Marketing strategies for maximising of profits among large transhumant stockbreeders in Castile in the xvi century

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  • Máximo Diago Hernando

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2013.05.003

Keywords:

Castile, Sixteenth century, Transhumant stockbreeding, Wool trade, N530

Abstract

A contribution to the study of the organization of the wool trade in the Crown of Castile during the Modern Age is presented, focusing on the case of the region of Soria during the sixteenth century, and on the group of the large transhumant stockbreeders. The author identifies the main characteristics of the strategies put into practice by the members of this group in order to sell their wools: Prolonged deferment of payment by the merchant buyers, and storage of wool for several years in order to accumulate a larger quantity. It shows that this strategy allowed them to obtain higher prices for their merchandise, that the merchants were sometimes denounced as usurious. The high prices obtained also generated uneasiness among the stockbreeders, who feared they might have committed the sin of usury.

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Diago Hernando, M. (2019). Marketing strategies for maximising of profits among large transhumant stockbreeders in Castile in the xvi century. Investigaciones De Historia Económica, 10(1), 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2013.05.003

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