APLICATION OF WASHING MACHINE AND ROTARY DRYER FOR INCREASING ADDED VALUE EMPON-EMPON IN BANDAR VILLAGE, DISTRICT, PACITAN. Bandar Village is located in District, Pacitan Regency. The economy of the people supported by traditional medicinal plants, especially empon-empon as main commodity. Most farmers are small who depend on selling their crops to middlemen. middlemen argue that prices at farm...

Milk has an important role as a vehicle for rural development. Many factors are implicated in milk value chain and marketability in Egypt such as milk production practices, unorganized farmer community, seasonal fluctuation both in production and consumption, financial aspects of dairying, role of middlemen, infrastructure, price fixation and role of government agencies. Many governmental regul...

Pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies are the middlemen of the pharmaceutical industry, designing plans for sponsors and insurers and pushing the products of manufacturers. Their unique position can often create conflicts of interest, which has been the basis of much litigation. This article reviews the structure of the PBM industry and analyzes concerns arising from its handling of presc...

Numerous studies of the interaction between buyers and sellers in a market can be found in the rapidly developing research literature on electronic commerce (EC). This interaction usually takes the form of a transaction process, in which goods or services are exchanged between customers and suppliers. (See Figure 1.) This process may involve none, one or several intermediaries or middlemen, dep...

Tn applying cooperative game theory to economic problems of exchange, it is standard to assume that all logically possible coalitions may form. However, because of institutional, legal, or physical barriers, it may in fact be impossible for certain sets of agents to communicate or trade with one another directly. It would seem worthwhile to recognize this and to analyze the impact of such barri...

Things didn’t quite work out that way. Although it’s true that in some industries, processes of socalled disintermediation occurred (one example being the increased sale of tickets by airline Web sites, sometimes removing ticket agents from the distribution channel), in other industries new types of intermediaries arose, providing their own style of added value to electronic commercial interact...