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10 Ways to Improve Your Commercial Awareness

Gabby Smith

August 13, 2022

Commercial Awareness Understanding how your business works and makes money is essential to improving your overall ROI (Return On Investment)…

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Distribution Channel Strategy : 5 Effective Ways to Improve Yours

Egle Adomynaite

July 21, 2022

Are You Using Your Distribution Channels to Best Effect? Understand Them, and Make Them Work for You Distribution channel strategy,…

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Online Grocery: Free Whitepaper About the Rapid Grocery Market

Darren A. Smith

May 18, 2022

The 10-Minute Delivery Online Grocery has been around a while, but Rapid Grocery and the likes of Getir, DoorDash, Gorillas,…

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Data Insight: The Art and Skill of Analysing Data to Create Insight

Andy Palmer

May 18, 2022

Turning Data into Insight is a Skill. Almost an Art Form. Most People Regurgitate Data into Graphs and Tables, and…

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Macro Trends in the UK Grocery Industry and Where to Find Them

Oliver Walker

April 4, 2022

UK Supermarkets and Their Suppliers are Always ‘Horizon Scanning’ and Wanting to Understand the Macros Trends in the Industry. New…

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Supplier Management: UK Grocery Multiples & Their Supplier Bases

Andrew Grant

April 4, 2022

Supplier Management is Not Only for Christmas…. David and Goliath Let’s talk supplier management. Your day-to-day interactions with UK supermarket…

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7 Benefits of Category Management and Why You Should take Notice

Darren A. Smith

March 28, 2022

The Benefits of Category Management are Improved Category Performance for Everyone Involved To realise these benefits the range of products is…

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Cost Price Increase in the UK Post-Pandemic

Andrew Grant

February 26, 2022

No Not Another US Import Crime Series With a Banging Theme Tune by The Who But Still Plenty of Potential…

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Planograms: the importance of Retail Space Planning

Andy Palmer

February 22, 2022

Let’s Discuss the Role of Planograms in Retail Space Optimisation For decades, Planograms have been the primary approach to retail…

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Aggressive But Inexperienced: Perils of the New Breed of Buyers

Darren A. Smith

February 21, 2022

Does Youth Add up to Being Aggressive But Inexperienced? The new cohort of UK supermarket buyers are young, aggressive but…

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Category Manager e-Assessment

Andy Palmer

January 25, 2022

Are You a Great Category Manager? Category management is about identifying opportunities, selling opportunities, and landing opportunities that drive category…

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42 One-Sentence Category Management Tips to Identify, Sell & Land More

Andy Palmer

January 21, 2022

Identify, Sell and Land More Opportunites with These Category Management Tips Category management is the process of grouping like products into…