Full Text Available

Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.

A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry

Includes abstract.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Du Toit, Chris
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Graduate School of Business 2015
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1867613201319854080
access_status_str Open Access
author Du Toit, Chris
author_browse Du Toit, Chris
author_facet Du Toit, Chris
author_sort Du Toit, Chris
collection Thesis
description Includes abstract.
format Thesis
id oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14589
institution University of Cape Town (South Africa)
language eng
last_indexed 2026-06-10T12:32:21.936Z
license_str Not specified — see source repository
provenance_str_mv Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository
publishDate 2015
publishDateRange 2015
publishDateSort 2015
publisher Graduate School of Business
publisherStr Graduate School of Business
record_format dspace
source_str UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository
spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14589 A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry Du Toit, Chris Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Wine is a beverage that accompanies and enhances a wide range of occasions, cuisines and even religious ceremonies in many cultures. It claims health benefits and brings wonderful memories to mind. We all have our own story to tell when it comes to wine. This however represents the consumer's experience. What is the producer's experience? Situation Wine markets across the globe are under pressure. According to Nielsen, over 3300 wine brands have flood grocery stores since 1999 and they now represent about 70% of active brands. South Africa owns 2.4% of the world's export market share, the 9th biggest, while wine production ranks 8t1, the world, producing 855,3 million liters for 1.7% of the worlds total production. Wine producers receive only 2% of the average R24 shelf price per 750m1 bottle of wine sold in supermarkets and at other retail outlets. On top of this the VinPro agricultural economist says wine production costs have increased by 17% but producers' incomes have risen only by an average of 3%. The industry had to deal with many challenges in its more than 300 year history e.g. the complete destruction of vineyards in 1890's due to phylloxera, single channel marketing, etc. but the economic reality of income not keeping pace with rising production costs brings one of the biggest challenges yet to the industry. Currently South Africa is known for its superb technical skills as far as wine making and viticulture is concerned. This can be seen from the amount of awards we as a country win in international competitions. It does not however create the necessary profits on the bottom line. It helps to sell the product, but still wine producers are more and more under extreme financial pressure and the current world economic condition is not helping. It is just not good enough to make the best possible wine any more, as several other forces are obviously at play here. We need to get an improved understanding of what really makes this business viable. 2015-11-02T10:52:21Z 2015-11-02T10:52:21Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14589 eng application/pdf Graduate School of Business Unknown University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Du Toit, Chris
A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
thesis_degree_str Master's
title A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
title_full A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
title_fullStr A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
title_full_unstemmed A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
title_short A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
title_sort financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14589
work_keys_str_mv AT dutoitchris afinancialeconomicapproachtomanagementinformationinthewineindustry
AT dutoitchris financialeconomicapproachtomanagementinformationinthewineindustry