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Danone is the largest food company in France and is in the top ten in the world, but most of its activity is in France, Spain, and Italy. How does it become a global company? Should it? How does it leverage its leadership in yogurt, biscuits, and mineral water?

Loblaw wants to develop long-term relationships with its customers and is testing a variety of strategies to do this.

Describes the first major joint venture between a U.S. and Vietnam rice company with reqard to the world rice trade. What are the opportunities and what are the challenges?

1994 was a turnaround year for pulp prices and the Aracruz company. How does the company respond to environmental pressures and to new types of competition in the industry? Teaching Purpose: Indicates how to position oneself in the value-added timber/pulp industry in an environment-friendly manner.

Increases in orange tree production led to an orange juice surplus. How does one manage price risk in the orange juice industry under these conditions?

Wegmans is considered the "best" food retailer in the United States by Fortune Magazine. The produce department has been a key distinguishing feature of the store. The changes in the U.S. and global produce industry are forcing Wegmans to rethink its role in the industry. Teaching Purpose: The produce industry is an excellent example of the revolution occurring in the food industry. Enables students to evaluate changes in the produce industry.

Flour milling in recent years has had a great deal of consolidation. The fourth generation of a privately held firm is debating how to protect themselves in the industry as consumption, production, competition, logistics, technology, and patterns are all changing.

Wegmans is appalled at the educational system in Rochester, New York. In cooperation with store and local authorities they create a mentoring, employment and training program that becomes a model for an industry, community, and nation.

Update on the organized migrant farm worker in Ohio working with the tomatoe and cucumber growers and companies such as H.J. Heinz and Dean Foods.

The Mumias project in Kenya represents the best exchange of a private firm providing economic development leadership in a particular commodity project to examine the whole commodity system and the country.

The objective is to reconcile the trade-offs involved in setting an agricultural policy in delicate ecological settings and determine the role business should play in an imperfectly competitive developing region.

Describes the background to the recent agreement between Campbell Soup Co. growers and Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) settling a seven year dispute and boycott. This agreement serves as a possible model for resolving farm labor disputes and may provide a basis for legislation to regulate the two and a half million farmworkers in the United States.

A private agribusiness development agency is reviewed on one of its major projects in Latin America.