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 V. The trade in Great Britain

Collection:: Economics Books

who walk its avenues rather than to the stallholders, as such, ‘hat it owes its prestige throughout the meat-producing regions of the world. The head offices of the great meat firms and of the agents, and jobbers, are close to Smithfield which is the common meeting place for all concerned in the trade. The Market, itself, closes at one o’clock, when the stallholders who have been at work since the early hours of the morning go home. The extra-market merchants return, however, to their offices near at hand, where their work is continued by telephone and sable, their arena being the whole international field in which meat is bought and sold. Diagram B, on the opposite page, illustrates the general run of transactions in the trade, and shows the omnipresence of the sxtra-market jobber. It will be noted that so far as the extra- market trade is concerned, there is cross-selling between the importers and the jobbers; moreover, particularly when the market is rising, goods may pass into the possession of an importer or jobber more than once, and may pass through the hands of several jobbers before reaching the retail butcher, ria a market stall. In fact, it is important to realise that the merchants engaged in the extra-market trade may all, at times, job to a varying extent, and the four functions of importer, jobber, wholesaler and retailer may even be performed by one and the same firm, as in the case of big firms which own a group of retail shops and buy c.i.f. and ex-store in large quantities for re-sale to jobbers and wholesalers. Moreover, an extra-market jobber may also have one or several stalls, that is to say, his main function may be that of stallholding wholesaler, but, in addition, he may buy and sell from and to importers and other jobbers. Turning now to the influence of Smithfield on the imported- meat trade of the country generally, it may be observed that she gradual concentration of control in London is leading inevitably to considerable changes in provincial organisation. Instead of developing semi-autonomous branches, the leading rms are tending to have merely local offices, the managers of xhich are under the direct control of the general management in London, the branch accounts being based on London books. This is inevitably attracting to the centre the ambitious men in the trade, who desire to share in the direction of policy— “here being little scope away from the immediate environs of Smithfield. It has the effect, too, of attracting supplies; it is sustomary for provincial port-authorities, in their advertisements, to show the large populations which their ports immediately serve: their aim is to divert supplies from the port of London, since a portion would, in any event, be railed into their areas after being landed. Yet the proportion shipped to London seems to grow, and one of the reasons would appear to be that meat companies, operating from London, naturally prefer to Lave as large a proportion of their geods as possible at the point

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