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Can Cava Convince The World It’s Worth $200 A Bottle?

Does the idea of ultra-luxe, pricey cava sound like a joke? It’s not to Spanish winemakers. If you think all Iberian sparkling wines are simple, $...

ESM: The Biggest Stories Of The Year - 2016

The birth of a new year is a time to reflect on the outgoing annum, and look forward to the next. 2016 held great controversy and tragedy - the election of...

Happy New Year From ESM: European Supermarket Magazine

The team at ESM: European Supermarket Magazine wish all our readers a very Happy New Year. Here's to a prosperous, profitable 2017 for everyone working...

Confident Consumers Aren't Always Spendthrift Shoppers In US Market: Gadfly

U.S. consumers feel great, right? The presidential election is over. Talk of jobs and infrastructure spending, coupled with stock-market indices flirting w...

Trump Is Set To Refill The M&A Punch Bowl In 2017: Gadfly

What to expect after a year of frenetic, if not record-breaking, M&A? The roughly $3 trillion in global takeovers announced in 2016 was near the...

Nestlé CEO's Greedy Past May Keep it from Giving Up Sugar: Gadfly

Risk is back on, so who needs chocolate? Nestlé SA needs to roll with the times, and investors have a lot of optimism that its brand-new chief execu...

Seven & I's Share Surge Ignores Some Inconvenient Truths: Gadfly

Seven & i Holdings Co.'s posting of better-than-expected third-quarter results has left investors feeling all slushy. Lovestruck shareholders dr...

Amazon’s Drones, Donald Trump And The Future Of Work: Editorial

Decades from now, when historians look back on 2016, they’ll of course take note of the momentous votes on both sides of the Atlantic. But if they&rs...