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The Staff of Life? - References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use; indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Biz/ed resources:

• The Market System - Interactive resource (http://www.bized.co.uk/learn/economics/markets/mechanism/interactive/part1.htm)
• In The News items covering Competitive Advantage in various products:
  • Supermarkets (http://www.bized.co.uk/dataserv/chron/news/2497.htm)
  • TV recording devices (http://www.bized.co.uk/dataserv/chron/news/2585.htm)
  • Personal computers (http://www.bized.co.uk/dataserv/chron/news/2651.htm)
• Inferior goods - glossary term (http://www.bized.co.uk/cgi-bin/glossarydb/browse.pl?glostopic=0&glosid=623)

Web sites

• Britain's leading grocery brands - Report from AC Nielsen (http://uk.acnielsen.com/news/pr20060301.shtml)
• £1: the price of a loaf of bread - from the Daily Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/23/nbread23.xml)
• Bread price set to rise past £1 a loaf - from the Scotsman (hhttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=34822007)
• The Federation of Bakers(http://www.bakersfederation.org.uk/home.aspx)
• Statistics on the UK bread market - from the Federation of Bakers (http://www.bakersfederation.org.uk/uk_bread_market.aspx)
• Warburtons (http://www.warburtons.co.uk/index.php)
• Allied Bakeries (http://www.alliedbakeries.co.uk/)
• British Bakeries Ltd (http://www.britishbakeries.co.uk/)
• Product sales and trade in the bread industry [PDF, 184KB] (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_commerce/PRA-20050/PRA15810_20050.pdf)
• Bread gets sliced-up - from Food Manufacture (http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/1684/Bread_gets_sliced-up.html)
• Competitive advantage - summary from 12 Manage (http://www.12manage.com/methods_porter_competitive_advantage.html)
• Bread as a Giffen Good? (http://www.cr1.dircon.co.uk/TB/1/giffen.htm )
• Facts about bread in the UK - from the Flour Advisory Bureau (http://www.fabflour.co.uk/Freestyle.asp?PageID=233)
• Warburtons banking on bread market growth - from Food&Drinkeurope.com (http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/news/ng.asp?id=55433-warburtons-banking-on)
• Warburtons expands to make fresh bread available faster - from Food&Drinkeurope.com (http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/news/ng.asp?n=63755-warburtons-premium-bread-uk-bread-market)
• Bread & Bakery Products Market Report 2006 - summary (http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=9952)