Fruits, vegetables and sustainable development

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Fruits, vegetables and sustainable development




by lym66 » 15/05/13, 14:35

Hello everybody

I am an intern in a company specializing in the import and distribution of fruits and vegetables. My mission is to develop the image of their brand of f & l products within the framework of sustainable development.

Consumer opinion being at the center of my study, can you answer this little questionnaire please?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LEP9Qe ... I/viewform

In the same way, I would like your opinion on the concept? What do you expect from producers and distributors engaged in sustainable development? Do you even consume these products? etc ...

You can also find all of our commitments on our website:

http://alternea.info

Thank you all !!
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by Obamot » 15/05/13, 16:34

I find it hard to see, what connection we could make between such a general theme:

"Fruits, vegetables and sustainable development"

Related to the marketing plan of a commercial company, which seeks to promote "Branding»Of a reseller, whose job is to make wheat from the fruit of the work of others by taking us for vegetables incapable of having understood the merry-go-round.

Regarding the questionnaire
It goes without saying that the farmers are underpaid (already noted multiple times in this forum). It goes without saying that increasing their remuneration would be imperative.

I would therefore like to know what is the use of knowing why it is important to know the opinion on the concern of a "Better remuneration for farmers", since this formulation immediately proves that farmers are poorly paid. So no need for a survey, just go from words to deeds!

Should be seen to stop taking us for hams.

Goods.
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by Christophe » 15/05/13, 16:36

Do not look for Obamot, everyone has turned green today ... this "student" may be sincere!

However, strange, there are quite a few clues that are really improving on the playing field ... that is planet Earth for some ...
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by Obamot » 15/05/13, 17:00

I'm going to quibble ... I'm going to quibble ...

For example, I would like to know WHO is behind the funding of all of this!

- no duly registered company name, just a "concept" ...
- no name of responsible person ...
- no address ...

CQFD: It is well presented but it is just round the flank amha.

I would wait for the producers to organize themselves into a distribution coop, that would "solve the problem" of intermediate leagues who are looking to put their pockets on the backs of those who really work - despite their beautiful "colorful profession of faith" - and it would be classified ...!
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by Christophe » 15/05/13, 17:03

The whois overlooks the .info:

Organization: Lacour SAS
Address 1: Avenue de frankfort
City: Perpignan
State: France
Zip: 66000
Country: FR
Phone: +1.9199029096


And Lacour SAS is: http://www.lacour-fruits.fr/

Their production, excluding alternea, obviously has nothing responsible, sustainable or even local: the majority of their production is Spanish (where we probably do the worst European in terms of fungicide or pesticides ...) but also a lot of stuff in Maghreb ... in short, very little French ...

Click on "our products" on their site to see the different origins ...
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by Obamot » 15/05/13, 17:17

Bein woui, that is held, (the graphic envelope is the same).

When we don't advertise the color, here we still find : Mrgreen: : Cheesy:

Good, good ... A BIG partner of the GREAT distrib ... ??? Tah Daaaah!
http://www.lacour-fruits.fr/#/people

Image

Monitoring of market quotes
(nothing to do with the sensitive chord "of the concern to preserve the ch'tit local producer" announced)

Image

... 24 hours from home ... at 90 km / h it's more than 2 km, um, how much diesel does that? And it claims to be concerned with nature?

It is far! And besides I would like to see ... who will check?

We sell much more for what we buy elsewhere peanut (Morocco, Tunisia, etc) nothing very new under the sun, although the packaging is attractive ... Hell is paved with ...
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by Christophe » 15/05/13, 17:26

Bah want to "change" so that's good ...

But hey, if it's so that the "sustainable" constitutes less than 1% of their mass production but that this represents 99% of their communication, somewhere, that bothers me a bit ...
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by lym66 » 15/05/13, 17:45

The vague theme "Fruits, vegetables and sustainable development" was deliberately chosen in an evasive manner to obtain the general opinion of Internet users.

The concept of this brand is not part of the pure distribution since it is a brand developed by our company. We are convinced of the merits of our commitments and we are just looking for a way to consume "otherwise".

It must however be understood that such a commitment is not possible at all ... This communication therefore aims to publicize Alternea so that the brand best meets the expectations of consumers. We try to bring our stone to the building, but Rome was not built in 1 day….

Regarding the questionnaire, in fact the subject of the remuneration of producers is not dealt with (with regard to my mission and my thesis subject in any case). So I take good note of your post. ;)
That said, the producers who have been selected for this brand have also signed the "Commitment No. 5". The chosen partners have agreed to sign the Global Compact which commits to a personal approach with respect for Human Rights and Labour Standards.

In any case, I appreciate your interventions. Any remark, whether good or bad is good to take and allows me to put solutions in place.
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by Christophe » 15/05/13, 17:55

Good answer, welcome again here :)
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by Obamot » 15/05/13, 17:59

+1 with this reaction. But I'm going to quibble again ...

From my point of view, it should rather be the distributors who commit to the producers, and not vice versa ...

1) Because pesticides (whether organic or not) it is they who absorb them well before end consumers!

2) I have rarely seen in the industry, the distribution escape production.

3) When this happens, it reveals the whole problem of the unproductive tertiary sector, which "levies its indirect tax" on the price of goods (and therefore the sale price). Yes I know, what pleads in your favor is that distribution is a REAL job.

But, ideally, this shouldn't be. So you should do like the Chinese do, buy back land and worry about its biodiversity and avoid soil depletion (precisely what seems to be your specifications) because there - you would really become responsible for the condition of the soil. , since it would be yours "good" - And it is a specialist in marketing who tells you so (and who was first of his promotion with for teacher the right arm of one of the largest distribution chain ...) So so much the better if you have understood that sooner or later we will take all our abuse in the teeth (the cost of the disease continues to increase, is this already an abnormal sign?)

By way of example, the danger is that when the large retailers take up land, the spectrum of GMOs and of the possible use of ruined land will then point - in the great ball of supply VS demand - be delivered to sustained exploitation in order to produce biofuels without any regulations or whatever ... And it is moreover through these “commitments” of farmers, that companies like Montsanto are able to take control of this sector (of course not you, you are not concerned?)

All this is not very good for the image. In short, you are sitting between two chairs asintermediate and distributor of "responsible trade" (if not fair, we wish you ...), and it is really not comfortable to find the "good com that is going well"I concede it!
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