It was to be expected.
The anger of farmers, which is growing stronger every day, is putting the spotlight back on a thorny issue: the large-scale distribution purchasing centers located outside the country's borders, in Europe, and accused of circumventing French law to crush the price.
Over the past twenty years, distributors have in fact developed alliances with their European counterparts to pool their purchases of products on the Old Continent and thus better negotiate with agri-food giants like Unilever or Mondelez.
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These discussions at the European level are being carried out in parallel with the annual tariff negotiations between manufacturers and distributors which are held in France each year, and which must be completed this Wednesday for the year 2024. “
We have alliance systems which allow us to make them relevant, which allow us to make attractive prices but also which allow us to create, for example, international rice sectors…
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