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Growth and Turnover of Food Processing Firms

1960
Proceedings of the Western Farm Economics Association Thirty-third Annual Meeting, Stanford, CA, August 23-26 ...
Collins, Norman R., Preston, Lee, Collins, Norman R., Preston, Lee   +3 more
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Food safety regulation and the firm: understanding the compliance process

Food Policy, 1998
Abstract An understanding of the process by which businesses comply with legal requirements is an essential, although frequently ignored, aspect of food safety regulation. The process of compliance is investigated through a postal survey and in-depth interviews with technical directors in a cross-section of food manufacturers and retailers in the UK.
Spencer Henson, Michael Heasman
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Food Processing Firms, Input Quality Upgrading and Trade

2015
In this paper the heterogeneous firms and trade literature is extended by integrating quality of inputs and outputs in a food and agricultural setting. Recently, Sexton (2013) has suggested that intermediate agricultural input quality is critical in food processing firms’ output quality and pricing decisions.
Tseng, Eric, Sheldon, Ian
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Persistent firm profitability in the US and EU food processing industry

2015
This article analyzes profit persistence as well as the drivers of profitability in the US and EU food industry using GMM estimations. Due to different structures in firm size comparable samples of US and EU food processors are derived using Propensity Score Matching.
Hirsch, Stefan, Gschwandtner, Adelina
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U.S. Firms Invest in Mexico's Processed Food Industry

1999
The 1994 North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was established to enhance trade. The successfulincrease in trade was accompanied by an even more important sharp increase in foreign direct investment (FOi) between the partners, especially between the United States and Mexico. U.S.
Bolling, Chris, Elizalde, Javier Calderon, Handy, Charles, Bolling, Chris, Elizalde, Javier Calderon, Handy, Charles   +5 more
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Diversification and Profitability Among Large Food Processing Firms

1970
Excerpts from the report Preface: Farmers and numerous legislative and economic groups concerned with agricultural policy have become increasingly aware of the conglomerate acquisitions and internal growth affecting food industries. In recent years, firms in food processing have, through internal and external growth, enlarged their product lines to ...
Arnould, Richard J., Arnould, Richard J.
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Export decisions of food processing firms in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma

Agribusiness, 1996
This research presents the results of a survey of food processing firms in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The differences between exporters and nonexporters, and the factors that contribute to a firm entering the export market were focal points of the survey.
Linda Byford, David Henneberry
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Critical success factors for managing quality in food processing firms

Agribusiness, 1994
Factors critical to successfully managing quality in the food processing industry are identified and include: the role of top management, the role of the quality department, employee relations, training, and process management. Little relationship was found between a factor's importance and firm performance with respect to that factor.
Gregory A. Baker, S. Andrew Starbird, Kenneth F. Harling   +2 more
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Developing Capabilities in Mozambique's Food Processing Sector - The Role of South African Food Processing Firms and Supermarket Chains

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Food processing is a high value-added sector which brings opportunities for long-term employment, skills development and technology transfer. This paper considers the potential for developing Mozambique’s food processing industry for the purpose of enhancing the country’s industrial landscape.
Maria Nkhonjera, Reena Das Nair
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Strategies to assure the absence of GMO in food products application process in a confectionery firm

Food Control, 2005
This article describes the strategies and the instruments applied in the development and implementation of a system aimed at assuring the production of food which is neither made of nor derived from genetically modified raw material in a confectionery firm.
SCIPIONI, ANTONIO, SACCAROLA G., ARENA F., SCHIAVON A.   +3 more
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