Reports
Friday 16th November 2018
Journey to the centre
Some international media businesses are shifting senior management and front-office roles away from London and back to their central HQs – and Brexit is...
Tuesday 30th October 2018
On the edge
With inflation in raw materials and rising labour costs squeezing margins, the anticipatory impact of Brexit is already being felt large across the UK...
Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Bridging the trust gap
After a three-year slowdown in 2013-2015, the China luxury market is back on a solid growth trajectory
Friday 19th October 2018
The first rule of disruption
At the annual OC&C and Financo Retail CEO Forum, we heard first-hand how retail sector 'disruptors' think about the changing shape of the industry
Monday 3rd September 2018
Placing the right bets
Retailers have a variety of levers at their disposal to drive commercial performance – from price and promotions to range and space
Tuesday 31st July 2018
Making every purchase count
Analytics helps us answer a retailer’s toughest questions, especially when multiple factors – such as price, SKU mix, and promotions – have to be...
Thursday 19th July 2018
Action stations
The Global 50 report is our annual snapshot of the world’s 50 largest CPG businesses
Monday 25th June 2018
Putting analytics to work
Big Data and Advanced Analytics have been 'hot' topics for some time now. It has become clear that the most successful companies spend more...
Monday 5th March 2018
The talking shop
Rapid consumer adoption of smart speakers, combined with a growing tendency to use such devices for shopping, suggests that voice commerce (voice-based eCommerce) will...
Wednesday 28th February 2018
Partnering to win in retail’s digital age
For the last three years we have been living in the era of M-commerce: smartphones now represent over 50% of all online retail transactions...
Sunday 18th February 2018
Is content king after all?
With the next wave of platform-based digital disruption imminent for the media industry, we examine the pattern of platform insurgence, the likely impacts on brands...
Friday 15th December 2017
Testing Times – TIC 101 Index 2017
In our last review of the TIC sector (which we called TIC-TOCK), we identified several emerging trends, such as the superiority of focus over...
Monday 27th November 2017
Ringing the changes
As the UK retail industry plots its path through an uncertain trading environment, the battle for supremacy has never been more intense
Monday 20th November 2017
Ice and a city slice
Looking more closely at how you segment individual cities into codes, tribes and neighbourhoods opens up new avenues for growth
Friday 29th September 2017
Tied up
In 2016 FMCG M&A plummeted, down $176bn on the previous year, as political uncertainty depressed deal-making in the sector
Thursday 28th September 2017