What makes a good consultant?
With the market saturated with old school consultancies, we were keen to discover what makes Pollen a point of difference; we asked our clients what made them engage with us and what they believe makes a good consultant stand out from the pack...
reinventing the performance review
We knew there must be a better way to review performance in a simple but exhaustive manner; after months of research and development, we are proud to introduce the Business Analytics Dashboard…
Price has never been so elastic
How can technology be used to tackle food wastage and maximise supply chain efficiency in the retail sector? We shared our thoughts with Inside FMCG...
Meal kit fit
To get ahead of the competition, retailers will need to adopt and adjust to new ways of meeting customer needs.
Beating the Amazonians
The two biggest challenges to the Australian FMCG industry are the arrival of Amazon and changing customer behaviours - each one fuelling the other. And if the incumbent retailers continue to sit on their hands, new entrants to Australia will be breeding more Amazonians as they go.
It is time to leapfrog the world and put Australia at the front of the pack
It is our vision that together with our clients we can step change the food and beverage sector, moving from a sector that lags to one that leads on innovation across the entire value chain.
A matter of just in time
FMCG has much it can learn from the efficiencies and cost savings of vendor-managed inventories.
Sandbox for the globe
Could Australia be the sandbox for the globe with overseas companies coming here to play and innovate. Oliver North most certainly thinks so it his article publish in the InsideFMCG Towards 2020 report.
What Aldi can learn
German supermarket chain Aldi is making a push into China leveraging Australian products on an e-commerce platform, aiming to take advantage of the rapid expansion of the Chinese middle class.
It was beaten to the gun by Australian supermarket giant Woolworths, which launched an online store there in January, on Tmall Global, the overseas platform of Alibaba Group’s B2C business.
Following the Brits – with our eyes wide open
British supermarket giant Tesco announced it is to buy wholesaler Booker for £3.7bn, claiming it will create “the UK’s leading food business”.
For years, Australian supermarkets have recruited Brits, closely following the latest trends in from Blighty. So what does the latest move in the UK mean for the Australian industry?
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