Wal-Mart’s Blind And Costly Focus On FOB’s
Our piece, Flaws In Wal-Mart’s Produce-Procurement Thinking, brought a number of interesting responses. For example, a prominent retail produce executive made this comment: As per normal, great article and insight on Wal-Mart Procurement. We experienced this same confused logic prior to our split with the Mother ship. When folks with little industry experience are making […]
Restaurant Nutrition-Labeling Regulations Proposed In Health Care Bills
One of the frustrations we have with the legislative process is the lack of transparency. Few laws are so urgent that they must be passed before anyone has had the time to read them. Just as a matter of process, we would support a law prohibiting a congressional vote on any legislation that has not […]
How Data Will Drive
Future Brand Marketing
The other day we ran a piece titled, The Power Of Retail Data, which was based on an article in The New York Times titled, A Data Explosion Remakes Retailing. Our focus in the piece was on retailer’s collection and use of data to sell more. The article, though, also dealt with various consumer tools […]
PMA FIT’s Leadership Symposium Brings Talent And Education To Dallas
Each year, in addition to the regular attendees who participate in PMA FIT’s Leadership Symposium, a few special attendees also take part in the event due to special scholarship arrangements. Last year, for the first time, The Tip Murphy Scholarship for Leadership Excellence presented its scholarship to Michael Engeman of La Manna Group Australia, and […]
Supervalu Cuts Corporate Produce Staff
And Turns To W. Newell
For Future Produce Procurement
First word started percolating around the industry that there had been many pink slips handed out to employees working in Corporate Produce at Supervalu. It seemed to be almost everyone from Scott Morris, Corporate VP–Produce/Floral at SuperValu on down. Then the announcement went out to vendors: Subject: SUPERVALU to relocate enterprise produce/floral merchandising functions to […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Early Sales Numbers For Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Hard To Find
We recently received this letter from an astute observer of the industry: We read your report on Fresh & Easy’s results for the first half of their 09/10 FY. Since you are the foremost leading authority on Tesco in the US, we were hoping you might have sales numbers for the first 5 months they […]
Business Expert David Nour
Speaks At Leadership Symposium
Each year, the PMA FIT Leadership Symposium — presented in partnership with Cornell University — provides the industry with a unique form of leadership development. The program brings experts who are not experts in the produce industry together to stimulate the intellectual juices. This is very important because otherwise the industry stays in its internal […]
The Power Of Retail Data
The New York Times had an interesting piece titled A Data Explosion Remakes Retailing. The gist of it was that retailers are now collecting all kinds of information about shoppers and shopping patterns and utilizing this information to sell more: Retailing is emerging as a real-world incubator for testing how computer firepower and smart software […]
Warning To Family Businesses: Death Tax Rears Its Ugly Head One Year From Now
The estate tax has expired. Barring a change in the law, however, it will come back with a vengeance on January 1, 2011. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece, Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man, about the machinations some people went through to make it into 2010: To make it easier on […]
White House Super Chef Battle
Inspires Dreams Of Broccoli Chowder
We just ran a piece, Arugula Shines At White House Dinner, that focused on the use of items grown in the White House Garden at the first State Dinner honoring the Prime Minister of India. Now the Food Network presented a Super Chef Battle that was built around fall veggies from the White House garden […]
