Buyer Power and Competition in European Food Retailing; Author: Clarke, Roger (Professor of Economics, Cardiff University); Author: Davies, Stephen (Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia); Author: Dobson, Paul (Professor of Retail Strategy and Industrial Organization, Loughborough University); Author: Waterson, Michael (Professor of Economics, Warwick University); Hardback; Book

Author: Clarke, Roger (Professor of Economics, Cardiff University); Author: Davies, Stephen (Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia); Author: Dobson, Paul (Professor of Retail Strategy and Industrial Organization, Loughborough University); Author: Waterson, Michael (Professor of Economics, Warwick University)
Hardback; Book; Figures, Tables, Index
224 pages
Published: June 2002
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1840646853

This text examines the effects of contemporary growth in concentration in the European food retailing sector. In particular it develops a number of buyer power propositions and builds on previous work, to consider how the growth of large supermarket chains affects competition in food retailing.