British Food Journal: Volume 105 Issue 9

Food retailers and financial services in the UK: a co‐opetitive perspective

Elisa Martinelli, Leigh Sparks

The financial services sector operates in a turbulent environment. The availability of financial services for customers has grown considerably, with providers encompassing…

Stock control and supplier relationships at the local pub in a market town: A case study investigation into effective demand management

Neil S. Towers, John Pratten

There are about 60,000 public houses in the UK that operate in a diverse retail sector from the wholly independent small business to the corporate brewery managed public house…

A case study exploring the packaging design management process within a UK food retailer

Delia Vazquez, Margaret Bruce, Rachel Studd

Food retailers invest heavily in design expertise to create exciting packaging to entice customers to buy premium food products, and to strengthen their competitive edge. The…

Pills by post? German retail pharmacies and the Internet

Ruth A. Schmidt, Elke A. Pioch

The advent of Internet trading in medicines, as epitomized by the recently attempted market entry of the Dutch Internet pharmacy DocMorris into the tightly regulated German retail…

UK vineyards sector case study: Analysis of retail activities using exemplar strategic marketing tools

Oliver Richardson, Charles Dennis

There has been considerable research into wine marketing worldwide, but little has been published concerning the marketing of UK wines. This paper outlines the background to the…

Food retail positioning strategy: a means‐end chain analysis

Derek Devlin, Grete Birtwistle, Norma Macedo

This research conducts a means‐end chain analysis of the food sector and explores the extent to which the findings made can be used to inform the retail positioning strategy of…

Guest editorial

Andrew J. Newman