IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uamsmr/312025.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Boston Wholesale Food Distribution Facilities

Author

Listed:
  • Taylor, Earl G.

Abstract

Excerpts from the report: This study of wholesale food marketing in Boston was initiated in 1962 at the request of Boston city officials and responsible civic agencies. The request was prompted by the activation of the Downtown Waterfront Renewal project which will force the relocation of one of the major concentrations of food wholesalers in the city. The Waterfront renewal project is a joint undertaking of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Recognizing the need for proper food distribution facilities for the entire city, Boston officials requested the U.S. Department of Agriculture to undertake a comprehensive study of the wholesale food handling facilities in the metropolitan area. The present study had the following objectives : • To analyze the wholesale marketing facilities for major food commodities and to determine the adequacy of these facilities in light of present and future needs. • To estimate the major measurable costs and other factors involved in handling these commodities under present operating conditions. • To determine the kind and amount of facilities required to provide efficient wholesale marketing of these commodities, the cost of construction, probable operating expenses, and source of income in the proposed facilities. • To outline the potential benefits that might be derived from construction of modern wholesale food facilities for serving the metropolitan area

Suggested Citation

  • Taylor, Earl G., 1965. "Boston Wholesale Food Distribution Facilities," Marketing Research Reports 312025, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uamsmr:312025
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312025
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/312025/files/mrr732.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.312025?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uamsmr:312025. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/amsgvus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.