Le redéploiement international des industries alimentaires et les silences de la politique industrielle française

For the past ten years the development potential of the French foodstuffs industry has been taken up by the concentration of firms and the adaptation of their industrial and commercial network to the evolution of technology and distribution in France. The development of the foodstuffs industry must now be pursued not only by exportation but also by investment in all its forms. The present analysis explains the motives, mechanisms and the means necessary to set up a French foreign investments policy beside its export policy. In this field, the French foodstuffs industry is lagging far behind that of America or Great Britain. This could be made up far more rapidly by a concerted effort towards development both abroad and in France, on the part of the French foodstuffs industry groups and the other branches of the agro-industrial sector such as firms specializing in farming and foodstuffs material.