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The Marketing Strategies of Livestock Enterprises in Objective One Regions: A Comparative Study Between Greece and United Kingdom

Published in 2007 by Lambros Tsourgiannis
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Abstract

This research aims to identify the marketing decisions made by agricultural producers in two E.U. Objective 1 regions and to provide insights into the reasons that such decisions are made, with a particular focus on meat and milk products. Two farm business surveys; one in the involving sheep and goat farmers in the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace ( EMTh) in Greece and one in the sheep and dairy cow farmers in Cornwall, U.K. were undertaken in order to identify their marketing behaviour. This study used robust predictive models incorporating bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques in order to develop marketing typologies regarding the livestock and milk marketing strategies that the sheep and goat farmers follow in EMTh and which the sheep and dairy cow farmers adopt in Cornwall. Results show that the sheep and goat farmers in EMTh follow three different livestock marketing strategies: (a) cost-focus strategy, (b) production-orientation strategy and (c) return-focus strategy: and three different milk marketing strategies: (a) differentiation strategy, (b) production orientation strategy and (c) return focus strategy. Sheep farmers in Cornwall adopt the following two marketing strategies: (a) differentiation strategy and (b) production-orientation strategy; while the dairy cow Cornish farmers adopt the following three marketing strategies: (a) opportunistic strategy, (b) return focus strategy and (c) market orientation strategy. This study determined the factors and the characteristics that influence the farmers to adopt a particular marketing strategy. Moreover, marketing channel selection is related to distribution channel utilisation. It also identified the factors included sale price, speed of payment, volume of livestock and milk production and loyalty that affect the farmers in EMTh to choose a particular marketing channel. Farmers in Cornwall are also influenced in their marketing channel selection by welfare issues, marketing cost and convenience. Finally, implications of these findings for agencies and organisations seeking to increase the regional GDP derived from the agrifood sector in these regions were identified.