The business of producing food has never been a piece of cake (apart from growing cress on a damp kitchen towel), particularly for farmers. It’s extraordinarily challenging when tragic wars are bringing upward pressure on the costs and even availability…
Farmers are often grumpy. It’s the unpredictable elements of their business such as tussling with the vagaries of the weather, market prices, awkward customers and regulators, and coping with the peccadillos of their neighbours and wayward countryside visitors. But, right now, they’re angry even…
The USA is a Big Beast in geographic size, population and economic and political clout. Back in 2020, spurred by the Conservative Government’s desire to be seen as a nimble, swashbuckling free trader unencumbered by sclerotic EU bureaucracy, negotiations were…
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just released its 2024 Global Risks Report for business. They canvass the views of businesses and relevant institutions around the world to come up with their shorter- and longer-term business risk league tables. Not…
If you’re interested in the global agrifood industry, then, it’s useful to keep tabs on what Nestlé is up to! At $93bn (2019), its annual sales make it far and away the biggest food & drink company in the world…
Thanks to all of you for your interest in our new Weekly Food Business Insights but, particularly, for those who have registered! If you haven’t had the time to peek at “the product”, we’ve posted a previous week’s Insights to…
Hi and thanks for taking a peek at our blog over the past few years. We hope you’ve been both entertained and informed with our notes about developments in food and grocery markets. Covid-19 will continue to transform the nature…
We don’t usually reach for a quote from Lenin to kick-off a blog but, in a pensive moment, Vladimir Ilyich mused “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. Ten weeks of lockdown, with travel…
Well, what a to-do! Just as the nation achingly comes to terms with Brexit, we’re sand-bagged with COVID-19. Bugger! But, on the brighter side, our viral tribulations, apparently, are evoking the cooperative, all pulling together spirit of The War Years…
Big food companies haven’t been cracking open the champagne in recent years – in developed markets, sales have been in free-fall, with fast-growing emerging markets saving the day but, still, the overall sales trend has been ominously downwards, and this…
Supermarkets in your pocket. 