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<pre>Hello,

I received an invitation of join this list and of course did! Just wanted to say
Hi
to all the members and am looking forward to learning about oils. We don't grow
them
(find that interesting) just eat and cook with them. Think this list will be one
of
the more interesting.

Gloria
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<pre>Hello,

This is the first message I post to this newsgroup, which I find
very useful.

I am interested in olive oil marketing. More specifically, I am
making a research project on Marketing olive oil in the UK. At this
point my knowledge of olive oil is at a general level, but for the
next 3 months I am going to be working on the topic and I hope I can
contribute to the group.

Cheers,

Roberto Garcia
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<pre>Greetings Roberto!

Are you in the UK at the moment? Or are you studying it from abroad with a
view to marketing a product here?

You have picked a difficult one; it is almost impossible to get good olive
oil here (the best, IMHO, is also the cheapest, from Lidl, at GBP1.79 for 750
ml). You might think that makes the UK market an easy target for a good
quality oil. I would like to think so too, but unfortunately it's not so
simple.

I am not sure if it is due to the ignorance of the customer, or the wish of
the large supermarket chains to control what we consume, but good quality
products from abroad are almost impossible to buy here.

Would you believe, for instance, that we cannot buy mineral water with any
taste? It is all so pure that the amount of salts left are negligible. We
cannot buy something as simple as plain Fromage Frais (aka Fromage Blanc) in
any size less than 500 ml (not very practical for lunch boxes!). People in
Britain still say they prefer chocolate which has vegetable fat in it rather
than cocoa butter, but if you do a taste test the cocoa butter wins every
time. Many British people never use herbs in their cooking, let alone olive
oil! As for garlic, they think that's just for foreigners!

Britain has a long way to go in food education. You can't rely on the quality
of your olive oil to win the British consumer, unfortunately.

Regards,

Adrian (in Wales)

> Hello,
>
> This is the first message I post to this newsgroup, which I find
> very useful.
>
> I am interested in olive oil marketing. More specifically, I am
> making a research project on Marketing olive oil in the UK. At this
> point my knowledge of olive oil is at a general level, but for the
> next 3 months I am going to be working on the topic and I hope I can
> contribute to the group.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roberto Garcia
--
Adrian.Shaw@aber.ac.uk
Sefydliad Y Gwyddorau Biolegol, Prifysgol Cymru,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru
http://pcjagg.dbs.aber.ac.uk/mynegai.html
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