Retail relations: an interlocking directorate analysis of food retailing corporations in the United States

Rachel A. Schwartz () and Thomas A. Lyson

Agriculture and Human Values, 2007, vol. 24, issue 4, 489-498

Abstract: The US food retailing industry continues to concentrate and consolidate. Power in the agriculture, food, and nutrition system has shifted from producers to processors, and is now shifting to retailers. Currently, only eight food-retailing corporations control the majority of food sales in the United States. Expanding on previous research by Lyson and Raymer ( 2000 , Agriculture and Human Values 17: 199–208), this paper examines the characteristics of the boards of directors of the leading food retailing corporations and the indirect interlocks that bind the food retailers into a corporate community. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

Keywords: Food retailing; Supermarkets; Interlocking directorates; Food and nutrition system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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