Market Concentration and Profitability of the Grocery Retailers in Central Europe

Špička, Jindřich

doi:10.18267/j.cebr.155

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“…This might be explained by the extent of the retailers' bargaining power towards their suppliers in the EU [56]. In the Czech Republic, the food market is considered highly competitive, and so the retailers have become more concentrated and have significantly developed their own brands (private labels) [57]. In particular, regional (micro-, small, and medium) businesses face various difficulties placing their certified products on the Czech market, especially in the traditional marketing channels [45].…”

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Food Labels (Quality, Origin, and Sustainability): The Experience of Czech Producers

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Food labels allow producers to promote the unique selling points of their products and help consumers buy products with value-adding qualities. The aim of the present article is hence to explore Czech food producers’ expectations and experience with selected food labels. The selection was narrowed down to enterprises that had succeeded in the certification processes within the food labeling systems of European quality and origin labels (protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional specialty guaranteed (TSG)), as well as schemes that fall under the remit of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, such as Klasa (Česká potravina/Czech food, Regionální potravina/regional food, and BIO). The research was made using an online questionnaire in January–February 2018, and was focused on determining possible discrepancies in expectations that the companies had before applying for quality/origin labels and their actual experience with the labelling systems, the benefits they had gained, and their overall experience with the labels. To compare the respondents’ expectations and their actual experience, both the non-parametric Wilcoxon test and t-test were used. The results show that the respondents positively evaluated the effects of marketing communication, but their expectations had been higher than what they experienced.

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Food Labels (Quality, Origin, and Sustainability): The Experience of Czech Producers

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“…In this context, the interest coverage ratio (EBIT / interest rate) is analyzed in particular. However, it is significant that a smaller number of published comprehensive papers are devoted to the specificities of gross operating margin analysis, interest coverage ratio in trading companies (Berman, 2013;Calva, 2017;Carstea et al, 2017;Corona, 2014;Gülşah et al, 2016;Hoe, 2017;Ko et al, 2017;Levy, 2014;Manini, 2017;Špička, 2016;Susmus, 2017;Tan, 2016). This particularly applies to literature in Serbia (Lukic, 2017a, b), that is, as far as we know, no work has been published so far as a whole on the issue of the importance of measuring and analyzing gross operational margin and, in that context, the cost of interest in trading companies in Serbia.…”

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The Analysis of the Interest Cost of the Trading Companies in Serbia

Lukić¹,

KLJENA²

2019

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Interest costs are a component of operational costs of trading companies. They are covered from the margin. Their size varies depending on the interest rate, foreign exchange rate, investment management efficiency, financial indebtedness, sales and other controlled and uncontrolled determinants. This paper examines the dynamics and factors of the size of the costs of interest rates of trade companies in Serbia for the period 2013-2017. The empirical results of the research show a continuous reduction of the interest costs in the last years of the analyzed period. This had a positive effect on the performance of trade companies in Serbia.

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“…There is extensive literature written on the subject of general problem of measuring the significance of gross operating margin in financial reporting for the needs of more efficient company management (Sui, 2017). However, a number of published papers dedicated to the specificities of gross operating margin analysis in commercial enterprises is significantly lower (Berman, 2013;Levy, 2014;Corona, 2014;Špička, 2016;Tan, 2016;Calva, 2017;Carstea et al, 2017;Ko et al, 2017;Hoe, 2017;Manini, 2017). This particularly applies to literature in Serbia (Lukic, 2017a, b) as far as we know, there is no complete work that has been published so far on the issue of the importance of measuring and analyzing gross operational margin in Serbia's trade companies.…”

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The Analysis of the Operative Profit Margin of Trade Companies in Serbia

Lukić¹

2018

RMCI

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Both theoretical and practical importance has recently been attached to an analysis of the operating profit margin as a measure of the long-term performance of companies. In the integrated financial reporting it is presented through various indicators based on it. In view of this, we have made a comparative analysis of the operating profit margin and its impact on the performance of trade companies in Serbia and comparable countries. The general conclusion is that it shows a growth tendency and is, nevertheless, lower in comparison to trading companies from countries of a developed market economy. In order to increase the operating profit margin, as a measure of long-term performance, it is necessary to manage the financial structure of the trading companies in Serbia as effectively as possible.

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Market Concentration and Profitability of the Grocery Retailers in Central Europe

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Food Labels (Quality, Origin, and Sustainability): The Experience of Czech Producers

Food Labels (Quality, Origin, and Sustainability): The Experience of Czech Producers

The Analysis of the Interest Cost of the Trading Companies in Serbia

The Analysis of the Operative Profit Margin of Trade Companies in Serbia

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