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Indonesia's Modern Retail Food Sector: Interaction With Changing Food Consumption and Trade Patterns

Dyck, John H.; Woolverton, Andrea E.; Rangkuti, Fahwani … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012

Indonesia’s food market has changed in response to a changing and growing economy. The report examines changes in the food consumption pattern and measures the growth of modern food retail chains, packaged food purchases, and food imports in the world’s fourth-most-populous country. The...

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SUPERMARKET CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATING COSTS IN LOW-INCOME AREAS

King, Robert P.; Leibtag, Ephraim S.; Behl, Ajay S. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2004

Whether the poor pay more for food than other income groups is an important question in food price policy research. Stores serving low-income shoppers differ in important ways from stores that receive less of their revenues from Food Stamp redemptions. Stores with more revenues from Food Stamps...

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UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF PRODUCE MARKETS: CONSUMPTION AND CONSOLIDATION GROW

Kaufman, Phillip R.; Handy, Charles R.; McLaughlin, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2000

Mergers, acquisitions, and internal growth among grocery retailers, largely since 1996, have increased the share of grocery store sales accounted for by the largest 4, 8, and 20 food retailers nationwide. Similar consolidation is occurring among food wholesalers. At the same time, new packaged...

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Future Role Of Cooperatives In Marketing Beans, Peas, And Lentils

Smith, Art - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980

market concentration. Cooperatives do, 'however, have the potential to counteract their competition's position by pooling …

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Grocery Retailing Concentration in Metropolitan Areas, 1954-82

Kaufman, Phillip R.; Newton, Doris J.; Handy, Charles R. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1993

Grocery retailing concentration in U.S. cities increased on average in 1982, continuing a long-term trend. The all …-SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area) average four-firm concentration level in grocery retailing rose to 58.3 percent in 1982 … Census of Retail Trade, previously unpublished. The four-firm concentration level ranged from 27 percent in Appleton, WI, to …

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CONSOLIDATION IN U.S. MEATPACKING

MacDonald, James M.; Ollinger, Michael; Nelson, Kenneth E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2000

Meatpacking consolidated rapidly in the last two decades: slaughter plants became much larger, and concentration …

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THE U.S. FOOD MARKETING SYSTEM, 2002: COMPETITION, COORDINATION, AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

Harris, James Michael; Kaufman, Phillip R.; Martinez, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2002

foreign direct investments. The report also contains a comprehensive set of appendix tables containing sales, concentration …

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The U.S. Food Marketing System: Recent Developments, 1997-2006

Martinez, Stephen W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007

developments have contributed to sharp increases in concentration in the grocery retail sector, changing conventional relationships …

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Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth

Key, Nigel D.; Roberts, Michael J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007

commodity program payments and greater concentration in production. The analysis indicates that, at the regional level, higher …

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