Farmers, industrialists, distributors ... For a decade, the clans of the food chain have been delivering the spectacle of a three-way household where plates are constantly flying: farmers accuse industrialists and retailers of not leaving them enough to live on; manufacturers, subsidiaries of the global giants to the 17,000 SMEs in the food industry, criticize the central purchasing agencies of distributors for engaging in pricing pressure cutting their margins and preventing them from investing, forcing them to cut jobs; engaged in a price war with each other, the brands hammer out the urge that their suppliers, by their pricing requirements, prevent them from succeeding in their fight for purchasing power.
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Neither the States General of Food, conducted in the second half of 2017, nor the Egalim law, which came into force in early 2019, has really succeeded in changing things. Annual tariff negotiations, the usual theater of clashes between industry
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