Mar 17, 2023 La France doit-elle anticiper un « mur de l’inflation » ce printemps ? By Olivier Salomon La France viendra-t-elle à bout des hausses de prix dans la grande distribution ? Le ministre de l’Economie Bruno Le Maire a annoncé le 6...
Jan 25, 2023 Consumer Products Corner – Consumer Pulse: Will the rising debt-to-income ratio rattle consumer demand? By Randy Burt Brett Meyer Ben Roers Chieh Yin +1 more... Show less Consumer Pulse, from AlixPartners' Consumer Products Corner newsletter, offers a monthly snapshot of data, insight, and opinion from our...
Jan 23, 2023 The $6.5 billion margin challenge in consumer products By Read DuPriest Patrick Houston Bernardo Silva Brett Meyer Jack Donahue Ryan Marek +3 more... Show less Consumer products (CP) companies have been on a roller-coaster ride since the beginning of the pandemic. The latest post-pandemic twist...
Jan 11, 2023 As commodity markets shift, retailers should move to the offensive with suppliers By Young Hu Amit Mahajan Clark Riess With the world continuing to experience major disruption via ongoing war and an unsettled economy, there is an opportunity for retailers...
Dec 21, 2022 Consumer Products Corner – Supply Chain Check-Up By Randy Burt Brett Meyer Ben Roers Supply Chain Check-Up, from AlixPartners' Consumer Products Corner newsletter, offers a monthly snapshot of data, insight, and opinion...
Nov 29, 2022 Consumer Products Corner – Financial Fitness By Randy Burt Ben Roers Michelle Diem Brett Meyer +1 more... Show less Financial Fitness, from AlixPartners' Consumer Products Corner newsletter, offers a monthly snapshot of data, insight, and opinion from...
Oct 19, 2022 How CP companies can proactively drive sustainable packaging transformation By Emily Halperin Fei Rong Libra Balian Packaging can play a surprisingly large role in the sustainability equation for consumer product (CP) companies, affecting everything...
Aug 25, 2022 Are you a product-centric company? Should you be? By William Oellermann Many businesses that do not start out as product companies realize they should consider becoming product-centric. Some may decide to...
Aug 25, 2022 Being ‘user-centric’ is not enough By Ross Engelhardt Product executives have a lot to focus on – business outcomes, user satisfaction, partnering with engineering, and influencing...
Aug 01, 2022 As costs inflate, it’s time to pay attention to what hasn’t been a priority: utilities By Mitchell Collens Harrison Pappas Rob Sterner In today’s world, there isn’t a shortage of conversation on rising costs, inflation, unreliable supply chains, and ESG. Whether it is in...
Jul 18, 2022 Delivering on demand: How many days is too many? By Chris Considine Bryan Eshelman Marc Iampieri Raj Konanahalli Brian Nemeth +2 more... Show less As e-commerce became ubiquitous over the last few years, consumers consistently kept lowering what they considered an acceptable delivery...
Jun 13, 2022 Net Zero challenge: Consumer products companies need a supply chain plan By Randy Burt Anna Del Mar Emily Halperin Andy Searle +1 more... Show less Getting to net zero is an imperative for the food and beverage (F&B) industry, which is responsible for approximately one third of global...
Jun 02, 2022 Attention, CPG manufacturers! Gen-Z shoppers won’t have anything less than true sustainability By Bhavik Mistry The world’s youngest consumers are placing heightened pressure on organizations to make their supply chains sustainable – from the raw...
May 24, 2022 "New Normal" – kommt das stationäre Geschäft zurück? By Nicolas Weingaertner Thomas Biehler Mit der Aufhebung von Corona-Maßnahmen stehen Handelsunternehmen vor dem lange beschworenen „New Normal“ und der Herausforderung, sich...
May 11, 2022 Revising the recipe for success – how to rise to the top in the highly disrupted bread sector By Azeem Ahmed The fact that Ukraine and Russia exports more than 25% of the world’s wheat is more than enough to demonstrate the extreme disruption...
Mar 15, 2022 How to protect and grow margins in a disrupted environment By Emily Halperin Josh Hubbard For good reason, inflation and global supply chain issues have dominated the corporate agenda in recent months. Yet while CEOs currently...