December 2006
Bob Lane details the steps his company took to engage the whole organization in an operational and cultural transformation.
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June 2006
Rising affluence should help China's dairy industry grow, but fully half of domestic companies may go out of business.
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February 2005
Proven techniques from manufacturing might be the recipe for improving productivity in restaurants.
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May 2004
Coffee is and will remain a commodity. For many coffee farmers, the only way up is out.
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December 2003
Turkey has come a long way, but the informal economy, macroeconomic and political instability, and state ownership continue to hold it back.
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May 2003
Companies offering fresh food in distinctive settings will hit the sweet spot of an otherwise slow-growing fast-food industry.
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August 2002
To become high-performing businesses, agricultural co-ops must move away from their traditional role as service providers.
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February 2001
The wool industry’s share of New Zealand’s total export revenue has dropped to 4 percent—from ten times that in the 1950s—with a similar drop in profitability. The solution? Raise productivity, not prices.
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June 2000
Takeovers in Europe’s grocery-retailing sector work best on the national level. But pressure to grow and the “Wal-Mart factor” are forcing big supermarket chains to look abroad.
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May 2000
Biotechnology will transform the production of chemicals. Here’s why.
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November 1999
Revenues in the quick-service restaurant industry have boomed; returns have not. What can such companies do to beef up their profits at a time when they have to work hard to attract not only customers but also employees?
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February 1999
The brewers, if not the beer, won’t all be alike; they are beginning to consolidate around segments of the business.
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August 1998
Can you make money in China’s packaged food market? There are many recipes for disaster. Three lessons: price for high affordability, rush for scale, and invest in people, not assets.
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February 1998
West Africa uses scarce resources to import food. Western companies can now play a big role either through direct investment or via alliances. A market of 225 million people.
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August 1997
No. We are about to witness a revolution. The challenge: managing an R&D web with a variety of partners. But only a few major developers remain.
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May 1996
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, then (1996) Nestlé’s CEO-elect, talks about his long-term views on globalization. And chocolate.
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February 1996
For much of the 1980s, food and packaged goods companies could do no wrong. More recently, however, industry performance has come crashing back to earth.
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