Seafood Products Enhancement: The Case of Artisanal Fishing in France

Fishermen, who initially harvest the resource, usually content themselves with landing and selling the raw material. It is the food processing industry, wholesalers, distributors and retailers that create added value from the fish by transforming it or/and differentiating different types or quality grades. Focussing upon Brittany, Normandy and the Channel coasts of Northern France, we observed that actors of the channel of market could also play their part in adding value to seafood products. A pilot study was made among 18 fishermen, 18 wholesale firms, 11 seafood products department supervisors in supermarkets and hypermarkets and 37 fishmongers at the beginning of 1999. These 84 market studies focussed on the seven methods used to add value: modification of fishing techniques; introduction of quality improvements; differentiation between fish, shellfish and crustaceans; policies of certification or collective brands; economic integration in the sector; creation of value added products; information and promotion to consumers. After recalling the various reasons for adding value to seafood products, the results of our market study of 84 professionals are presented in this paper

Characterization of dedifferentiating human mature adipocytes from the 6 visceral and subcutaneous fat compartments : fibroblast-activation protein 7 alpha and Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 as major components of matrix remodeling

Mature adipocytes can reverse their phenotype to become fibroblast-like cells. This is achieved by ceiling culture and the resulting cells, called dedifferentiated fat (DFAT) cells, are multipotent. Beyond the potential value of these cells for regenerative medicine, the dedifferentiation process itself raises many questions about cellular plasticity and the pathways implicated in cell behavior. This work has been performed with the objective of obtaining new information on adipocyte dedifferentiation, especially pertaining to new targets that may be involved in cellular fate changes. To do so, omental and subcutaneous mature adipocytes sampled from severely obese subjects have been dedifferentiated by ceiling culture. An experimental design with various time points along the dedifferentiation process has been utilized to better understand this process. Cell size, gene and protein expression as well as cytokine secretion were investigated. Il-6, IL-8, SerpinE1 and VEGF secretion were increased during dedifferentiation, whereas MIF-1 secretion was transiently increased. A marked decrease in expression of mature adipocyte transcripts (PPARγ2, C/EBPα, LPL and Adiponectin) was detected early in the process. In addition, some matrix remodeling transcripts (FAP, DPP4, MMP1 and TGFβ1) were rapidly and strongly up-regulated. FAP and DPP4 proteins were simultaneously induced in dedifferentiating mature adipocytes supporting a potential role for these enzymes in adipose tissue remodeling and cell plasticity

BIBLIOGRAPHIE: La nouvelle distribution : Marketing, management, développement : Des modèles à réinventer

International audienc

Assortiment : comment passer d'une logique nationale à une offre locale ?

Les problématiques liées aux assortiments se veulent nombreuses et complexes. Nous allons centrer l'analyse sur une question singulière et encore peu traitée dans la littérature: comment les enseignes passent-elles d'une démarche nationale à une offre locale, contextualisée ? Nous commencerons tout d'abord par quelques rappels sur la démarche de construction des assortiments. Puis, après avoir décrit comment les grands distributeurs passent d'un marketing national à une déclinaison locale des assortiments, nous aborderons une étude de cas réelle, celle des magasins Champio

Effet de l'hyperchoix sur le consommateur et effet modérateur de la marque: une application au cas de l'horlogerie bijouterie

International audienc

Management de la distribution

Cet ouvrage offre une synthèse sur le management de la distribution et analyse à la fois les différentes formes de canaux, les stratégies spécifiques des entreprises de distribution et les problématiques propres au management de ce secteur très important de l'économi

Promotion Assortment : Introducing Datamining to Avoid Redundancy Effects on Grocery Promotions

International audienc