The Feasibility of Electronic Marketing for the Wholesale Meat Trade (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Gerald Engelman
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428459727
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Excerpt from The Feasibility of Electronic Marketing for the Wholesale Meat Trade In 1978, 38 billion pounds of meat were produced in the United States from livestock slaughter. Included in this were 24 billion pounds of beef, billion pounds of pork, 600 million pounds of veal, and 300 million pounds of lamb and mutton. At pounds per truckload (a little more than an average load) this would be equivalent to truckloads a year, or truck loads a day. The market for meat is a national market. Almost three-fourths of the meat comes from meat packers in the Midwest and Great Plains States. From these areas surplus supplies move to Eastern and Southern States and to States on the Western Slope. Problems in wholesale pricing have become matters of continuing concern and recurring contention as formula pricing has grown at the expense of negoti ated transaction prices. In formula selling, the transaction price is based on a market quotation for a date in the future, usually on the day of shipment or the day before. This erodes the base for reporting negotiated transaction prices. Information tends to become so scattered, so fragmented, and so limited that it is difficult to say what happened in the market on a given day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.