Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
by AdrianB1 on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:17PM
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In 2002-2005 I worked with all the supermarket and hypermarket chains in Romania, I still have a couple of friends in CxO positions in the top 5 companies; you are missing the full picture on what happened there, but the story is too long for a comment here; the 2007 change had zero impact of what already happened in the early 2000s.
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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
by oblio on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:33PM
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I wanted to keep it simple for non-Romanians. The process started as Romania was implementing the EU acquis, after 1999.
I'd be interested in the story, if you have time, but my only comment for everyone else reading this, these are technicalities, regarding the gist of my comment. They only change the timeline, but the main idea is the same.
Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
by AdrianB1 on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:39PM
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That is the point, the main idea is wrong. The 2 major factors were lack of experience of the Romanian owners (I had very close friends that worked at the failed Univers'all chain, it was total chaos) and capital to build the right format at the right quality.