Competitive Advantage Factors in Vertically Diversified Brand Chicken Business: A Partial Value Chain Analysis of a Japanese Poultry Wholesaler
ISSN | 00213551 |
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NII recode ID (NCID) | AA0068709X |
We aimed to clarify the competitive advantage of a vertically diversified brand chicken business as a method of creating a sustainable poultry business, using a part of Porter’s value chain framework to extract strengths and linkages of a company’s marketing in a case study of one enterprise adopting this business model. Company T1 achieved vertical diversification of its production, processing, distribution, sales, and restaurant businesses through its original brand chicken, produced on a direct-management farm and cooperative farms under uniform quality control. T1 internalized its poultry farming and never abandoned this model, despite its low profitability, because its original brand H chicken was a high-quality product at the core of T1’s marketing strategy. We concluded that this high-quality original product resulted in a successful vertically diversified business within the poultry industry. To achieve this success, efforts are needed to maintain high levels of quality using sophisticated human resource approaches.
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Creator | Kenji HOSONO Yuji YASHIMA |
Subject |
broiler integrator communication skills internalizing poultry farming |
Publisher | Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences |
Received Date | 2019-06-24 |
Accepted Date | 2020-03-06 |
Available Online | |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 4 |
spage | 327 |
epage | 333 |
DOI | 10.6090/jarq.54.327 |
Language | eng |