Study tour of Italian marketsback
A study tour on Italian wholesale markets was organised by FAO and the CEI Wholesale Markets Foundation on 6-8 June 2005. Participants visited Rome Wholesale Market, Fondi Wholesale Market, Salerno Wholesale Market and Naples Wholesale Market. The main topics of the tour were: existing interactions between traditional WMs and the food retail industry; various types of WM ownership and management models and different types of public/private partnership arrangements utilised for the development of fresh produce WMs in Italy.
During the tour there was also a seminar at FAO headquarters in Rome on the “linkages between the food retail industry and WMs".
Wholesale markets in the era of supermarkets and hypermarkets, Edward Seidler, 2005