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January 2007

Performance-based logistics allowances can unlock potential savings for manufacturers and retailers alike.

February 2003

A wholesale shift in European groceries

European grocers could satisfy their appetite for growth—if they knew where to look.
February 2000

Making a meal of Europe’s food-and-drink business

Consolidation could create more than $100 billion in net present value in the fragmented European food-and-drink industry-and that makes restructuring almost inevitable.
May 1997

Packaged goods: It’s time to focus on product development

The best performers organize around four separate development missions. New products and line extensions require different processes and different performance metrics. A common mistake: not setting priorities across product groups.
February 1997

India’s sleeping giant: Food

Producers should worry less about elite consumers; As Indians’ purchasing power increases, they will demand quality in basic foods; An integrated response can transform the huge inefficiencies into opportunities

November 1996

Satisfying America’s changing appetite

Virtually all of the $100 billion increase in annual food sales expected in the United States in the next decade is likely to come from food service. To take advantage of this dramatic shift in eating habits, restaurant operators, packaged-food manufacturers, and the entire US food distribution system will have to make significant changes.