Building Partnerships and Alliances in the European Food Industry

Hughes, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-50001-5_6

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“…It is estimated that the modern supermarket often carries a product range of 10,000 to 15,000 products and turns over perhaps 10% or more of these every year. A leading UK food retailer is said to introduce around 1,500 new own-label products alone in 1993, compared with 300 in 1987 (Hughes, 1994).…”

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A framework for analysing innovation in the food sector

Grunert¹,

Harmsen²,

Meulenberg³

et al. 1997

Products and Process Innovation in the Food Industry

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PREFACEThe present text has been prepared by the members of the 'Innovation' subgroup of the EU Concerted Action 'Structural Change in the Food Industry', co-ordinated by Professor Bruce Traill, University of Reading.The text serves a dual purpose. It is intended as a review of the literature on the determinants of innovation and innovativeness and their impact on business performance, with a special view to the food industry. As such, it stands alone and can be read by itself. But it also serves as the theoretical framework for a series of case studies conducted by the members of the subgroup, which are currently underway. These case studies, interpreted on the background of the concepts detailed in this paper, will allow the derivation of a more detailed framework for the analysis of innovation in the food industry, which will then be amenable to quantitative analysis.

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Section: Demand-pullmentioning

confidence: 99%

A framework for analysing innovation in the food sector

Grunert¹,

Harmsen²,

Meulenberg³

et al. 1997

Products and Process Innovation in the Food Industry

110

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“…The last years, significant changes have taken place in the agri-food industry, creating this way a new business era for companies operating in the sector (Eastham et al, 2001 andHughes, 1994). One of the most important developments was the introduction of Internet.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Internet-based applications in the agri-food supply chain: a survey on the Greek canning sector

Manthou

Matopoulos

Vlachopoulou

2005

Journal of Food Engineering

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In the agri-food industry, Internet-based applications changed the way companies conduct business mainly by facilitating activities that were already taking place, rather by giving birth to virtual networks creation. Due to the specific characteristics of the sector, Internet's huge potential has not been fully exploited yet, still remaining a new communication tool. This paper aims at giving empirical insights regarding the use of Internetbased applications in the agri-food supply chain, by focusing on the Greek fruit canning sector. In particular, the paper identifies companies' perceptions regarding perceived benefits, constrained factors and motivation factors towards the use of Internet-based applications. Results indicate that companies recognise benefits arising from the use of Internet, however they still use traditional ways when communicating with their partners. Regarding transportation issues, while companies' overall satisfaction is rather moderate and differs significantly from the importance placed on a number of criteria, companies are still sceptical in using Electronic Transportation Marketplace * .

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“…The entrance of global retailers, industry's consolidation, changing consumer consumption attitudes, as well as, the existence of more strict regulations and laws regarding food production as a result of the recent food crises (Hughes, 1994, Kaufman, 1999, Fearne et al 2004, have altered the business environment for most of the companies operating in the sector, encouraging integration and improvement attitude. The impact of Internet on supply chain integration has not been very important.…”

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Integrating supply chain operations in the internet era

Matopoulos¹,

Manthou²,

Vlachopoulou³

2007

IJLSM

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The internet's potential impact on supply chain operations is often approached in the literature in a quite generic way due to the complex nature of supply chains and the different levels of operations' integration. Drawing on existing research, this paper proposes an overall framework of supply chain integration and then attempts to provide a categorisation of the internet's role in the supply chain activities, providing insights from various sectors. The purpose of this paper is to describe and present the alternative ways that the internet impacts on the integration of supply chain operations, by comparing four different sectors: the automotive, the computer, the food and the grocery sector. The paper concludes that in the food, grocery and computer sector, internet's impact on supply chain operations has been quite poor, particularly forward integration, while it has been significant, in the backward integration of the automotive sector.

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Building Partnerships and Alliances in the European Food Industry

Cited by 46 publications

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A framework for analysing innovation in the food sector

A framework for analysing innovation in the food sector

Internet-based applications in the agri-food supply chain: a survey on the Greek canning sector

Integrating supply chain operations in the internet era

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