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[Report] Food Deserts in British Cities, 2004: final report on ESRC award
No full textIn the late 1990s, deprived areas of British cities with poor access to healthy food at reasonable prices became known as ‘food deserts’, and policies were recommended to tackle their problems. Yet until this study by the Universities of Southampton, Leeds and Cardiff, there was almost no research to test some of the crucial links assumed to exist between food retail access, compromised diets, and poor health. Work included a major before-and-after investigation into the impact on the eating habits of low-income families in the Seacroft area of East Leeds - one of the top five per cent most deprived places in England - after a large, new Tesco store opened on their doorste
Transforming the corporate landscape of US food retailing: Market power, financial re-engineering and regulation
No full textA dramatic wave of consolidation swept through the US food retail industry during the late 1990s, transforming its corporate geography. This paper considers the causes of that consolidation wave, placing emphasis on the regulatory history of the industry, the holding back of consolidation by financial re-engineering during the 1980s, and the subsequent release, following a critical period of deleveraging during the early 1990s, of the scale-related pricing power/operating margin advantages of the major multiregional operators. It also considers the response of the leading firms in the industry to the rapid incursion of an unusually powerful new market entrant – Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer – and assesses the link between Wal-Mart’s entry into the industry and the consolidation wave. Finally, the paper debates the extent to which a shift in regulatory policy and practice by the Federal Trade Commission at the very end of the decade may have altered the pattern and scale of consolidation in the industry, and the consequences of regulatory tightening for the future landscape of US food retai
Innovation in retail internationalisation: Tesco in the USA
No full textThis paper examines the market entry of the UK’s largest retailer (Tesco) into the USA. Tesco’s launch of a new brand – Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets – in virgin territory is a bold move, notwithstanding the firm’s considerable success with its overseas investment strategy (which within ten years has resulted in more than 50% of the firm’s operating space being outside its ‘home’ market). The paper contextualises the study by taking a historical view of innovation in the retail industry, which reveals that generally - and certainly for the most part of the twentieth century – innovations have dominantly flowed from the US to the UK. The paper suggests that Tesco’s US experiment is unusual both in terms of the innovatory aspects of its market entry and the reversal in that conventional direction of knowledge transfer. The Fresh & Easy story is then examined in terms of ten ‘dimensions of innovation’ involved in the market entry. The paper concludes by drawing out from these ‘dimensions of innovation’ a number of important issues for management scholarship raised by the study, stressing the need to incorporate insights from a wider social science literature<br/
The stresses of retail internationalization: lessons from Royal Ahold's experience in Latin America
No full textWritten prior to the financial crisis of the world’s third largest retailer following its announcement of accounting irregularities on February 24 2003, this paper uses a case study of Ahold’s struggles to manage significant investment in the unpredictable business environments of Latin America to focus attention on the stresses internationalization poses for the retail firm. It offers a picture of retail multinationals facing distinctive organizational challenges as they seek to transpose internal and inter-firm practices to markedly different institutional environments, and of a highly contested retail internationalization process – not least by the suppliers of finance. It concludes by drawing out five lessons for retail internationalization theory from Ahold’s experiences. A postscript then summarizes the events following Ahold’s revelation of significant accounting irregularities through to the announcement of its decision on 3 April 2003 to withdraw from South America. That postscript assesses what further insights the corporate scandal has revealed about Ahold’s management of its significant investment in the region
Relocalising Food Shopping: Consumer responses to supply chain transformation in the UK convenience store sector
No full textThe globalization of trade in retail services - report commissioned by OECD trade policy linkages and services division for the OECD experts meeting on distribution services
No full textAims and Background: In this retail sector study commissioned by OECD to inform the expert meeting on distribution services to be held on November 17 2010, the aims are to:* explain how and why the retail sector has internationalised its operations over the past two decades and the characteristics of that process;* highlight current and potential future trends in the internationalisation of the sector;* consider how trade, investment and regulatory policy have shaped and continue to shape the international activities of retailers;* assess the importance of e-commerce in international retailing and any potential restrictions on its development;* assess policy areas and measures which might be included in the retail part of a services trade restrictiveness index (STRI)
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