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Excerpt from 24th National Conference of Bargaining and Marketing Cooperatives, January 10-11, 1980, New Orleans, Louisiana: Proceedings Concentration is increasing. The 50 largest firms' share of food manufacturing assets in the decade and a half between 1963 and 1978 increased by more than half, from 42 to 64 percent. This percentage point annual increase is an acceleration. Of an upward trend which for the previous decade and a half (1950 - 63) saw asset concentration increase at a half a percentage point a year. If the present trend continues, 50 firms will account for all food manufacturing assets by the year 2000. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.