Buying and supplying insight and analysis – Page 3
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Comment & OpinionIs Kate Moss really the best partner for Diet Coke in the ‘body positive’ era?
The model has previously faced backlash for saying “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”
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Comment & Opinion
Why do buyers keep crucial knowledge from challenger brands instead of collaborating?
We must work together to get through this incredibly challenging period, says Thea Alexander, founder & CEO of Young Foodies
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Comment & Opinion
GSCOP compliance has plummeted. Retailers must change their priorities
The dichotomy we see between supplier cost increases and retailer price drops is not sustainable, says Ged Futter, director at The Retail Mind
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Comment & Opinion
Can CBD businesses mount a legal challenge against the FSA?
Many CBD companies remain unhappy with the way the FSA is conducting itself in the novel foods process, says Nicholas Earles, COO, Foodtech Compliance
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Comment & Opinion
Business leaders need courage and decisiveness to deal with grocery’s interesting times
We are in for a summer characterised by strong demand, says David Milner, CEO of St Pierre Groupe
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Comment & Opinion
Retailer delay tactics on cost price increases are crippling for smaller suppliers
Needless and complex delay tactics by retailers mean necessary CPI processes grind to a halt, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & Opinion
How AHDB is putting levy payers at the heart of its new mission
The ‘new’ AHDB will be more outward-looking, more opinionated and quicker-moving, says Tim Rycroft, CEO of AHDB
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Analysis & Features
Seven of the most impactful grocery PR stunts of 2021
They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. For reasons both good and bad, these brands made headlines with some particularly bold PR stunts this year. Here’s our pick of the most effective ones from 2021
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Analysis & Features
The most bizarre NPD to roll out in 2021
We’re not sure what product development teams were drinking this year, but we want some. Retailers might have spent much of the year slimming ranges to prioritise supply, but supply chain chaos couldn’t stop brands coming out with an array of weird and wonderful launches – some of which were ...
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Comment & Opinion
It’s blink murder out there in the cost price increase standoff
A staring competition with Aldi is particularly tricky
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Analysis & Features
Aggressive but inexperienced: perils of the new breed of supermarket buyers
The new cohort of UK supermarket buyers are young, inexperienced and verging on confrontational, according to YouGov data from suppliers. So what’s really going on – and is youth always a bad thing?
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Comment & Opinion
How to prevent fractured messaging and create a single ‘brand truth’
Consumers are increasingly taken aback by weird, inconsistent and confusing marketing messages from their favourite brands, says Sid McGrath of Wunderman Thompson
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Comment & Opinion
How to ensure cultural integrity when launching a new food or drink product
Rich Ford, strategy director at Sherlock Studio, offers five things to consider when developing products and branding
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Analysis & Features
Which food and drink brands came out top with consumers in 2021?
It’s not been an easy year for British food and drink brands. But some have still managed to impress consumers, according to YouGov’s 2021 UK Fmcg Rankings
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Comment & Opinion
Fight the instinct to cut and run when problems emerge in the supply chain
Buyers should stick with their industry partners to help them resolve their issues, says Mike Coppen-Gardner, MD at SPQR Communications
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Comment & Opinion
Prompt Payment Code policy changes are having unforeseen consequences
As Tesco resigns, and Unilever and Diageo face expulsion, PPC has the right intentions but not always the right outcomes
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Comment & Opinion
How suppliers can navigate the thorny issue of cost price increases with demanding retailers
Retailers are demanding commercially sensitive information from suppliers – GSCOP needs to catch up, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & Opinion
Inflation: how grocery sector should prepare as pressure ramps up
Shoppers will notice their bill increasing and will start to stop and think a bit more about value, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Analysis & Features
Brexit border checks: the five areas of most concern
What with the driver shortages, the ‘pingdemic’ and summer holidays, it would be easy to forget that in fewer than 50 days, border controls will begin for food and drink arriving in Great Britain from Europe
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Comment & Opinion
New taxes on food will impact producers at the bottom of the supply chain
Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy seems to ignore the dynamics of grocery pricing, says Mark Lumsdon-Taylor, chair of the Rural Policy Group
