Option on tertiary packaging if commodity producer is willing to print or apply.

Like most commodity producers, Alcan is experiencing a boom.

A growing Japan would help to stem deflationary forces in the world, helping manufacturers and commodity producers.

Over the last month or so, emerging markets and shares of commodity producers have been hit especially hard.

But cyclical commodity producers like Alcoa should still be reporting relatively strong earnings.

Hey, you can even do the manufacturing or easily outsource it to a commodity producer.

If inflation is about to grip the economy, shares of commodity producers should continue to do well.

And the damage that had been done to commodity producers in the United States has not had a big impact on the economy.

The professors also found that commodities provided better diversification than shares in commodity producers like oil and mining companies.

"You can't compete as a commodity producer anymore," he said, "so we're going to be in the retail business."