Addresses the way in which Conserves Modernes Chtaura (CMC) of Lebanon is tackling the challenges of increased competition in the Lebanese food industry. Describes the company’s attempts to re‐structure its supply chain to improve links with farmers and raise quality standards, as the...

Presents recent evidence of supply chain developments in the UK fresh produce industry, based on interviews with chief executives from some of the country’s most successful suppliers. A number of success factors were evident, to varying degrees, in all of the companies interviewed. These...

This paper summarises how the Scottish agri‐food industry has been developing farm and quality assurance activities since the early 1990s as it seeks to strengthen its competitive position. It also outlines the European system of third party certification for quality assurance schemes. The...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the influence of power on the depth of collaboration by discussing the power relations and collaborative relationships between buyers and suppliers in networks. The aim is to shed light on how power position in a network influences the depth of...

Purpose Much has been written about the importance of external integration for the integrity of food products. To achieve food integrity, all actors along the supply chain have to be fully integrated and comply with an assurance system or process. The more complex the supply chain operations...

Purpose – This paper aims to report research into emergent supply chain management (SCM) practices in a context in which the imperative for business development requires efficient inter-firm collaboration. It explores the way key supply chain (SC) actors perceive entrepreneurial opportunities...

Purpose – Highlights the advantages of relationship marketing though a case study of Cervena, an “ appellation controllée ” for New Zealand venison, which helped it to carve out a new market among diners at top restaurants in the USA. Design/method/approach – Demonstrates that New...

Purpose – To investigate why, despite a significant fall in price, robot sales in the UK in 2005 were static with very few sales to small companies. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the latest survey of robot sales in the UK produced by British Automation and Robot Association (BARA),...