Show I Efficiency In Food Handling A great eat food producing and dis- dis distributing dis distributing company in the East has found it n necessary to bring brine togethEr under its ownership and manage manage- management management e- e ement ment a group OUD of food manufacturing companies which produce about O 0 nationally advertised products Generally G nera ly speaking such products are soldon sold on sucha such a narrow margin margin of profit that the economies economics of oC mass purchasing and mass production be- be became became be became came apparent to this concern To get the results and economies economies economies mies s however efficiency in distribution distribution distribution tion was necessary Waste had to tobe tobe be eliminated The food industry absorbs some 26 per cent or more than OGO of the nati nations nation's ns n's income This in- in industry in industry is divided into manu manu- manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing units with separate sc over over- over over- overhead overhead overhead head and selling cx expense n c for each unit It is therefore only lo logical that thata a forward looking food producing should b by acquiring other food manufacturing companies which prod produce e non competitive food pro pro- ducts products pro seek to reduce its overhead by applying the principles of mass pro pro- production pro production mass pursing purchasing and mass distribution to this most important of industries In addition n to U greater manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing ing this country has proved the soundness of its expansion chiefly by the marked larked e- e economics economies e it has effected in in adminis adminis- administrative administrative administrative e expense with resulting bene- bene benefits benefits fits to consumers |