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Crisis Management in the Food and Drinks Industry A practical approach Second Edition Colin Doeg

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Crisis Management in the Food and Drinks Industry Second edition

Crisis Management in the Food and Drinks Industry A practical approach Second Edition

Colin Doeg

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doeg, Colin. Crisis management in the food and drinks industry : a practical approach / by Colin Doeg.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-387-23382-2 1. Food industry and trade—Management. 2. Beverage industry—Management. 3. Crisis management. I. Title. HD9000.5.D597 2005 664 .0068 4—dc22 2004065092

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-387-23382-2  C 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.

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Contents

Series editor’s foreword Acknowledgements Preface

ix xiii xv

1 The anatomy of a crisis

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2 Protecting your brands and reputation 2.1 Designing hazards out of a system 2.2 Need for risk assessment procedures 2.3 Benefits of ‘due diligence’ 2.4 Marketers beware 2.5 Benefits of corporate citizenship

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3 Preparing for the unthinkable 3.1 Threats to take into account 3.2 First hint of a serious problem 3.3 Sources of help and advice 3.4 Checklist for crisis team 3.5 No magic solutions 3.6 Crisis, what crisis? 3.7 Feel and instinct

23 24 26 28 30 32 33 34

4 The Internet—a two-edged sword

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5 Tactics to avoid being caught off-guard

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6 Product tampering—a constant threat 6.1 Keeping issues in perspective

57 58

7 Issues tracking and management 7.1 An orchestrated campaign 7.2 A suspect ingredient 7.3 Putting matters in perspective

65 66 68 70

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8 Meeting the media 8.1 Presentation skills 8.2 Reacting to a problem 8.3 Opportunities and pitfalls 8.4 Video news releases 8.5 Video bites 8.6 Keeping issues in perspective

73 76 77 77 90 91 91

9 Do I need help?

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10 Sources of technical help

99

11 The powers of enforcement authorities

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12 Managing a crisis 12.1 Immediate actions 12.2 Is a public recall really necessary? 12.3 Directing media enquiries 12.4 Beware of this information channel 12.5 Preparing a media statement 12.6 Going ‘live’ 12.7 Be prepared for ‘the treatmen