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Unsolicited Letters--the Policies and Practices of Food Companies
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Exploring innovation within low and medium technology SMEs: a qualitative study of Irish food companies
… that studies seven cases of LMT SMEs within the food sector in Ireland. Cases were developed through multiple interviews of management team members (including the general manager/owner) across the seven cases that agreed to participate. The research findings highlight that LMT SMEs innovate for …
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The effect of collectivism on family meal consumption behaviour and its implications on food companies in Sierra Leone
… and understand how to develop and respond to food products produced, consumed and sold in such markets. The aim of this study is to critically review literature on collectivism and undertake data collection to evaluate the factors stakeholders perceived as influencing families’ meal social …
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Getting People to Wish What They Need: How the United States Government Used Public Relations Strategies to Communicate Food Policy During World War II, 1941-1945
… healthy eating was distributed to media and food companies along with other messages about rationing restrictions and compliance. A vestige of that time that still exists today is the USDA's Recommended Dietary Allowances. This study examines cookbooks, newspaper and magazine articles as …
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Food, place, territorialization. From territory appreciation to successful businesses
… last decades, the awareness of the bond between food and its territory of origin has grown, and food perceived to be local and traditional increased in its attractiveness. Aware of this scenario, the purpose of this dissertation is to explore in depth the phenomenon of place-based food: firstly, …
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International business expansion through franchising: the case of fast-food industry
… about the nature of international fast-food franchising; 2) to identify the distinctive strategies employed by fast-food franchise firms in foreign markets and 3) to provide a set of guidelines for managers which will assist them in dealing with the challenges of initiating and expanding …
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Innovation and Strategy in the Food Industry: Trends, Challenges, and Implications for New Entrants
The food industry plays a vital role in human nutrition and health but also presents significant challenges for entrepreneurs due to its highly competitive nature. This thesis aims to provide valuable insights and strategies for new entrants in the food sector by conducting extensive market …
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BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
… (USDA), the substantial growth of the organic food market has garnered both enthusiasm and criticism. While large farm operations and food companies boast a significant reduction in the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers as a result of more crop land being converted to organic …
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BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
… (USDA), the substantial growth of the organic food market has garnered both enthusiasm and criticism. While large farm operations and food companies boast a significant reduction in the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers as a result of more crop land being converted to organic …
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Improving leadership capabilities for young employers at Kirin
… for a quantum leap in growth to become a leading food and health company in Asia and Oceania. Kirin aims to boost its sales to [Yen]3 trillion by 2015, compared to [Yen]1.67 trillion in 2006, and also aims to generate 30% of its sales and profits from overseas operations by 2015, compared to 18% …
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Producing soy to save the planet? : Challenging sustainable soy governance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado.
… NGOs are an increasingly common means for agri-food companies to enact sustainability objectives. Taking a comparative case study approach, this research examines two such initiatives from the soy industry, the Roundtable for Responsible Soy (RTRS) and the Soy Moratorium. Previous literature has …
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Understanding Organic Prices: An Analysis of Organic Price Risk and Premiums
Organic food products are produced without synthetic chemicals, including herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers. Food grown in organic systems that are certified organic by the United States Department of Agriculture command a price premium, whether it is direct to consumer via farmers markets or …
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Development of a quality assurance plan for a microbrewery
… success in the marketplace. Within Australia, companies normally approach QA by implementing formal systems which maintain the consistency of manufacturing processes, and hence, the quality of subsequent output. These systems have increasingly been based upon the international series of …
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Secondary Metabolite Production By An Endophytic Bacillus sp. from Platanus Occidentalis
… many industries including the pharmaceutical and food industries as producers of natural products. This potential was demonstrated by investigating the natural product production from a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens endophyte of Platanus occidentalis using a combination of MALDI-IMS, LC-MS, MS-MS, …
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Stability and Sensory Properties of Rice Bran Peptide Fraction Incorporated Orange Juice
<p>Functional foods offer consumers added benefits beyond the sole nutritional content of the food. Food companies are aggressively seeking new and cheaper sources of functional ingredients. Kannan et al. (2008) characterized anticancer peptides and peptide fraction from rice bran. However, …
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Value creation in the agri-food value chain
… complexity of modern consumer demand for food safety and quality. This demand has triggered changes throughout the food industry, and led to greater opportunities for product differentiation and the potential to add value to raw commodities (Goldsmith et al., 2002; Humphrey and Memedovic, …
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A Bifunctional Nanocomposites Based Electrochemical Biosensor for In-field Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria in Food
… coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Typhimurium, in foods. The possible presence of pathogenic bacteria in foods has always been a great threat to the wellbeing of people and the revenue of food companies. Therefore, the demand for rapid and sensitive methods to detect foodborne pathogens is growing. …
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Evaluating and informing reformulation strategies to achieve healthier Australian diets
… NCDs, including governmental regulation of the food environment to make it easier for individuals to make healthier choices. In 2020-21, the Australian federal government released reformulation targets for sodium, sugar and saturated fat across a range of foods. This body of work aimed to …
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An empirical study on the building blocks of resilience in British food supply chains
Food is, of course, essential to the continuation of human life, and today’s food supply networks or as they are also known “farm to fork” are becoming more diverse and dynamic. It is an undeniable fact that the changing climate has resulted in more extreme weather conditions than before. …
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Problematising Big Food’s appetite for policymaking the case of childhood obesity
Big Food companies, such as Coca-Cola, claim they ‘are helping to develop workable solutions to address obesity – by partnering with government, academia, health societies and other responsible members of civil society’ (Coca-Cola, 2011: 1). Big Food’s reinvention as public health promoter means …
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