"We will keep both options -- imported and locally produced fresh milk -- available to the Chinese market, as we do witness a certain silo of Chinese consumers who aspire to top-notch products and are willing to pay a premium," said Bo Shuangyu, vice-president for consumer business at Fonterra China.

恒天然中国消费者业务副总裁Bo双玉表示：“我们将保留进口和本地生产的新鲜牛奶这两种选择，因为我们确实看到了一批渴望顶级产品并愿意支付溢价的中国消费者。”。

Its warehousing facilities are made up of large house granaries, shallow bins, tower silos and various oil storage tankers, with main varieties of reserves including wheat, rice, corn, soybeans, cotton and edible oils.

"Healthcare is very much structured in silos.

"First of all, they said today's analytics is happening in silos, meaning various parts of the company are running their own analytics, and tend to produce conflicting results sometimes," said Dimitrios Dosis, president of Mastercard Advisors, during a recent interview in Beijing.

Effective June 6, 2020, Disney's latest theme park will add a "Regular Plus" silo on top of the existing three levels of Regular, Peak and Peak Plus (currently known as Holiday Peak).

While most companies split profits based on work units, something he said promotes "silo thinking", Gensler does so on a firm-wide basis.

However, he does believe that work and life should be cast in their own silos.

In terms of intensifying its investment and trade cooperation in other BRICS economies, the company has been bolstering the construction of soybean crushing plants, refining facilities, sugar mills, ports and silos, as part of its processing and logistics infrastructure development in these four countries, Lyu said.

The meeting urged localities to fulfill their due responsibilities with the bigger picture in mind, and take resolute steps to break a conservative mindset and guard against a silo mentality.

Resolute steps should be taken to break fixed mindset and guard against silo mentality, according to the meeting.

"Customers are no longer categorized in traditional silos like age groups or professions, but the true 'social circles' they belong to," she said.

The first silo is middle-income earners and above, typically residing in top-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and willing to pay a premium for quality, said global consultancy KPMG in its research on consumer insights released earlier this month.

Data that are really meaningful should be integrated and analyzed to break information silos and achieve data sharing.

There are key issues and risks in data connectivity, and it is important to strike a proper balance between breaking the information silo and data security.

Online platforms in fields such as e-commerce, digital payments, and delivery services may even gain access to huge amount of social data in the name of innovation or breaking up information silo.