International franchising success factors: A guide for Australian franchise systems. Australia is considered the most 'franchised' nation in the world. With 850 franchisors, it has over three times the number of systems per capita than the United States. However, Australian franchises are small due to the country's limited population, with 60% of systems holding fewer than 30 units. One third of Australian franchisors now operates internationally, however little is known about how they plan an ....International franchising success factors: A guide for Australian franchise systems. Australia is considered the most 'franchised' nation in the world. With 850 franchisors, it has over three times the number of systems per capita than the United States. However, Australian franchises are small due to the country's limited population, with 60% of systems holding fewer than 30 units. One third of Australian franchisors now operates internationally, however little is known about how they plan and implement their expansion strategies. It appears that franchisors are reacting to approaches made by overseas investors rather than proactively developing international expansion strategies. This research will examine the practices of successful exporters to develop a model of best practice for future activity in the sector.Read moreRead less
Increasing Visitor Frequency: approach to understanding and forecasting how cultural attraction visitors respond to various incentives to increase visitation rates. Museums have been steadily losing visitors over the past decade. While current research indicates that this may be attributed to greater leisure competition, little is understood about how people make choices to visit or not to visit cultural attractions. The aim of this project is to develop, demonstrate and test a Random Utility Th ....Increasing Visitor Frequency: approach to understanding and forecasting how cultural attraction visitors respond to various incentives to increase visitation rates. Museums have been steadily losing visitors over the past decade. While current research indicates that this may be attributed to greater leisure competition, little is understood about how people make choices to visit or not to visit cultural attractions. The aim of this project is to develop, demonstrate and test a Random Utility Theory (RUT)-based modelling approach allowing managers of cultural attractions to understand and predict the likely visitation consequences of potential initiatives. We wish to model visitor choices of museums versus other competing attractions to allow museums to identify specific strategic actions (or combinations) to achieve organisational goals.Read moreRead less
Building An Evidence Base: The Point Of Order Experience For Victorian Seafood Consumers
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$16,000.00
Summary
The country of origin of seafood available for purchase in Australia is an important but inherently complex area of investigation. There are a number driving ambitions right now including a need to: o In the longer term, build an evidence base to describe and measure the consumer experience at point of order specifically in regards to the information available around the Country of Origin of seafood they are considering purchasing. Seafood can be purchased at a range of different venues fr ....The country of origin of seafood available for purchase in Australia is an important but inherently complex area of investigation. There are a number driving ambitions right now including a need to: o In the longer term, build an evidence base to describe and measure the consumer experience at point of order specifically in regards to the information available around the Country of Origin of seafood they are considering purchasing. Seafood can be purchased at a range of different venues from fish and chip outlets, cafes, pubs and clubs, at sporting and entertainment venues, in facilities like hospitals and aged care facilities, to in flight F&B service through to everyday and top end restaurants. Given this is inherently broad and somewhat unbounded nature of these different purchase channels it has been acknowledged this is a large and complex exercise.
o There are some immediate time pressures with a Seafood Origin Working Group meeting scheduled for November 22 2017. There is a need to be in a position to present some evidence about the consumer point of order experience at this meeting. From our discussions it is clear we need to focus on the most immediate point, that being the November 22 meeting in Canberra. It is hoped that through a well designed market research study, evidence about the experience consumers have in seeking and receiving information about the Country of Origin of the seafood they are looking to purchase can be provided. To achieve this in the short window available the research will need to be tightly defined in scope and coverage and pragmatic in what we can reasonably achieve.
Objectives: 1. Build an evidence base to describe and measure the consumer experience at point of order specifically in regards to the information available around the Country of Origin of seafood they are considering purchasing. Read moreRead less
Live Export Opportunities For Value-adding Of Australian Freshwater And Estuarine Fishes
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$197,730.00
Summary
Preliminary estimates indicate that South Australia's inland/estuarine commercial fishers may be missing out on $3.5-24.5million annually from their relatively static finfish production, representing 67%-540% of the current domestic landed value - all from the lack of a readily available, robust live transport technology! This likely translates to proportionately greater export losses nationally - and missed Industry earnings for reinvestment. At the same time, experts (see FRDC Project Report ....Preliminary estimates indicate that South Australia's inland/estuarine commercial fishers may be missing out on $3.5-24.5million annually from their relatively static finfish production, representing 67%-540% of the current domestic landed value - all from the lack of a readily available, robust live transport technology! This likely translates to proportionately greater export losses nationally - and missed Industry earnings for reinvestment. At the same time, experts (see FRDC Project Report 92/125.26) indicate much research is already complete. However, for Australian inland/estuarine finfish, no well evaluated and packaged system exists to make live export marketing happen now.
Despite the massive value-adding success from export of quality marine fish products to high demand Asian and other overseas markets, Australian freshwater parallels have not been developed. Production potential from freshwater and estuarine wild capture fisheries has limited capacity to expand, therefore, industry profitability incentives must focus on obtaining greater return on sustainable harvest. Australian freshwater and estuarine fishes are consistently and depressingly undervalued relative to equivalent species on overseas markets (eg, black bream seldom exceed $14A/kg on the South Australian market despite a 96% reduction in harvest since the 1970's while the almost identical Japanese or sea bream, Acanthopagrus latus, regularly returns $45US/kg in Asian metropolitan markets).
Concurrently, development of aquaculture capacity for these same freshwater and estuarine species lags behind higher return marine counterparts due to inadequate profit incentives. This is particularly evident given that similar species worldwide are typically more robust to culture conditions and therefore first to be cultured.
Successful development and transfer of live shipping technology for key Australian freshwater and estuarine species to both wild capture and aquaculture industries has the capacity to overcome these current limitations. Live marketing of wild production can harvest export value, increase profitability per unit production, and provide an identical mechanism for development of a parallel domestic market. Typically, export initiatives provide extremely strong incentives for continuous improvement of product quality. Success in a foreign market also provides excellent protection of our home markets through competitive advantage. The profit incentive of elevated prices domestically and abroad will necessarily spur development of cultured production of these same species. Objectives: 1. To evaluate and document the range of live transport options available worldwide for golden perch, Murray cod, mulloway, cockles (pipis) and black bream relative to survival, cost, and simplicity/practicality. 2. To investigate the value-adding potential of live marketed fish of the nominated species on three major Asian metropolitan fish markets relative to market acceptance/need, value at auction, product tailoring, continuity of supply, promotional needs and import/transport costs. 3. To document the resulting system aimed at maximizing net return to fishers per unit product (by species) in the form of a export marketing plan, and as a brochure providing a step-wise "how to live export freshwater and estuarine finfish" process. 4. To successfully incorporate/transfer any resulting value-adding export marketing system successfully into industry. Read moreRead less
Implementing And Evaluating The Australian Seafood Trade Agenda 2016 - 2018 - Seafood Trade Advisory Group (STAG)
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$81,500.00
Summary
Australian seafood exporters still face a number of formal technical (e.g. SO2 in canned Abalone) and informal systemic barriers (e.g. deemed value) to trade which add cost and complexities which in the longer term could result in the opportunities created in the recent conclusion of a suite of FTAs with Asian markets not being fully realised.
The 2014 Seafood Exporters Forum (45 exporters participated) agreed to continue the STAG to continue to focus on key priorities for the most imp ....Australian seafood exporters still face a number of formal technical (e.g. SO2 in canned Abalone) and informal systemic barriers (e.g. deemed value) to trade which add cost and complexities which in the longer term could result in the opportunities created in the recent conclusion of a suite of FTAs with Asian markets not being fully realised.
The 2014 Seafood Exporters Forum (45 exporters participated) agreed to continue the STAG to continue to focus on key priorities for the most important markets (China, Hong Kong and Japan). Other sectors were invited to join the STAG provided they support the STAG activities with resources and communicate according to the agreed key messages (outlined in the STAG Trade Agenda).
Research on macro economic trends in important markets and potential FTA implementation issues that may impede capitalisation on the opportunities provided by those FTAs and are reflected in the agreed Seafood Trade Agenda priorities for 2016-2018 (attached). Having a unified voice on these priorities and addressing issues as they arise is the cornerstone of the success of the STAG to date.
The STAG needs to coordinate communication and extension of research as well as continue to prioritise research priorities to keep access to global markets. As a relatively new group the STAG needs to formalise partnership arrangements that includes more industry sectors, implement a governance structure and establish a more stable funding base, including the establishment of a secretariat with capacity to respond to issues and responsibility for implementing and reporting on the Trade Agenda.
This project will provide the co-contribution agreed for the PASE funded Seafood Asian Seafood Market Access Project. The funds from this project will be used to ensure that the outcomes of the PASE project are communicated and extended effectively to industry and that industry issues are communicated back to the project team. It will establish a new governance and reporting arrangement for the STAG and negotiate with the newly forming national peak body for it to assume the ongoing secretariat role for the STAG.
Objectives: 1. To support Australian government trade liberalisation and seafood exporters objectives by coordinating action on priority issues identified in the seafood Trade Agenda and Action Plan 2016-2018 2. To formalise STAG partnership and governance arrangements and develop a pathway for the establishment of a Seafood Trade Advisory Group as part of the newly forming national peak industry body 3. To establish the capacity to monitor and respond to non technical trade and market access issues that arise outside of the Trade Agenda and Action Plan 2016-2018 Read moreRead less
Undertaking An Audit And Assessment Of Past Australian Aquaculture Research, Development And Extension For All Species, To Determine What Factors Led To Successful Or Not Successful Development Of The Aquaculture Species
Funder
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation
Funding Amount
$19,097.83
Summary
To meet the projected seafood demand by 2030 Australian aquaculture needs to increase its rate of growth in both production and competitiveness (FRDC 2016). Extensive R&D efforts have been invested in more than 90 aquaculture species over the last five decades in Australia. Nonetheless, fewer than 10% of these species have reach recognized production in either tonnage or value. Presently, only Atlantic salmon, tiger prawn, barramundi and oysters are considered as major aquaculture species in Aus ....To meet the projected seafood demand by 2030 Australian aquaculture needs to increase its rate of growth in both production and competitiveness (FRDC 2016). Extensive R&D efforts have been invested in more than 90 aquaculture species over the last five decades in Australia. Nonetheless, fewer than 10% of these species have reach recognized production in either tonnage or value. Presently, only Atlantic salmon, tiger prawn, barramundi and oysters are considered as major aquaculture species in Australia. This highlights the need to identify possible gaps in our research and extension activities, and the barriers to successful commercialization of new aquaculture species.
Importantly, research interest alone is unlikely to be sufficient to drive aquaculture production of targeted species. The observed limited production or lack of investment in new species may indicate differences in new species preferences among the relevant stakeholders, i.e. scientists, consumers, traders, investors, producers, policy makers and regulators. These differing perspectives should therefore be analysed to provide a better understanding of the conditions required for successful development of a new aquaculture species.
The project proposed here - “Auditing research effort on aquaculture species and industry adoption for production growth” - is consistent with national priorities and strategies of both FRDC and CSIRO. Under the FRDC’s Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) Plan 2015-20, one of three national priorities is to develop new or emerging aquaculture growth opportunities with the aim of delivering RD&E to help promote the establishment of one or two species at commercial scale production. To address this priority the FRDC has established the New and Emerging Aquaculture Opportunities (NEAO) subprogram. Similarly, CSIRO Aquaculture has continuously emphasized the importance of delivering innovative impacts that transform aquaculture production in more-sustainable ways. This implies either removing identified barriers for current aquaculture species or investing in targeted strategic R&D on carefully-selected new species in collaboration with industrial partners.
Objectives: 1. To audit research effort on aquaculture species and industry adoption, and identify possible barriers to further growth of production 2. To establish an open-access database that documents research progress, industry adoption and barriers to further development of aquaculture species in Australia Read moreRead less