Europe
Buyer Power in Food Retailing: The European Experience
Supermarket Practices: The need for EU wide action
Les Pratiques des Grandes Surfaces
Las Prácticas De Los Supermercados: La necesidad de acción a nivel de la UE
Buyer Power and its Impact on Competition in the Food Retail Distribution Sector of the European Union, May 1999.
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How are Farmers Faring in the Changing Balance of Power Along the Food Chain?
EU Competition Rules and future developments from the perspective of farmers and small suppliers, April 2005
A report commissioned by the UK Food Group to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law In 2004, which focuses on relevant EU competition policy and includes proposals that could be of assistance to organisations calling for legislation to curb the power of supermarkets.
Stakeholder Accountability in the UK Supermarket Sector, November 2004
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1870.html
What’s Wrong with Supermarkets?
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1687.html
High Street Britain: 2015
House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group,
January 2006
The report, analyses evidence collected during the group's inquiry into the prospects of the small retail sector, reflected the belief that due to the unbalanced trading environment many small shops will have ceased trading by 2015, with people, as consumers and members of communities, standing to be severely disadvantaged.
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Food Inc. Corporate concentration from farm to consumer
Over half of the population in the developing world is rural
and 2.5 billion people worldwide depend on agriculture for
their livelihoods. Although the food chain as a whole is very
profitable, the terms of trade for primary producers have
declined, the gap between producer prices and retail prices
has grown, and family-scale farmers are finding themselves
excluded from higher value markets and facing
livelihood crisis.
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Achieving Fairness in Trading
This paper reviews the opportunities and risks in incorporating fairness into mainstream trading between Supermarkets and their Agrifood Supply Chain. UKFG-Briefing-Fairness-in-Trade, September 2005
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How Will the Royal Ahold Purchase of Pathmark Supermarkets Affect Prices?, August 1999
An easy to understand overview of how antitrust authorities evaluate the impact of mergers and acquisitions on market structure and consumers, using an analysis of Royal Ahold's purchase of Pathmark supermarkets as an illustration.
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Buyer Power in Food Retailing – the European Perspective, Paul Dobson
In recent years, there has been significant consolidation and concentration in food retail distribution in the European Union. The implications of this from the social welfare viewpoint are examined.
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The Predatory Impacts of the Ahold / Pathmark offer to Buy the Big V Shop Rite Supermarket Chain, May 2003
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Supermarket Profiles
Asda Wal-Mart: The Alternative Report, September 2005
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ASDA/Wal-Mart: a corporate profile
Corporate Watch, November 2004
A profile of Asda and owners Wal-Mart, the largest company and arguably 'the most ruthless employer' in the world.
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Everyday low prices: The hidden price we all pay for Wal-Mart
Committee on education and the workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, February 2004
This report looks at the causes of Wal-Mart's success in its ability to charge low prices in mega-stores, bringing some community benefits, but also at a steep price for America workers, US labour laws and community living.
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Corporate Profile: J Sainsbury PLC, July 2003
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International supply chains
Rotten Fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price, April 2005
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1864.html
Horticulture Commodity Chains: The Impact of the UK Market on the African Fresh Vegetable Industry, December 1999
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1779.html
The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio Berdegue, American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, 85 (5), December 2003
This report looks at the rise of supermarkets in these regions in the past decade, where they are now no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital cities. This has transformed agri-food markets, at different rates and depths across regions and countries. Many of those transformations present great challenges - even exclusion - for small
farms, processing and distribution firms, as well as benefits.
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US
An Antitrust Economic Analysis of Stop & Shop's Proposed Acquisition of the Big V Shop Rite Supermarket Chain, February 2002
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1595.html
U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Marketing: Emerging Trade Practices, Trends, and Issues, January 2001
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1599.html
Consolidation in Food Retailing and Dairy: Implications for Farmers and Consumers in a Global Food System, January 2001
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1678.html
Grocery Retailers Demonstrate Urge to Merge, May 2000
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1821.html
Food Retailing: The Two Faces of Supermarket Mergers, August 1999
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1602.html
An Antitrust Economic Analysis of the Proposed Acquisition of Supermarkets General Holdings Corporation by Ahold Acquisitions Inc., April 1999
http://www.agribusinessaccountability.org/bin/view.fpl/1198/cms_category/1594.html
