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DISTRIBUTIVE TRADE
CONTENT
- Roles of Cooperative Societies in Product Distribution
- Roles of Government Agencies in Product Distribution
- Problems of Distribution of Commodities in West Africa
- Reasons or Circumstances that May Warrant the Elimination or By-passing or Omission of the Middlemen in the Channel of Distribution
- Types of Warehouses
- Problems of Distribution and Marketing of Commodities in West Africa
Roles of Cooperative Societies in Product Distribution
Cooperative society is a business organization in which a group of individuals who have common interest mutually agree to come together to establish, in order to promote their economic activities like production, distribution or marketing of goods and services and provision of other welfare benefits to their members.
In this era of scarcity of essential commodities, government has encouraged the formation of cooperative societies in order to counteract the atrocious activities of hoarders. Consequently, consumers, retails and wholesaler co-operatives societies emerged. These co-operative societies that are mainly found in urban areas perform the following functions in the distribution of goods.
- They bring goods nearer to the consumers.
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