with changes in living standards and food consumption pattern, consumers demand quality meat with more emphasis on tenderness which is often not obtained from the aged and spent animals. As a consequence, majority of the meat is losing its popularity and demand. Some quantity of meat produced is used for the development of various comminuted meat products. A practical method for improving tende...

In the literature of inventory after the development of classical economic order quantity (EOQ) model researchers extensively studied several aspects of inventory modeling by assuming constant demand rate. But in a real market demand of a product is always dynamic state due to the variability of time, price or even of the instantaneous level of inventory displayed in retail shop. This impressed...

This paper proposes a new model for portfolio sensitivity analysis. The model is suitable for decision support in financial institutions, specifically for portfolio planning and portfolio management. The basic advantage of the model is the ability to create simulations for credit risk predictions in cases when we virtually change portfolio structure and/or macroeconomic factors. The model takes...

This paper analyzes the role of brand name recognition and product quality on the competition between national brands and private labels in the retail food industry. Theoretical and empirical evidence is provided to show that both marketing tools play a significant role, but in quite different ways. Quality improvements by one firm will intensify the competition; one firm will gain at the expen...

price transmission is one of the most important factors that affects the producers, consumers and marketing agents’ welfare. market structure affects price transmission. asymmetric price transmission affects the marketing margin, increases marketing agents’ profit and decreases producers and consumers’ welfare. in recent years high prices of beef has caused consumers’ dissatisfaction however, p...

Although efforts are underway to examine marketing that targets the youth and families in the retail food store environment, few studies have specifically focused on stores that families identify as their primary sites for food shopping. Between November 2011 and April 2012, we examined the frequency and types of marketing techniques of 114 packaged and nonpackaged items in 24 food stores that ...

Stakeholders operating within the yam export market lack shopper insights to formulate effective marketing and supply chain management strategies. This paper aims to show how supermarket loyalty card data on yam shoppers in the UK can be analysed to objectively assess marketing performance and prospects through year-on-year comparison of key marketing measures and regression. The results demons...

In this paper, we propose a structural model of channel choice and product purchases, in which consumers base their channel choice decision on both the utility inherent in visiting a channel and the expected utility from purchasing products upon visiting. Specifically, we allow channels to have different abilities to resolve consumer uncertainty about product fit that varies by product category...

The purpose of the study is to investigate influence customer relationship management on eco-friendly marketing, corporate sustainability, marketing and sustainability through marketing. This research uses purposive sampling method in sample selection. used retail companies Makassar City, South Sulawesi. Total Sample 84 respondents. data collection survey with questionnaire. analysis techniques...

Because of today's strong competition, most manufacturing organizations continually try to increase their profits and reduce their costs. Accurate sales forecasting is certainly an inexpensive way to meet these goals because it leads to improved customer service, reduced lost sales and product returns, and more efficient production planning (Doganis et al., 2006). Forecasting future demand is c...