Reports
Monday 9th January 2012
Marrying the dragon
In recent years, China has played a greater and greater role in the cross-border merger and acquisition market. Outbound M&A activities have been accelerating...
Wednesday 4th January 2012
Moving into the fast lane
The B2B Services sector is a huge and profitable market, but poorly understood, and typically given much less attention than more mature consumer-facing industries....
Monday 2nd January 2012
Winning strategies for a smooth ride
There are growing concerns that the once sizzling Indian economy is cooling off. With the rainfall playing truant and industrial growth slowing down, both...
Tuesday 20th December 2011
Pricing for profit
Companies tend to set their prices too low in the business-to-business market. Regardless of pricing policy, some customers end up paying a price...
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Game on!
The online gaming industry is undergoing a period of rapid investment, expansion and innovation. In the last few years, investment and usage has shifted...
Tuesday 8th November 2011
The good, the bad, and the ugly
The Christmas trading period this year may not have been a total wipeout, but it was a big disappointment for many retailers. And the...
Thursday 6th October 2011
The fog is lifting
For decades, customer service has been poorly understood – an afterthought to the proposition, a cost to be managed, or worse a series of...
Friday 2nd September 2011
Size isn't everything
Whilst all good competitive strategy can be traced back to first principles, you may think that reaching back to biblical times is a step...
Monday 20th June 2011
Land of the giants
The fight for survival rages on in food & drink. And this year’s OC&C Top 150 reveals that the UK’s biggest manufacturers are standing...
Wednesday 11th May 2011
New frontiers
As growth slows in the ‘Old West’, global suppliers are venturing into new territories. But they are facing stiff competition from domestic players...
Wednesday 27th April 2011
Opportunity knocks
For many years, the education sector has been poorly understood, captured as a subset of business services or the media sector. Education does however...
Thursday 10th March 2011
Weathering the storm
It is clear to all of us that our great industry is moving through tumultuous times. A deep recession is being followed by a...
Thursday 3rd February 2011
Big pie bigger bite
A bigger bite is what every FMCG company should attempt to get of the growing pie of demand this year. But not all firms...
Sunday 2nd January 2011
Cause for celebration?
To their relief, most retailers pulled off a good Christmas after a fraught year. As the festive trading season nears its end, Lisa Berwin...
Friday 10th December 2010
Consolidation prize
B2C Services is big business – around £80bn in the UK alone – but in contrast to retail, most B2C services markets are highly...
Saturday 7th August 2010