liquor industry. With a depreciating yen and the growing global popularity of Japanese cuisine, liquor exports from Japan [**jumped 60% in 2021**](https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Japanese-liquor-makes-little-splash-in-global-market) to 114.7B yen ($868m), and, in 2022, surpassed that level by October. Still, Japan represents just 0.1% of the global alcohol market. **4) **They’ve had it with the number crunching. In the US, [**300k+ accountants and auditors**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-season-is-coming-and-these-firms-cant-find-enough-accountants-in-the-u-s-11674009403?mod=hp_lista_pos1) have quit in the last two years. Now, industry giants like KPMG and PwC are outsourcing work overseas, where workers can handle up to 95% of an audit. **5) **The secondary luxury watch market is on track to surpass the primary-sale market by 2033. In 2022, primary sales hit ~$56B and secondaries notched ~$27B. By 2033, they [**could reach~ $81B and ~$86B**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-12/secondary-watch-market-to-top-new-sales-by-2033-at-85-billion?), respectively. 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