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Consumer Business News (CBN) is the monthly electronic newsletter of The Consumer Goods Forum. It is exclusively reserved to and free of charge for representatives of member companies.
Consumer Business News offers a synthesised digest of key moves in the consumer goods business. It outlines essential developments in the sector through the organisation value-added information on companies, market trends and innovations.
Keep up to date on key developments in the food business worldwide, please contact:
Richard LEWIS
Tel: (+33) 1 44 69 99 32
Fax: (+33) 1 44 69 99 39
E-mail: r.lewis@theconsumergoodsforum.com
The Top of Mind survey sets out the key issues for the year ahead. Based on the views of food business executives around the world, the survey results provide a vital insight into the trends shaping the sector.
Top of Mind is published in January and is a supplement of Consumer Business News.
The Internationalisation of Food Retailing is an annual study that analyses international expansion by food retailers:
The Internationalisation is a CBN special supplement, updated each October.
The Consumer Goods Forum provides daily news coverage through its Consumer Goods Forum Daily service. This free email bulletin features the most important breaking news in the food retail sector in two to four short items.
Please contact Richard Lewis (r.lewis@theconsumergoodsforum.com)
The Consumer Goods Forum Annual Outlook offers a review of the major issues the global retail sector has faced over the past year and presents how the organisation activities have helped its members to contribute to the debate and to find concrete answers to those issues.
Annual Outlook 2009
Annual Outlook 2008 - Japanese Version
Annual Outlook 2007 - Japanese Version
Annual Review 2006
Annual Review 2005
Other Studies are being led in the framework of each programme:
At the CIES World Food Business Summit in June 2008 in Munich (Germany), KPMG and CIES conducted a detailed survey of over 200 members of the global food, drink and retail industry to provide an insight into the industry's growth plans and strategy and its approach and response to sustainability.
This paper synthesizes the results of this survey along the four main themes of: growth, sustainability, cost optimization and human capital.
In order to measure the real record of food retailing, CIES – The Food Business Forum, in the framework of its Food Business in Society Initiative, commissioned an “Audit” from Templeton College, University of Oxford, on the contribution of the sector to society.
The report draws on a wide range of secondary sources covering Asia, Europe and North America to measure the impact of food retailers in three interlinked areas: the Economy, Employment & Society:
The CIES Marketing Study was carried out with retailers from 33 countries. The study looked at how retailers use customer data in making decisions for their banners/brands.
To benchmark how you manage customer information compared to other retailers view the study here.
A study by GMA, CIES - The Food Business Forum and Food Marketing Institute, found in 2002 that approximately 47% of worldwide out-of-stocks are caused by inadequate store ordering and forecasting and 25% by poor shelf management.
The study explores the out-of-stock issue on a global scale by examining 661 retail outlets, 32 consumer goods categories and surveyed 71,000 consumers in 29 countries.
To view the full study.
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