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Loeb's Third Point Takes New Approach In Battle With Nestlé

For a year, billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has watched quietly from afar as Nestlé SA tries to energise its business. But his patience h...

Southeast Asia's Plastic 'Addiction' Blights World's Oceans

On her lunch break, Bangkok office worker Chinapa Payakha emerges from a 7-Eleven store with two plastic bags. One holds a Big Gulp soft drink. The othe...

World Wide Webb: Beer's Battle Of The Sexes

In a new online only series, ESM senior reporter Ben Webb takes a sideways look at some of the issues affecting the retail and FMCG industries. In this wee...

In China, Industry Push-Back Stubs Out Anti-Smoking Gains

Earlier this year, the city of Hangzhou, home to the internet giant Alibaba, was poised to join Beijing, Shanghai and a handful of other urban areas in ban...

Portuguese Retailers Betting On Organic Products, Study Finds

Portuguese retailers are investing more and more in their organic product ranges, meeting consumer demand for healthy, sustainable products, a study has fo...

Beer-Maker AB InBev Pumps Up The Volume In Africa

Sitting outside the ramshackle Vimba Tavern in Johannesburg's Alexandra township, Patrick Mashego swigs from a one-litre bottle of Carling Black Label, Sou...

Ad Infinitum? Mad Men Seek New Pitch For Digital Age

Paid to have their finger on the consumer's pulse, the Mad Men of advertising are under mounting pressure from clients to adapt to a fast-changing digital...

The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit: Consumer Centricity in a Data-Driven World

The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit has a legacy of inviting some of the most influential names in retail and consumer goods to address delegates, and t...