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Food Industry and the Internet : Making Real Money in the Virtual World.
Title:
Food Industry and the Internet : Making Real Money in the Virtual World.
Author:
Smith, Drew.
ISBN:
9780470999622
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Contents:
Food Industry and the Internet -- Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Introduction -- Introduction -- Part 1: Pioneers and Turning Points -- Part 2: Stop Press! -- Part 3: Analysis -- Part 4: E-Commerce -- Part 5: The Big Players -- Part 6: USA Models -- Part 7: Net Tricks and Resources -- PART 1: PIONEERS AND TURNING POINTS -- Top chef introduces revolutionary e-cooking service -- AC Nielsen launches Web research package -- Interview: rise of an organic banker -- Pink dot goes PDQuick -- Sales training goes on the Net -- Pringles pioneers voice mail ads -- That Sainsbury's depot . . . how it works -- PART 2: STOP PRESS! -- Beer sales show 300% growth -- Pizza wars online -- Hotel bookings service gets off to flying start -- New site takes on Chateauonline -- Ex-Burger King team look to supply links -- Row over cut price Net rooms -- Flying noodles get 20 visitors a month -- Herb farm is growing -- Wine portal looks to open trade account -- Titan portal nightmare as names clash -- Gourmets showered with gifts -- Directors savage credit card bureaucracy -- Farmers launch spuds online -- Europ@web takes slice of wine portal -- Gourmet site picks up IBM award -- Rare breeds shop goes virtual -- Those 25,000 Unilever jobs - the real story -- Remote poultry breeder gets 70 visits a day -- Spicing up the net -- UK launch for wine auction site -- Case study: espresso is hot (part one) -- Case study: espresso is hot (part two) -- Fishmonger delivers within 24 hours -- Virgin snaps up orgasmic wines -- Food from Britain launches corner shop for small producers -- Another kite mark to validate e-business -- Domino sells 6000 pizzas a month -- ¡Olé! Here comes Spain! -- Chocolate orders: five to one now off the Net -- Farmers undercut supermarket prices -- Computer company wins the free phone race -- Diet foods boom on the net -- Phone charge rip-off continues.

Net trade persuades DHL to float off online services -- Whittards looks to brand alliances -- Coffee Republic signs up with Net cafes -- Cyber slimmers clean out the larder -- And not to be left behind . . . -- Jamie Oliver splashes out on his name -- Marketing -- Barclays launches e-business payment scheme -- Banner advertising flops -- One million new users sign online in April -- Not so free after all -- Le Franc re-brands with Henrietta Green -- Whoops! I Luv delays chef's launch -- Mail order now taking half its orders on the Net -- And what wine would you suggest for turbot, monsieur? -- Chocolate tops the sales in mall -- Seattle coffee profits head into cyberspace -- Survey slams online services -- UK market matures -- UK grocery market now bigger than the rest of Europe -- Tesco tests Sunday trading laws -- As if the web did not have enough recipes . . . -- Priceline to take on Europe -- Over 55s drink 15 bottles of wine a week -- . . . Which is why Richard Branson moves in -- Internet will usher in the euro -- After the Net café, comes the Net pub -- Tesco expands into America -- Lastorders.com sups up £2.5 million investment -- . . . and Eggs is looking for a £10 million benefit -- And now its 10 million, official -- Secure ordering triples orders -- Freshfood.co.uk expands organic range to 5000 lines -- Organic butchers put their beef on the Net -- Gourmet gift market flourishes -- Fish shop catches the big PR -- Coffee site is percolating -- Chicken coops go international -- Expedia sets up Internet restaurants at airport -- Hacker hoaxes Safeway -- Online diet site gets fat on Nestle deal -- Management buys out just-sites -- Tesco to win half of e-grocery market says survey -- Campbell Soups ties in with Talk City for recipe exchange -- Real time figures on online shopping -- Whoops! Not that price for WalMart!.

One hour delivery wars -- Electrical store trails kitchenware -- Europe to overtake USA in 2 years -- SimplyOrganic gets £1 million -- The beerhunter is bagged -- French make a swift exit from the crowded online wine market -- Asda parent puts all its global procurement online -- London delivery services collapse -- Interview: Fledgling gourmet site takes wing -- Waitrose cuts £35 million deal to win the last mile -- Tesco pips Foodferry.com for top rating -- Spice giant predicts Web will boost profits by five per cent -- Iceland taking £600,000 a week online -- Net diet is endorsed -- Tea sales shoot up 450% on back of Java -- Hic! It's a virtual bar -- Hole! Mex goes Tex -- Tesco says 35,000 grocery orders a week come off the Net -- Now Nestle tries its hand at recipes -- Foodoo folds -- Del Monte sells fruit direct online -- More than 7000 register turkey protest -- Now Asda lays out its battle plan -- Eggs benefit scrambled -- FoodfromBritain.com gets a new look -- PART 3: ANALYSIS -- Analysis: supermarket samurais or kamikaze -- Packers plan organic box delivery via supermarkets -- Analysis: Net GM campaign starts to bite -- Those denial attacks - chapter and verse -- Analysis: Has the bubble burst . . . -- Analysis: the rise of an Internet success story -- Analysis: the story of a one man start up -- Analysis: the top and tail of a fruit B2B -- B2B portal brings in farmers -- Tradingproduce.com unveils field to Web technology -- Analysis: Cooking on line -- Interview: USA model flourishes quietly in the UK -- Analysis: the truth about Internet fraud -- PART 4: E-COMMERCE -- He is 30, married and well educated . . . but she is catching him up -- UK Net usage surges ahead of France and Germany -- Language slows up European growth -- Online farming site goes for £7 million -- Brake Brothers to invest £12 million -- Macdonalds buys into Food.com.

New B2B food portal gets £2.6 million venturebacking -- Grocery market to hit £2.3 billion in next four years -- Nestlé and Danone tie up for e-buying -- 500,000 credit card details go AWOL -- Europeans like online shopping -- Internet Trading Exchange for food industry -- Euro e-commerce sales to top £105 billion by 2005 -- Europeans buck the trend -- Food portal swallows up fish industry site -- New B2B site for organic -- It is not all rosy in the B2B area -- Welcome to the era of intelligent software -- It's business business business -- Underlying trade in e-commerce is booming -- Advertising set to kick in as revenue model -- Produce B2B picks up 20 million new investment -- World of Fruit claims 300 companies have signed up -- Sainsbury to put 15 billion of global purchasing online -- Webvan buys HomeGrocer for 1.2 billion -- Delivery charges holding up e-commerce -- UK leads Europe -- Big Mac pays online -- American giants merge -- Bean auction trial saves 15% -- Wal-Mart signs up Shopsmart -- USA B2B portal sets up Korean venture -- Big Mac sets up trading portal -- China sets up online food exchange -- Sweetener auction saves 6% -- Efdex hits the rocks -- Kraft buys into EthnicGrocer.com -- About EthnicGrocer.com, Inc. -- B2B trail shows spectacular savings -- Electronic boxes on the doorstep -- Interview: The man behind efoodmanager.com -- Produce B2B site moves to seamless logistics -- Hewlett Packard invests 6.1 million in Foodmarketplace.com -- California set up big wine play -- Profile: Transora, the birth of a giant -- But Nestle and Danone bid to keep Transora out of Europe -- Fish site lures the money with discount rates on transactions -- Foodtrader.com deals 15 million in new funding -- Irish meat company develops full traceability software -- One billion litres of wine sold on the Net in the last four months.

Wine portal buys into negotiative software -- ecfood.com launches new suite of online tools for purchasing -- Foodvision.com forms B2B alliance in restaurant kitchen sector -- Now even sweets go for B2B -- Now smart companies post their results on line -- Wine gets groggy on too many portals -- PlanetRice takes on funding -- Thailand goes for vertical B2B site -- Tesco hooks its check-out tills to the Net -- Agribuys opens London office -- All purpose B2B seeks to rationalize market supply -- Americans move on the Spanish speaking market -- Net opens up Chinese market -- Agribuys takes in 32 million -- Nestle ties up Thailand -- Farmers combine to harvest online advertising -- Asian B2B conducts global deals -- Now recipes merge with coupons online -- Globalnetexchange claims 300 million of trade a month -- Sainsbury's ties up media play with Carlton TV -- Big Mac creates its own B2B portal -- Gofish adds news tools -- PART 5: THE BIG PLAYERS -- Anger as retailers pass on IT costs to suppliers -- Hazlewood draws the line on e-commerce -- 7000 new e-jobs at Tesco -- Supermarket brands lag behind -- Monster portal edges closer to launch -- Big two lashed in consumer test -- Attack on online supermarket prices -- Sainsbury appoints Egg head -- Banks hushing up security attacks -- Tesco is going to fall over say Americans -- Tesco defends in-store picking -- Iceland warms to the Net -- M&S go all frilly -- Tesco to split off Internet arm? -- Sainsbury launches razzmatazz down the email -- Tesco's Net profit -- Dark horse headhunts logistics wizard -- Online grocers lashed in consumer test -- Safeway snaps up home delivery company -- Now Tesco goes into mortgages -- Tesco looks to go overseas -- Asda to launch TV and Web shopping at the end of the summer -- Whoops! Safeway takes down the photos on its website. . .

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Abstract:
Who is making money on the Web and who is losing it? This book brings together the first two hundred and fifty stories to appear on the revolutionary food industry intelligence service efoodnews.com. We have interviewed many of the largest companies in the food and drink business and also those small/medium enterprises most actively pursuing e-commerce. This book concisely summarises and analyses the findings of these discussions and guides you to discover both the successful and unsuccessful strategies. If you are trying to develop a cohesive and creative online presence for your business then this book is tailor-made for you.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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