Wow from what I can tell alot of scotch is still made in Scotland.... Imagine that.
What is the best world strategy for liquor manuf. and distribution, localized single manuf. plants that have their own distribution and marketing or large scale ( like what pernot ricard seems to be ) centralized manuf, dist. and marketing.
Remember my comments about centralized vs distributed management ? I am thinking that distributed is best for the owner and centralized best for the consumer based upon economies of scale. ( these are very brief summaries and a whole book can be written on each topic obviously, And with each example there are exceptions that prove the assumption wrong I am sure.)
However centralized produces fewer jobs with more income per employee I would imagine. Distributed would offer more opportunities for sole propriety ownership, however with centralized all you need to do is own the stock ( you just have little say in the matter, often times anyways ). With distributed you probably cannot own stock in the companies however more owners exist for each product would have its own plant/owner.
I think that there is almost an equal weight argument for either design. So is that flipflopping or just seeing both sides of the coin ? The only way to know which is best is to talk to all people effected by the 2 different ( lots of other variants I am sure ) management styles. And then when you actually ask all folks involved make sure they are speaking without an "injected by others" sort of bias. Most people probably dont care about which method for ultimately the product reaches the shelves and they purchasse it, right ?
Soooooo I can see why lots of babbling would occur on this subject for in my mind there is no easy answer. I would give the slight edge to distributed management more owners, private land and building ownership, BUT somehow allowing for some public investment through the markets I would imagine. ( markets tend to be brutal though ).
Does anyone else understand this confusion or is it only me ???
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