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Abstract
The new orientation of the Common Agriculture Policy encourages producers to
respond to market forces. In addition, the public expect producers to contribute to a
living countryside. Based on this context, the purpose of the paper is to discuss what
other marketing alternatives exist for the promotion of mountain quality food products
beyond labelling. This is done through the analyses of shelves and postal surveys to
retailers, carried out as part of the EU project EuroMARC, which included
information for Austria, France, Norway, Romania, Slovenia and UK (Scotland). The
analysis concentrates on two product promotion aspects: display and store-promotion,
and communication of product attributes. The results indicate that even
without labelling policy there is scope to improve the promotion of mountain quality
food products.