Food|beverage retailing practices have placed increasing emphasis on shelf management. While price is the major economic factor influencing sales of individual products, other nonprice factors such as number of facings, shelf height, and season of the year, are also paramount to the sales of...

Five wineries ranging in size from 10,000 to 900,000 gallons were analyzed as to investment and operating costs and the impacts of changing product and input prices on their relative financial attractiveness. The larger wineries, while being more costly to establish, offer lower per unit...