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Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Future of food industry and retail sector – articles, videos and presentations on the future of the food and retail industry by Futurist conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Clients include Unilever, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, McDonalds, Sara Lee, Diageo, Danone, Femsa, Irish Food Board, Diageo, European Coffee Federation, Food Business Forum, Nutreco, RPC, Schwan's Frozen Foods, Tetrapak. Retail chains: Saks 5th Avenue, Proffitt's, Loveman's, Parisian, Macrae's, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott, Boston Store Department Stores and Younkers. Patrick Dixon has given keynotes on retail related issues to audiences in North America, Central America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Baltic States, Scandinavia, Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and Asia Pacific.Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Future of food industry and retail sector – articles, videos and presentations on the future of the food and retail industry. Food is an emotional business – just think of a mother’s anxieties when there is yet another scare about contamination of baby food. The same applies to drinks. So if we want to understand the future of food and beverages, we need to understand how consumer emotions are changing. Leaders of food and drink companies need to be sharply focused on rapid changes in public mood, perception and values, with uncompromising commitment to quality and value. Brand reputation is earned in a lifetime and lost in a day. Food brands have proved remarkably enduring because food enables us to recapture early childhood memories.
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Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Here are some key trends for the retail industry over the next 5-10 years in Europe: Time-Savers, Brand-Busters, Mega-Chains, Blood-Bath, Niche Traders, Older Consumers, Food Shortages, Ultra-Premium, Online Boom, Mobile Marketing, Online Aggregators, Wireless Payment, Wireless Warehousing, Leisure Retailing, Speed to Market, Power Packaging, Brands within Brands, Hype to Revelation - and most of all, Customer Focus.
Patrick Dixon has worked with many of the world's largest manufacturers of retail goods.
Read more: Future of the retail sector in Europe, customers and marketing
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
For every retail outlet that opens in a new Mall, another has to close somewhere else - a corner store, high street shop, or market stall. Huge planning implications for town centres, following massive growth of big shopping centres. Impact on consumer choice.
How small stores can survive and thrive in niche markets, competing against large retail chains and multinational super brands, by offering unique products and services with outstanding...
Read more: Future Shopping Malls - and death of smaller outlets - Future Retail Trends
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Future food crisis and why there are global food shortages. Population growth is often blamed but we have enough food to feed the world without hunger of famine. Food price crises of 2007-8 and 2011-12 were caused by many factors including flood, drought, failed harvests, damaged crops, disease.
But the biggest single change was burning food as biofuels. In 2011 over 40% of all wheat grain grown on farms in America was burnt in vehicles.
Read more: Future food shortages: consumers, retail, farms, energy industry, biofuels
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Food industry trends in retail - small food outlets to major retail chains. Food sales are all about emotion and consumer passion: quality, health, flavour, additives, colourants, natural food, organic food, preservatives, sourcing of animals, animal welfare, sustainable fisheries, fair trade, kosher, hallal, vegetarian, vegan - there are already hundreds of niche food markets.
Expect this diversification to continue - with specialist retail food...
Read more: Future of Food Retailing, food industry trends, consumer lifestyles
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
How retail chains and supermarkets persuade customers to buy.
Manipulating the customer journey around the store with well-placed special offers, combinations of products, eye-catching displays and other retail marketing promotions. Experience of Tesco, Safeway, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Carrefour and Wal-Mart.
Video for Hermes client event in the UK
Read more: Filling the supermarket trolley: customer journeys, future retail trends
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Retail impact of online price comparison using mobile devices, smartphones, aggregator sites. Shopping patterns and customer behaviour. Online sales growth from retail sites, where customers compare prices in stores or shopping malls and then buy online or from a competitor store nearby.
Aggregator sites will grow rapidly, creating strong price competition, eroding viability of physical retail outlets, especially in electronic consumer goods,...
Read more: Mobile Price Comparison: impact on retail customer sales / ecommerce
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
How sales of budget brands AND super-premium brands are both set to grow. Future of retail industry and trends in sales of luxury goods and services. Economic crisis, austerity, fall in personal disposable income, increase in taxation, rise in unemployment, cuts in government spending.
All these economic factors will force more people to buy budget brands. However, expect the wealth gap between the rich and poor to increase in every nation, especially...
Read more: Growth of Budget Brands AND Super Premium. Retail industry trends
Futurist Keynote - Articles and Videos - Food, Drink, Beverages, Retail, Farming, Fishing
Why every second counts in retail - and how companies lose customers faster than they realise. Vital trends for the future of retailing from Futurist keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Marketing and selling to customers should be fast, easy, convenient and satisfying.
Keep your customers happy, listen to them, keep close to how they are really thinking about your products and services. In a time-poor world, customers are increasingly fed up with companies...
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