Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV. From overseas pastures to british ports

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2 greed percentage basis which is presumably regulated, in each case, by the quantity which the company concerned is able to lispose of through its organisation. This, in theory at least, sets a limit to the efforts of each to increase its business at the expense of the others, for a company can never sell more than its freight allocation. The companies state that the careful arrangement of freight and its allocation are essential if gluts and shortages of chilled beef on the British market are to be avoided, though it should be noted that, even with this agree- ment, gluts and shortages not infrequently mark the trade through ships not keeping up to schedule, through bad weather, accident, or changes in demand. In spite of the agreement, considerable rivalry exists in practice between the two main sroups—the English and American companies—between which the trade is mainly divided.* The main difference between the Dominion and South American trades is, therefore, that the one must produce prac- tically all its goods for a market which is problematical, while ‘he other has at least a continuous minimum demand. Moreover, while, in the Dominion trade, companies vary widely in their Functions, trading outlook and organisation, in the South American trade the type of company is practically uniform, namely, a trading organisation which owns works in the Argentine or Uruguay and, directly or indirectly, distributive stalls and depots in this country. Superficially, the Dominion trade looks unorganised, uncertain and haphazard, while, by comparison, the South American trade appears to be a well-made road along which supplies travel in orderly procession until they reach the retail distributor or, in the case of the enterprises associated with the Union Cold Storage Company, the consumer’s table. This orderliness does not, however, always obtain, for the prevision of the companies is limited by uncertainties. A delay of from, say, Thursday to Monday, through bad weather, or through breakdown at sea, may cause a shortage in one week and a surplus in the next. A heat-wave, or heavy arrivals of mutton, lamb or pork from other sources, may so curtail the demand for beef as to produce a surplus even though only normal quantities are being offered. Again, it is necessary to maintain works in continuous operation and to arrange that steamers, once chartered, are loaded to full capacity, or the meat will be marketed at a high cost. Unlike the Dominion trade, which pays freight only on actual meat shipped, the South American trade pays freight on the basis of shipping space chartered, so that unit-carrying charges for the trader are lowest when ships are filled to capacity. It frequently happens, therefore, that in order to keep down on-costs, meat is shipped in heavy quantities to a market which is known to be depressed. The problem which may, at times, confront the sompanies is to decide whether the loss incurred in selling large ‘ Ranart of Roval Commission on Food Prices.” Cmd. 2390. 1925. YERDIA

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