The Euro Retailer Produce Working Group (EUREP) is a European based trade organization for retailers.

Some products enter the market through wholesalers who in turn distribute the products to a variety of retailers, while in other cases the producer sells directly to the retailer.

Producers are also engaging in direct sales to consumers through on line retailing, bypassing retailers.

Three additional factors create difficulties for producers of final products in the origin countries regarding market entry at the retail level.

(v) Education and training for retail staff in respect of energy efficient products

Growing use by retailers of own brands and discount retailing have also been driving prices down significantly.

Its membership consists of growers, product marketing organizations and growers' cooperatives, food manufacturers and retailers.

The liberalization of the distribution sector in China has implied benefits for example, the development of different distribution formats, including specialty stores, the enhancement of local marketing and managerial capacity, and the possibility for domestic manufacturers to enter the international supply chain of foreign retailers (95 per cent of the products distributed by foreign retailers in China are locally sourced and foreign retailers export Chinese products abroad).

In particular, online retail sales of physical goods amounted to approximately RMB5.08 trillion, while online retail sales of services amounted to nearly RMB1.49 trillion.

A small market already exists for tropical jams, syrups and other retail tropical fruit products.

According to relevant regulations of the Indian government, establishing retail stores in India would entail procuring 30 of a product s parts and components in India.

In view of the excessive power of retailers, the investments of product suppliers could be undermined, particularly if the latter do not have any alternative avenues for the distribution of their products.

Further, the Commission's investigation established that Panamco Tica was lending refrigerators to retailers and attaching exclusivity clauses to the contracts, which required retailers to use the refrigerator for Coca Cola products exclusively.

The Commission was of the view that as Coca Cola products were among the markets leaders, and given the importance of selling a cold product to the consumer, this practice had a direct effect on small retailers, which had no space to install a second refrigerator.

Retailers have integrated backwards into wholesale operations, and producers have integrated forward, performing wholesale functions by distributing their products directly to retailers.

More sophisticated retailers, especially in Europe, are increasingly demanding quality assurance all the way back to the producer and even to the feed supplier to ensure the consumer receives healthy products.

Due to the recent restructuring of retail activities, supermarkets saw their share rise from 20 per cent of total national food retailing in 1990 to 50 60 per cent of total turnover in 2002.

These are 10 companies control much of what's in our grocery stores, much of what people eat. And that's really, really a problem.

The growth in concentration in retailing has also given rise to a number of concerns about anti competitive behaviour of major retailers vis à vis other competitors, and abuses of buyers' power with respect to suppliers of products and consumers.

In the food retail business, there has been an impressive expansion of supermarket chains.

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The increased buying power of retailers has emerged through their role in negotiating prices and introducing own brand products.

In most countries, the retail sector has typically developed in three stages first, local or regional players dominate, before a smaller number of national companies takes over, with e tailers ultimately challenging traditional businesses. But China lacks national leaders, with the top five Chinese retailers in different product categories commanding less than 20 of the market, compared to up to 60 in the US.

Like I said, he was sort of a salesman of some kind.

Studies have shown a strong impact of large retailers in terms of appropriating value, especially at the expense of small agricultural producers.

If any of the profit from retail sale returns to drug trafficking organizations, perhaps from connected cells of retail distributors, the profitability of international drug trafficking will be greater.

(b) Drive sales of UNICEF cards and gifts with a special focus on broadening their distribution through retailers and the Internet

Not all countries have legislation prohibiting below cost selling, and large retailers can sustain controlled losses in certain product baskets in order to increase their market share.

While the first operates fixed point of sale locations, non store retailers or retailers away from a fixed location reach customers and market merchandise with methods such as broadcasting infomercials , paper and electronic catalogues, door to door solicitation and selling from portable stalls.

This was evidence of resale price maintenance, which affects intrabrand competition and limits the right of the retailer to apply his own sale prices.

The retail sector includes two main types of retailers store and non store retailers.

Further, studies suggest that owing to concentration in the structure of international commodity markets, commodity producers are less likely to benefit from increases in international commodity prices at the wholesale and retail levels.

And just the sales of the products this is a non profit the sales of these products is now .6 of the GDP of Kenya.

Only by combining online and offline operations will new retail come into being.

It is primarily a company that manufactures, bottles and resells the finished product to wholesalers and retailers in Costa Rica.

Store retail services can be classified according to size, business format, and product mix or specialization.

By contrast, Alibaba (which owns marketplaces such as Taobao) and 360buy.com (which focuses on electronics) rank among China s top ten retailers, and already provide national coverage through the reach of express delivery companies. As a result, China s retail sector seems more likely to follow a two stage development path, with e tailers emerging as the major national players.

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So we've started roundtables where we bring together the entire value chain, from producers all the way to the retailers and brands.

The top 100 retailers (see table 3) account for 25 per cent of worldwide retailing sales.

The continuing trend of a steady growth in the country's economy is having a positive effect on foreign and domestic trade indicators. Retail sales grew by 10 in 2003.

Notably, retail services would in part cover wholesale and commission agents' services under CPC 6111 and 6113.

The problem is aggravated by the fact that EurepGAP requirements do not only apply to exported produce, but also impact locally sourced products acquired by EUREP retailers for the domestic market in developing countries.

Small scale producers may also sell in markets.

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