It’s Winter 2030 and shrivelled, desiccated traditional supermarket companies fall like Autumn leaves from the NYSE and LSEs of our world. In only a dozen years, grocery shopping has disappeared as a drudge activity. We still shop but on our…
It’s Winter 2030 and shrivelled, desiccated traditional supermarket companies fall like Autumn leaves from the NYSE and LSEs of our world. In only a dozen years, grocery shopping has disappeared as a drudge activity. We still shop but on our…
Do you know that close to half of all eating occasions in the UK and the USA comprise one person eating alone – a morose male tucking into a “Sad Bastard Ready Meal for One” comes to mind. But, that’s…
Warm, woozy weather and we’ve been saturated with Wimbledon, Lions, cricket and more. Pass the Pimm’s, please! But, global food industry developments have had their moments, too and not least Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods Market. We chuckled no doubt…
It’s not so much a point of principle, more one of maintaining standards, but we simply won’t countenance eating a bacon sandwich unless the pig concerned has been privately educated. Needless-to-say, that’s why we plump for Waitrose 1 Free Range,…
Twenty years ago, the share price of fledgling Amazon.Com was $1.49 and over the next 10 years the company burned money ferociously, made no profits and the share price moved slowly up to $68. Clearly, some investors believed in the…
Have you noticed that the food industry’s “Old Guard” – meat, milk and wheat products – have been taking a good bashing in recent years? Swathes of consumers eschew these nutritional staples because of: perceived food intolerances (e.g. gluten, lactose);…
Dairy giant Danone has announced this week that it’s cutting €1 billion in costs over the next 3 years as business conditions are tough. Where? …. err everywhere, including fast-growing emerging mega-markets like China. Danone is not alone – in…
