Fruit and Vegetable Quality

attributes as a source of differentiation and identity. Flexibility in re- sponding to market signals and the anticipation of ne ...

Lai, Y., Florkowski, W. J., Huang, C. L., Brückner, B., and Schonhof, I. 1997. Con- sumer Willingness to Pay for Improved Attrib ...

CHAPTER 13 Integrated Quality Management Applied to the Processed-Vegetables Industry JACQUES VIAENE XAVIER GELLYNCK WIM VERBEKE ...

State of the Art 247 methodology, the results of the project are presented. Finally, some con- clusions and needs for future res ...

248 INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT stantial savings in costs. The concept of SCM is largely based on the Transaction Cost Economi ...

State of the Art 249 ECR is often considered as a combination of demand-side manage- ment, also called category management, and ...

isfaction. While there are many definitions of quality, all share the com- mon assumption that quality is determined by the cust ...

competitive advantage derives from the value a company offers to its buyers, on the one hand (marketing management), and from th ...

pects are also related to regulations with respect to product standards, environmental controls, pesticides and additives usage, ...

hypotheses and key attention topics for quantitative conclusive research were drawn. Second, quantitative primary data were gath ...

254 INTEGRATED QUALITY MANAGEMENT for an alternative in frozen vegetables, canned vegetables or vegetables in glass. Focusing on ...

255 Neither Agree Statements Agree nor Disagree Disagree Total A meal is not complete without vegetables. 85.4 5.0 9.6 100 Br ...

of fresh vegetables also attached higher importance to seeing the veg- etables as a guide to judging their quality. Perception o ...

The consumer of frozen vegetables is defined as someone who wants to serve fresh vegetables but looks for the ideal compromise, ...

258 Fresh Frozen Canned Glass Core Product Has a good taste 29.1 11.1 6.5 7.2 Contains a lot of minerals and vitamins 20.0 23.3 ...

259 Fresh Frozen Canned Glass Is good for the environment 6.0 4.2 0.6 4.0 Provides variety 4.4 33.0 49.1 24.7 Situation Factor F ...

bles are served in meals prepared for the whole family and most appre- ciated by the real family mother and connoisseurs. No sta ...

respectively, means that the ideal production process “must” take care of specific practices and “avoid” others. The attributes ...

or avoiding the use of machinery cannot be realized in practice. A great majority of the indicated issues for ideal vegetable pr ...

guarantee concept. These elements offer a tremendous opportunity for chains that manage first to respond to these consumer preoc ...