All Industry Insight articles – Page 39
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Comment & OpinionHow anti-obesity medicines are hitting fmcg shares
With rising numbers of patients on these medications, volume growth particularly for less healthy food and alcohol sub-sectors could be impacted, says Warren Ackerman, head of European consumer staples research at Barclays
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: Whitebox Cocktails’ Ben Iravani on Tupac and brutal honesty
‘There needs to be more support for up and coming brands that can show traction. The big boys always dominate financially which makes it very hard to get seen’
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Comment & OpinionWhy grocery assets are an active sector for investment
The continued optimism from the leading grocery brands is driving a welcome uptick in investment volumes, says Martin Supple, head of out of town retail at CBRE
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Rahul Vora, senior brand manager, Jacobs Douwe Egberts
Rahul talks about his journey from applying on LinkedIn to having ’an impact on a global level’ at coffee powerhouse JDE
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Promotional FeaturesOvercome pricing and promotional forecasting challenges
For CPG brand suppliers, presenting retail partners with new pricing and promotional strategies can be complex. In this article, dunnhumby’s head of insight sales Moray Duncan reveals how to tackle key forecasting challenges.
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Comment & OpinionConsumer businesses can no longer ‘extend and pretend’
There is no place to hide for propositions that are failing to gain consumer traction quickly, says Chan Chan Wang, director in Consumer, Food & Retail, Houlihan Lokey
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Tesco make a marketplace work second time around?
With lessons learned since the failure of Tesco Direct – and the model better proven – should the likes of Amazon and Ocado be worried?
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: The Flower Farm’s Marcel van Wing on palm oil and family
‘I lived in Indonesia and saw with my own eyes the damage to the rainforest for palm oil’
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Comment & OpinionFour ways your company can better invest in its people
If we mean it about people being our most important asset, we have to keep them at the top of our minds, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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ProfilesMy food and drink job: Louisa Dodd, sustainability manager, Little Moons
‘Raymond Blanc once made me eat compost from his garden at Le Manoir, which was pretty disgusting but I’m sure very nutritious as freebies go’
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: Re:Nourish’s Nicci Clark on soup and spiders
‘Things never ever go to plan so always be prepared to adapt’
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Comment & OpinionIt’s time we fully understood the impact of media investment
To improve media effectiveness, we need a greater appreciation of long-term over short-term tactics, says Florian Clemens, VP of media and analytics EMEA at Circana
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Kristian Sharp, foodservice channel manager, Weetabix
’Growing up only 10 minutes away from the Weetabix factory as a child, I could always remember that delicious smell wafting across the garden’
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Comment & OpinionRetail media desperately needs consistent standards
Transparency and greater measurement are key to ensuring continued growth in retail media, says Sean Crawford, MD, Threefold North America
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: Rowcliffe’s Sunit Mehta on cheese, quality and the M25
‘My friends jokingly call me ‘Cheesus’ as I often provide a good spread of cheese for social events’
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Emma Detain, sustainability manager, Mindful Chef
Sustainability manager Emma talks all things B Corp, career progression and food’s carbon footprint
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ProfilesMy Alternative CV: VFC’s Adam Lyons on racing, heights and chicken lives saved
‘We have a chicken life saved counter on our website. If I am ever having a bad day and feeling a little overwhelmed I just look at that’
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Comment & OpinionHow to market low & no-alcohol to gen Z
For gen Z, the shift in drinking habits is symptomatic of more fundamental shifts in their values, says Rowenna Prest, chief strategy officer at Joint
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Emily Morgan, product & customer experience manager, CafePod
’It would be amazing to run my own brand one day where I can develop a product that consumers can’t live without!’