Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 2 Issue 4

THE ENERGY AND DISTRIBUTION CRISIS: How can the consultant help?

Escalating fuel costs, increased costs in materials handling equipment, labour costs in every sector rising — all these constitute a unique and especially pressing problem to the…

HUMAN DIMENSIONS IN RETAILING: Part 2: Social Dimensions

Jan de Somogyi

“Physical and Human Dimensions of Growth” was the title of the first part of this paper, published in our last issue. In the following pages the writer concerns himself with the…

The use of operating ratios in retail management

Ralph G Towsey

In the March/April issue we published an article by Colin Paterson of British Home Stores in which he examined the use of ratios in financial analysis and questioned to what…

BUYING — Its function in the marketing concept

Laurie Leigh

Marketing is the catalyst which maximises gross profit from turnover, and thus marketing and buying are two sides of the same coin. Laurie Leigh, Tesco Managing Director…

TRANSPORT & THE MARKETING PHILOSOPHY: DISTRIBUTION AS A WEAPON OF ATTACK

R Beckham

RHM is one of the principal groups in the food trade who run their distribution on an in‐house basis, and in the view of disinterested observers, it is not only an efficient…