Premium private labels, supply contracts, market segmentation, and spot prices

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Bazoche, Pascale ^a   Giraud Héraud, Eric ^a   Soler, Louis Georges ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Captive supplies; Private labels; Retailing; Spot prices; Supply contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444393048     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1087     Document Type: Article

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