18 research outputs found
WHICH RETAIL FOOD SERVICES ARE CONSUMERS WILLING TO DO WITHOUT
Consumer/Household Economics,
SELECTED ISSUES AND FEATURES OF UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
Growth and Concentration through Merger in the Flour Milling Industry
The purpose of this study is to investigate the recent merger movement in the flour milling industry and to determine its role in the growth of the firms involved.Although earlier studies have considered the flour milling industry to be one of relatively low concentration, there is reason to believe that the industry’s concentration has undergone marked changes since the end of World War II. Moreover, the role that post-war mergers may have played in changing the industry’s concentration levels is unknown.
The merger data for this study are from governmental and industrial sources.A report prepared by the Federal Trade Commission on mergers by the 500 largest industrial firms and 50 largest merchandising firms included eight of the 20 largest flour milling firms. These data were supplemented by a review of trade journals from 1947 to 1963 to obtain relatively complete merger information for the milling industry.
Several conclusions came out of this study, one of them was that the change in number of mills and the concentration of milling capacity cannot help but change the competitive nature of the industry and that the existing level of concentration among a few suggests that these firms can engage in price practices not wholly in the public interest.
Advisor: Richard G. Wals
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Directory of the 200 Largest U. S. Food and Tobacco Processing Firms, 1975
Excerpts: The primary objective of this directory is to provide a convenient reference source that details the size and diversity of the 200 largest U.S. manufacturers of food and tobacco products. The operations of many of the companies listed below are so varied and complex, and information on them is so scattered, that neither the average citizen nor the specialized researcher can adequately comprehend the far-reaching role that these firms play in our everyday lives. The food and tobacco processing industries comprise a very substantial portion of the U.S. economy. In 1975 these industries shipped 214 billion spent by U.S. consumers on food, beverages, and tobacco; moreover, food expenditures amounted to 22.2 percent of all personal consumption in 1975. The top 200 food processing firms accounted for a major portion of all domestic production and together hold most of the leading positions in most of the processed food industries. The main body of the directory is divided into three sections: The first section lists the top 200 firms alphabetically. Next to each firm's name are several estimates of company sales, sales ratios, expenditure ratios, profitability, and other information referring to the company as a whole. The second section ranks all 6,600 products of the top 200 food firms by industry categories corresponding to the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System used by the Census Bureau and other U.S. Government agencies. The SIC system categorizes products together that are similar in their use of constituent materials and methods of production. The third main section of the directory lists the products alphabetically, divided into two parts—food and tobacco products first, non-food products second. Next to each product is the name of the company that markets the product