McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company.
January 2012
Over the next quarter century, the rise of three billion more middle-class consumers will strain natural resources. The race is on to boost resource supplies, overhaul their management, and change the game with new technologies.
October 2011
Fisheries create work for 180 million people and $500 billion a year in economic activity. They are under pressure.
April 2011
To succeed, African countries must narrow their focus and target high-impact projects.
June 2010
A nonprofit’s work in Mozambique and other developing countries shows how businesses there can break the cycle of poverty.
May 2007
The industry is still in its infancy but evolving rapidly. Companies that hope to compete must devise their entry strategy now.
March 2007
Argentina and Brazil are already agricultural giants. But the best local companies are far in advance of the rest.
The country now produces ethanol more cheaply than anywhere else on Earth, but that may not be true for long.
December 2006
Bob Lane details the steps his company took to engage the whole organization in an operational and cultural transformation.
June 2006
Rising affluence should help China's dairy industry grow, but fully half of domestic companies may go out of business.
February 2005
Proven techniques from manufacturing might be the recipe for improving productivity in restaurants.
May 2004
Coffee is and will remain a commodity. For many coffee farmers, the only way up is out.
December 2003
Turkey has come a long way, but the informal economy, macroeconomic and political instability, and state ownership continue to hold it back.
May 2003
Companies offering fresh food in distinctive settings will hit the sweet spot of an otherwise slow-growing fast-food industry.
August 2002
To become high-performing businesses, agricultural co-ops must move away from their traditional role as service providers.
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.
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.
May 2000
Biotechnology will transform the production of chemicals. Here’s why.
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?
February 1999
The brewers, if not the beer, won’t all be alike; they are beginning to consolidate around segments of the business.
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.
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.
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.
May 1996
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, then (1996) Nestlé’s CEO-elect, talks about his long-term views on globalization. And chocolate.
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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