PMA FIT Awards 1st Tip Murphy Scholarship: Michael Engeman
Of LaManna In Australia To Attend Leadership Symposium
We memorialized the passing of industry veteran Tip Murphy with a piece entitled, Tribute to Tip Murphy, and friends of Tip got together with the PMA Foundation for Industry Talent and formed a committee: Tip served on the board of directors of PMA from 2005 to 2007 and the PMA Foundation for Industry Talent established […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
The ‘Culture’ Of Wal-Mart
In our piece — Can Whole Foods Survive Prolonged Economic Downturn? — we raised the issue of how Whole Foods could deal with a predictable cash squeeze, and we layed out several options. As it happens, the company decided to bring in an investor, as we explained in a piece entitled, Whole Foods Exercises Pundit […]
Perishable Thoughts —
Every Sky Has Its Beauty
How ought we to consider the turmoil around us? With stock markets collapsing, unemployment climbing, ancient Bombay under siege by terrorists, pirates ascendant off the coast of Somalia, Iran working on nuclear weapons, danger seems everywhere. One way of looking at the situation is sent in by one of our correspondents who earlier sent in […]
Return To Prudent Lending
As our economic woes continue, many are making the mistake of seeing the restriction of credit as an anomaly… as a symptom of the credit crisis… as something that if markets were functioning normally would not happen. Perhaps, however, it is the loose credit standards of recent years that should be viewed as an anomaly. […]
Small Format Stores And The
Ever-Changing Retail Environment
We have spent loads of electrons writing extensively about Tesco’s Fresh & Easy. We have profiled Safeway’s small format store here and here, and we reflected on Wal-Mart’s Marketside concept in many places, including here and here… all this analysis has left open one question: Do American consumers want to shop in small format stores? […]
Perishable Thoughts —
What Is Leadership?
Now that President-elect Obama has unveiled his national security team, he is receiving praise from the right: ‘By far and away the best I think we could have imagined,” a former Bush administration official tells National Review Online about Monday’s unveiling of Barack Obama’s national-security team. While the left is feeling cheated: Not a single, […]
Will It Work?
This is the question many think about as they look at shrinking 401-K statements and read the daily headlines with both President Bush and President-elect Obama declaring their plans to stabilize the economy. Well, Peter Schiff, who heads up Euro Pacific Capital, was remarkably prescient at predicting our current economic travails, even when he was […]
PMA FIT Kicks Off New Year
With Leadership Symposium
The newly named Produce Marketing Association Foundation for Industry Talent has a new board of directors: SCHULER TO LEAD 2008-2009 PMA FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS The board of directors of the Produce Marketing Association’s Foundation for Industry Talent (PMA FIT) took office at the close of PMA’s 2008 Fresh Summit International Convention and Exposition in […]
Tesco Continues To Be Challenged
Tesco stock did well after its announcement of the slowest same-store sales numbers in its core UK market in 16 years. Why? Investors feared it could be even worse. Due to an acquisition in Korea, total sales grew 11.7% — that is the good news. The home market was, however, a challenge: … in the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Irradiation Risks
Irradiation is a topic of great interest to the industry, especially since the FDA has approved its use for pathogen reduction on iceberg lettuce and spinach. The other day we ran a piece, UC Davis Produce Curriculum Is Open To The Industry, which included information on a UC Davis webinar entitled, Produce Irradiation: Food Safety […]
