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| Name = Mount Yamanlar |
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| company_name = Farmfoods Limited |
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| Photo = Vehbim 2007 subat yamanlar04.jpg|200px |
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| company_type = [[Privately held company|Private]] |
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| Caption = View of the Gulf of İzmir from Mount Yamanlar |
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| Elevation = {{convert|1076|m|ft|0}}, see [[#Elevation|section]] |
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| company_logo = [[Image:Farmfoods Logo.svg|250px|Farmfoods logo]] |
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| Location = Yamanlar village, [[Karşıyaka]], [[İzmir]], [[Turkey]] |
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| slogan = The Frozen Food Specialists |
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| location = [[Cumbernauld]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] |
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| Type = [[Shield volcano]] |
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| locations = 300 |
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| key_people = Eric Herd <small>([[Chairman]]) |
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| num_employees = 3071 (2005) |
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| industry = [[Retail]] |
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| products = [[frozen food]] |
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| homepage = [http://www.farmfoods.co.uk www.farmfoods.co.uk] |
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'''Yamanlar''' is the name of a small village and a historically significant mountain (''Yamanlar Dağı'') near [[İzmir]], [[Turkey]]. Both the village and the mountain are located within the boundaries of the Greater Metropolitan Area of [[İzmir]] and administratively depend İzmir's metropolitan district of [[Karşıyaka]]. |
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'''Farmfoods''' is an expanding [[supermarket]] chain in the [[United Kingdom]]. Farmfoods' stores specialise in [[frozen food]] and also offer a large range of everyday essentials and grocery items; including soft drinks, confectionery, bread, milk, deserts along with fresh fruit and vegetables. |
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The village is at a distance of 20 km from Karşıyaka center and it is along the road to the summit of Mount Yamanlar. |
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A [[crater lake]] called "Karagöl" (''meaning "Black Lake" in [[Turkish language|Turkish]]'') is found at the summit, as well as amenities for visitors, and it commands an impressive view of the [[Gulf of İzmir]] from the northeast. |
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== History == |
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Farmfoods is one of the most successful privately-owned businesses in the [[United Kingdom]] and has traded profitably for nearly 50 years. |
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Since it is relatively close to the city and easy to access, Yamanlar is a popular excursion spot for İzmir's inhabitants. It is served by a good road, which is nevertheless a steep climb. |
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From its roots as an [[Aberdeen]]-based meat manufacturing business, Farmfoods began to freeze products to enable a wider geographical distribution to catering outlets. Steadily, products were dispatched further afield, to major Scottish cities like [[Glasgow]] and [[Edinburgh]] and with growth, further lines by larger manufacturers such as chips by [[McCain Foods Limited|McCain]] were introduced. |
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By 1975 the entire business had changed and focused on retail rather than wholesale supply. An experimental [[freezer centre]] was set up in Aberdeen and was very successful. A further 10 freezer centres were opened across Scotland and Farmfoods as we know it was formed. |
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[[Image:Cadoux MapofHistoricSites IzmirTurkey.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Map showing the northeastern location of Mount Yamanlar in the inner Gulf of İzmir]] |
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The mountain is an extinct [[volcano]]. Although it is geologically separate from the neighboring mass of the [[Mount Sipylus]] (''Spil Dağı''), their flora, fauna and history have very much in common, and the two mountains have sometimes been viewed as extensions of each other. |
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Mount Yamanlar was the location of the first recorded settlement which controlled the Gulf of İzmir circa [[1440]] BC, founded by [[Tantalus]] and possibly named "Naulochon", deriving its wealth from the mines of the region. |
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On the steep southeastern slopes of the mountain, in the neighborhood called [[Bayraklı]] and which also depends Karşıyaka, there is a "Tomb of Tantalus" dating from this very early period in [[Anatolia|Anatolian]] history. This tomb was explored by [[Félix Marie Charles Texier|Charles Texier]] in 1835, while another school places Tantalus's tomb to another monument found on Mount Sipylus. The first location of [[Smyrna]] (''Old Smyrna'') was also at the foot of Mount Yamanlar on what was at the time a small peninsula. |
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=== Acquisitions & Growth === |
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Farmfoods operated 31 stores in 1988 and gained initial entry into England through the acquisition of 18 stores from [[Wallis Frozen Foods]]. |
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The same Bayraklı slopes was also where [[landslide]]s caused by [[flash floods]] that had occurred on 3-[[4 November]] [[1995]] had claimed at least 61 lives in the [[slum]]-type residences that had mushroomed at the time in the area, and had caused material damage exceeding 50 million US Dollars <ref> {{cite web|title = Analysis of Meteorological and Terrain Features Leading to the Izmir Flash Flood, 3–4 November 1995| url = http://www.springerlink.com/content/g53572758t67l581|author = Ali Mümran Kömüşçü| publisher = Natural Hazards, [[Springer Netherlands]], Volume 18, Number I|date=1998-07|language=English}}</ref>. Incidents of a similar nature occurred also in autumn 2001 adding five more casualties to İzmir's toll of disaster victims. A better planned and managed urbanization along the silted slopes of the mountain, by preserving its historic heritage at the same time, is an ongoing concern for the city as a whole. |
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In the early 90s, Farmfoods expanded further with the acquisition of the [[Capital Freezer Centres]] chain. |
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==Footnotes== |
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As of April 2005, Farmfoods operates more than 300 specialist freezer centres stretching from Invergordon in the North of [[Scotland]] to Dover in the South East of [[England]]. |
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==Resources== |
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Farmfoods stores are typically located in [[city centre|city and town centres]], more-often-than-not in stand-alone units complete with dedicated parking, however occasionally stores are located in [[shopping centre]]s. However, recently Farmfoods have started to focus on opening stores near the edge of towns, where they have their own larger car parks and are able to open for longer periods. |
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* {{cite web | title = Landslide, Earthquake & Flood Hazard Risks of Izmir Metropolitan City, A Case: Altindag Landslide Areas | url = http://www.waset.org/pwaset/v17/v17-53.pdf| author = Ahmet Kıvanç Kutluca, Semahat Özdemir| publisher = Proceedings of [http://www.waset.org WASET] (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology), Volume 17| date= 2006-12-17 | language=English}} |
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==Books== |
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* {{cite book|title = Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empire ISBN 0710307764|author=[[Ekrem Akurgal]]|publisher=[[Kegan Paul]]|year= 2002|language=English}} |
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* {{cite book|title = Ancient Smyrna: A History of the City from the Earliest Times to 324 A.D.| |author=Cecil John Cadoux|publisher=[[Blackwell Publishing]]|year=1938|language=English}} |
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* {{cite book|title = Aegean Turkey: An archaeological guide ISBN 978-0510032005|author=George E. Bean|publisher=Ernest Benn, [[London]]|year=1967|language=English}} |
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{{Townships of Karşıyaka District}} |
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==Store Formats & Trading Style== |
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[[Image:StoreFront.png|thumb|220px|Typical Modern Farmfoods Store]] |
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Generally, stores are in the form of aisles with waist-height freezer cabinets running along each side and shelving above most freezers. Popular items, such as soft drinks and canned foods are often placed in the middle of aisles (atop plastic [[plinths]] to protect goods from damage) in a "stack it high, sell it cheap" format |
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There are many exceptions to this generalisation as all stores are unique. Some stores have sections with full height shelving. These house groups of products such as pet food or the ever-growing selection of toiletry and other household items. In the past the design of each shop had been tailored to the general layout of the store. Since many of the older stores were not built to be freezer centres they are often too small and awkwardly shaped making them hard to traverse. Recently the company has developed a standard wheelchair friendly layout which all the new and much larger stores, such as Cumbernauld, Cambuslang and Coatbridge, all conform to. Older stores were recently adapted and had their previous layouts altered to make movement around the stores easier and more pleasant. |
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In 2005 Farmfoods changed the maximum height of shelving in all of its stores. This was a reaction to a number of staff-related accidents relating to staff either falling off cabinets or falling through the glass lids while attempting to stock the higher shelves. This time a poster was placed on all staff notice boards highlighting the dangers of standing on freezer lids and stating this practice was strictly forbidden by the business. |
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Smaller stores tend to have two-four checkouts with space for a customer to place a basket onto the checkout for the cashier to access as they [[Barcode|scan]] each item. The company is currently installing conveyor belt driven checkout areas in larger stores. These provide considerably more space to place scanned items and allow the checkout experience to be more streamlined for customers with trolleys as they are not required to lift shopping to the checkout as they are served. All new stores opened by the company as of autumn 2007 have these new checkouts. |
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Farmfoods stores typically have a small staff base (to ensure costs are kept low) and a large number of regular shoppers. The company caters to a wide variety of customers, especially older-folk and families with young children. All items are individually priced, and many have a multi-buy price (for example, 30p or 4 for £1) and other such offers like buy one get ones frees. |
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==Grocery Items== |
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Although the company initially and still focuses on providing top quality frozen food it has developed a large range of grocery items in recent years. The grocery range originally consisted of only Farmfoods branded items but recently there has been a shift towards selling a large number of items from well-known brands such as [[H. J. Heinz Company]] and [[Princes (company)|Princes]], with most of Farmfoods' own lines becoming value brands in their own right. |
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==Litigation== |
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[[Image:StoreFront.png|thumb|220px|Typical Modern Farmfoods Store]] |
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In March 2007, Farmfoods was fined circa £23,000 after being found guilty of selling food that was unfit for human consumption. This was a result of a mice infestation at its Kirkby store and led to a company wide initiative to deep clean all the stores especially behind cabinets and in back shop areas. This initial drive was fully completed by the business in around a month of the story in March 2007. Following this it's rigidly adhered to across all stores in the chain.<ref name="knowsley">[http://aboutknowsley.typepad.com/news/2007/03/mice_infestatio.html "Mice infestation costs Farmfoods store more than £23,000"], Knowsley Online. Article dated [[2007-03-09]], retrieved [[2007-03-26]].</ref> |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.farmfoods.co.uk Farmfoods Homepage] |
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*[http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack2002/migration/dbDetails.asp?siteID=5&compID=217&yr=2007 Top Track 250 details] |
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Revision as of 19:53, 10 October 2008
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Yamanlar is the name of a small village and a historically significant mountain (Yamanlar Dağı) near İzmir, Turkey. Both the village and the mountain are located within the boundaries of the Greater Metropolitan Area of İzmir and administratively depend İzmir's metropolitan district of Karşıyaka.
The village is at a distance of 20 km from Karşıyaka center and it is along the road to the summit of Mount Yamanlar.
A crater lake called "Karagöl" (meaning "Black Lake" in Turkish) is found at the summit, as well as amenities for visitors, and it commands an impressive view of the Gulf of İzmir from the northeast.
Since it is relatively close to the city and easy to access, Yamanlar is a popular excursion spot for İzmir's inhabitants. It is served by a good road, which is nevertheless a steep climb.
Mountain
The mountain is an extinct volcano. Although it is geologically separate from the neighboring mass of the Mount Sipylus (Spil Dağı), their flora, fauna and history have very much in common, and the two mountains have sometimes been viewed as extensions of each other.
Mount Yamanlar was the location of the first recorded settlement which controlled the Gulf of İzmir circa 1440 BC, founded by Tantalus and possibly named "Naulochon", deriving its wealth from the mines of the region.
On the steep southeastern slopes of the mountain, in the neighborhood called Bayraklı and which also depends Karşıyaka, there is a "Tomb of Tantalus" dating from this very early period in Anatolian history. This tomb was explored by Charles Texier in 1835, while another school places Tantalus's tomb to another monument found on Mount Sipylus. The first location of Smyrna (Old Smyrna) was also at the foot of Mount Yamanlar on what was at the time a small peninsula.
The same Bayraklı slopes was also where landslides caused by flash floods that had occurred on 3-4 November 1995 had claimed at least 61 lives in the slum-type residences that had mushroomed at the time in the area, and had caused material damage exceeding 50 million US Dollars [1]. Incidents of a similar nature occurred also in autumn 2001 adding five more casualties to İzmir's toll of disaster victims. A better planned and managed urbanization along the silted slopes of the mountain, by preserving its historic heritage at the same time, is an ongoing concern for the city as a whole.
Footnotes
- ^ Ali Mümran Kömüşçü (1998-07). "Analysis of Meteorological and Terrain Features Leading to the Izmir Flash Flood, 3–4 November 1995". Natural Hazards, Springer Netherlands, Volume 18, Number I.
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Resources
- Ahmet Kıvanç Kutluca, Semahat Özdemir (2006-12-17). "Landslide, Earthquake & Flood Hazard Risks of Izmir Metropolitan City, A Case: Altindag Landslide Areas" (PDF). Proceedings of WASET (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology), Volume 17.
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Books
- Ekrem Akurgal (2002). Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empire ISBN 0710307764. Kegan Paul.
- Cecil John Cadoux (1938). Ancient Smyrna: A History of the City from the Earliest Times to 324 A.D. Blackwell Publishing.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - George E. Bean (1967). Aegean Turkey: An archaeological guide ISBN 978-0510032005. Ernest Benn, London.