The appearance of consumers groups increasingly concerned about the quality of food products, togetherwith an increasingly competitive environment and domestic saturated markets, has led companies to achievingdifferentiated quality. The wine sector is immersed in this situation. Valuation of...

School milk consumption has declined steadily in Germany. A research project was set up to retrieve quantifiableinformation on the different factors of influence and to develop solutions to improve the school milk consumption.. The maingoal is to evaluate the impact of price, product range,...

In our research we examine the foreign investments from the change of regime, privatization; EUaccession, possibilities offered by subventions (2004-2006); so the experiences of the last 15 years, and we draw upthe expectations from the actual New Hungary Rural Development and National...

Since 1994 Argentinean government implemented the diversification policy to reduce wine supply in thedomestic market and stabilize prices through reducing the share of grapes allocated for wine production in favour ofmust production. The policy has set a minimum percentage of grapes for...

This paper examines the existence of convergence and distribution dynamics of food price inflation rateswithin the European Union. Differences in such specific price index inflation rates and changes in their regionaldistributions reflect largely differences and developments in market conditions...

Palm oil is the most consumed and traded vegetable oils in the EU and the world. Increasing non-food uses forvegetable oils in especially feedstock of biofuels in recent years have caused the price volatility to rise in both EUand global market. The most efficient pricing of crude palm oil (CPO)...

The globalization of markets, increased specialization in customers services, shorter lead times,are among the main factors influencing the change in firms organization. The firms disintegrationis growing, leading to an increased demand for collaborative management along the supplychain. The...

Farmers Markets are receiving an increasing attention by both food chains actors and socialscientists. Economic and sociological studies are contributing to the comprehension of theseforms of exchange. Both consumers and producers are fostering their expectations about therenewal of a mode of...

Food consumers often query or ignore the risk assessments of scientists, the food industry andpublic bodies. This is widely acknowledged. It has been suggested that this ‘expert-lay discrepancy’is a relatively straightforward upshot of the fact that lay people lack the knowledge andtechnical...

This paper aims at comparing the innovative potential of leading food processing companies inemerging and developed economies. We asked ourselves how the clearly differing economicand social conditions of two areas that are only comparable in terms of their number ofinhabitants (about 16 to 18...