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Article: Time to take the industry's temperature. (frozen food industry)
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- Frozen Food Digest
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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Trade shows and business seminars are usually an accurate barometer of business conditions. It was not surprising then that most of the conventions I attended included seminars with ominous titles such as "Cost Cutting For The 90's" or "Controlling Fleet Costs in Tough Times". Like many attendees, I pushed my way into the standing-room-only seminars where I listened to heated discussions about labor policies, tractor maintenance schedules and, of course, workers compensation horror stories. Not once, though, did I hear about any training programs or management task forces dedicated to the reduction in revenues due to temperature related losses. Temperature related losses ...