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Winning that all important 1st purchase
Byron Sharp’s well proven law of growth, that both brands and categories grow primarily as a result of penetration gains and not as much via frequency or AWP as previously...
Getting the right promotional mix
With the majority of the Food and Drink category values being at best flat and often actually in decline, it’s all too easy for manufacturers to throw badly-aimed monies at...
Are you a consumer-led business?
Delivering your growth agenda: Marketing’s critical role In our first post we said that a growth agenda lives and dies by the strength of its under-pinning cross-functional strategies. In this...
Extreme reactions or are some suppliers not facing the truth?
When Sainsbury’s recently announced its strategy to address losses to the discounters, the reactions from some suppliers were extreme. On the news that it was assessing both the ‘emotional’ and...
Innovation versus the Core
The role and benefits of innovation in a category has been a roller coaster journey for many suppliers and retailers. In light of CV19, the question of ‘to go ahead...
