"Health-enhancing" products in the Italian food industry: Multinationals and SMEs competing on yogurt

AgBioForum

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Boesso, Giacomo ^a   St Davcik, Nebojsa ^a   Favotto, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health enhancing foods; Italy; Multinational enterprises; New product development strategies; Small and medium enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649142063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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