Proximity Approach as an Option in Global Markets

Abstract

CRAI was founded in 1973 by a small group of food retailers that joined forces to set up the Commissionarie Riunite Alta Italia (C.R.A.I), which later on turned into Commissionarie Riunite Alimentaristi Italiani. The company as a buying group has become in such a short time a key player in the Italian food retail sector developing an Italian retail business model based on the ‘proximity store’ as option to compete in a global market.

Keywords

• retailing
• proximity stores
• buying group
• private label
• market- driven management
• over-supply