Goat Dairy Product Assortment in Different Sales Channels in Northwestern Italy
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General Information | Product Information |
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Origin | References (Number) | ||
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Large-Scale Retail Chains | Retail sales | Farmers’ Market | |
Italy | |||
Piedmont | 130 | 62 | 49 |
District | |||
Turin | 21 | 30 | 38 |
Cuneo | 56 | 21 | |
Asti | 22 | 2 | 2 |
Biella | 22 | 4 | |
Novara | 2 | 5 | 9 |
Alexandria | 7 | ||
Lombardy | 115 | 1 | |
Sardinia | 92 | 2 | |
Lazio | 20 | 1 | |
Val D’Aosta | 6 | 2 | |
European Countries | |||
United Kingdom | 31 | 2 | |
Belgium | 10 | 1 | |
France | 82 | 7 | |
Total | 494 | 78 | 49 |
Sign | Regional (Piedmont) Products | Other Origin | Total | % of Regional Products |
---|---|---|---|---|
a | 5 | 6 | 11 | 45% |
b | 9 | 0 | 9 | 100% |
c | 9 | 1 | 10 | 90% |
d | 11 | 4 | 15 | 73% |
e | 13 | 2 | 15 | 87% |
f | 12 | 0 | 12 | 100% |
g | 3 | 3 | 6 | 50% |
Total | 62 | 16 | 78 | 79% |
Country of Origin | Refrigerated Counter | Lane | Total |
---|---|---|---|
France | 12 | 70 | 82 |
Lombardy | 53 | 62 | 115 |
Piedmont | 92 | 38 | 130 |
Sardinia | 49 | 43 | 92 |
Other | 25 | 50 | 75 |
Total | 231 | 263 | 494 |
LRC types | References (no.) | Producers (no.) | No. References/No. Producers | Mean Price (€/kg or €/l) | ||||
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Mean | Min | Max | Mean | Min | Max | |||
Hypermarket | 20.2 | 9 | 36 | 11.4 | 4 | 17 | 1.8 | 15.87 |
Supermarket | 9 | 1 | 22 | 5.7 | 1 | 12 | 1.6 | 16.99 |
Free service | 7 | 2 | 15 | 5.1 | 2 | 9 | 1.4 | 18.28 |
Discount | 0.7 | 0 | 2 | 0.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14.43 |
Product type | Producer | Total | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Cheeses | ||||||
Fresh | 6 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 9 |
Soft | 4 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 16 |
Semi-hard | 14 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 19 |
Spreader | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 |
Other products | ||||||
Custard | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Total | 28 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 49 |
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Massaglia, S.; Borra, D.; Merlino, V.M. Goat Dairy Product Assortment in Different Sales Channels in Northwestern Italy. Animals 2019, 9, 823. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9100823
Massaglia S, Borra D, Merlino VM. Goat Dairy Product Assortment in Different Sales Channels in Northwestern Italy. Animals. 2019; 9(10):823. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9100823
Chicago/Turabian StyleMassaglia, Stefano, Danielle Borra, and Valentina Maria Merlino. 2019. "Goat Dairy Product Assortment in Different Sales Channels in Northwestern Italy" Animals 9, no. 10: 823. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9100823
APA StyleMassaglia, S., Borra, D., & Merlino, V. M. (2019). Goat Dairy Product Assortment in Different Sales Channels in Northwestern Italy. Animals, 9(10), 823. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9100823