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The Food and Beverage Industry

In: The Business of Sustainability

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  • Aileen Ionescu-Somers

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This chapter examines managers’ perceptions of, attitudes towards and approaches to the business case for sustainability in the food and beverage industry,1 focusing mainly on the economic relevance of sustainability issues, stakeholders, value drivers and internal barriers. Our findings have been obtained from the following sources: Forty interviews with a broad range of senior managers at ten leading multinational food and beverage companies (Cadbury Schweppes, Chiquita, Danisco, Danone, Diageo, Kraft, Nestlé, Nutreco, Procter & Gamble and Unilever). Ten interviews with stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and industry associations. A questionnaire distributed to 17 sustainability or corporate responsibility officers (mostly senior managers based in Northern Europe). A questionnaire distributed to 115 other business managers in the sector (again mostly based in Northern Europe and 50 per cent of whom were either board members or senior managers).

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  • Aileen Ionescu-Somers, 2004. "The Food and Beverage Industry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ulrich Steger (ed.), The Business of Sustainability, chapter 9, pages 178-198, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52447-7_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230524477_9
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    Cited by:

    1. Parisa Salimzadeh & Jerry Courvisanos, 2015. "A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Sustainable Development in Regional SMEs," Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 17(04), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Ilaria Mancuso & Angelo Natalicchio & Umberto Panniello & Paolo Roma, 2021. "Understanding the Purchasing Behavior of Consumers in Response to Sustainable Marketing Practices: An Empirical Analysis in the Food Domain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-22, May.
    3. Daniel N. Warshawsky, 2019. "The Challenge of Food Waste Governance in Cities: Case Study of Consumer Perspectives in Los Angeles," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-22, February.

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