Given that the greatest casualty of Lockdown was trust in everything, consumers who have survived the trauma have emerged savvy and are putting their...

Retailers sit between the economic forces of supply and demand. Profit is found in the balance between the pull of customers’ needs and the...

Heading into the fifth year (!) since Lockdown, in a flat-demand market (everywhere), those companies still standing have survived by managing to grow at...

Cocoa prices have risen 207% over the last year (to 5 June 24), with the vast majority of increases being in the last five...

By Hugh Stevens, UK MD of LiveRamp With the cost of living crisis continuing to impact customer confidence, targeting those with a propensity to spend...

by Katy Gallagher, Director and Head of Consumer Products at 4C Associates The consumer products industry is navigating the fallout of major international events such...

The 2008 Global Financial Crisis was meant to be the ‘crisis to end all crises’. Unfortunately, few lessons were learned, and by 2020, despite...

Success in business in unprecedented times means being able to accept the realities of the ‘here & now’ and going back to basics while...

Latest available UK accounts for Aldi and Lidl show that each is operating at near breakeven . Given the discounters are each part of...

Peter Schriddels, Category Development at McBride, a leading manufacturer of private label household products, discusses product compaction and why it’s important that manufacturers continue...