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| Meixner, Oliver; Haas, Rainer; Pochtrager, Siegfried. |
| Meat is one the most important products concerning sales in the food retail sector in industrialised countries. Confirming Eurostat (2007), almost 45% of the agricultural output in the EU 15 comes from meat. However, production figures of some meat products, especially beef, declined dramatically during the last ten years (minus 690 000 tons between 1995 and 2005 within the EU 15). 1 Due to several major food scandals in the meat sector (BSE, bird flu, etc.) consumers are actually quite suspicious towards meat quality and production conditions. Some try to change their eating behaviour (less meat), others change from one product category to another (from beef to chicken). As a result, the demand for specific meat products declined during the last decade... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6598 |
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| Meixner, Oliver; Pochtrager, Siegfried; Haas, Rainer. |
| Numerous companies in the Austrian food industry have already been certified in accordance with the ISO 9000 standards. However, the introduction of a quality management system in a company alone does not guarantee continuous improvement as required by the standard ÖNORM ISO 9001:2000. In order to be successful when introducing and maintaining a quality management system in a company, a number of important factors must be considered. These success factors are derived from the „European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Model for Business Excellence“. The purpose of the EFQM Model is to support the internal assessment of the quality management within a company, and it can be regarded as a motor for internal improvement. In particular, for companies... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Quality management; Success factors; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Model evaluation; Food industry; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97434 |
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