Corporate
Are You Ready for The Honest Generation?
Futerra and The Consumer Goods Forum launch new research, revealing uncompromising expectations from Gen Z consumers on product transparency for social, health, environmental, and safety issues The Consumer Goods Forum’s Global Summit, Vancouver, Canada, June 13, 2019 – #CGFSummit VANCOUVER, 13th June 2019 — Today, The Consumer Goods Forum and the global change agency […]
Global Summit
The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit Urges Industry to Lean Into Unprecedented Change
Digital transformation and sustainability continue to redefine the global consumer goods industry Wide range of new technologies present exciting opportunities for business to address these challenges, often through collaboration Generation Z proving even more demanding and sceptical than Millennials PARIS, 23rd June 2019 – Digital transformation and sustainability are the key challenges facing the consumer goods […]
Health & Wellness
Mindful Eating or Eating for Your Mind?
Diet and mental health at the workplace in a Covid-19 era In a pre-Covid-19 world, depression and anxiety were estimated to cost the global economy more than US $ 1 trillion per year1 in lost productivity. From recent discussions with companies on workplace wellbeing we notice a recurring theme: if mental health was emerging […]
Collaboration for Healthier Lives
Mindful Eating or Eating for Your Mind?
Diet and mental health at the workplace in a Covid-19 era. *This is an update to a previously published article In a pre-Covid-19 world, depression and anxiety were estimated to cost the global economy more than US $ 1 trillion per year1 in lost productivity. From recent discussions with companies on workplace wellbeing we notice […]
Sustainable Retail Summit
Conscious Consumerism is Transforming Industries
Conscious consumers are voting with their phones and wallets. Sustainably aware buyers aren’t just motivated by advertising, convenience and cost. Instead, they research the companies they buy from and support to understand their purpose, business processes, sustainability commitments and, more importantly, the impact their products or services have on the planet. While this trend dates back […]
How Digital and Health Will Converge for a Better You
Today, as the CEO of Campbell, I’m just as intrigued by the convergence of innovative digital technology and the consumer’s increasing focus on health and well-being because it has implications for consumers and our industry. The convergence of these two trends is accelerating the rise of “quantified lives” or as Time magazine called it […]
Health & Wellness
From Small to Nutritious: Can Retailers Lead a Healthy Food Revolution?
The retail sector is where consumers come face to face with food. Retailers have significant influence over whether the food that consumers face is nutritious, safe, available, affordable or attractive. I have heard it said many times that the chief buyers for large food retailers are more important in influencing food choices than Ministries of […]
Plastic Waste
Driving Green Consumption: The Role of Sustainability and Pack Sizing in Consumer Decisions
Does one size fit all? Flexible pack sizes that fit one’s consumption pattern is a basic requirement for today’s consumers. The on-the-go lifestyles of millennials and Gen Z led to a surge in single-serve products in recent times. These consumer segments were also among the most environmentally conscious, making it important for product companies to ensure that […]
FLP-Conference
Talent Development in a World Where Businesses Need Purpose
As a HR director, my mission is to make sure that our company is not only ready for today, but also for the challenges it will be facing tomorrow. Identifying the future leaders in the company – those who have both the business credentials and the personal qualities to be on the succession path as […]
Global Summit
Why Consumer Centricity is Top of the Agenda at this Year’s Global Summit
It’s barely a month until our Global Summit, the flagship event of The Consumer Goods Forum, where CEOs and senior leaders come together to learn from each other and discuss the most pressing trends in the consumer industry. This year, the Summit will focus on “Consumer Centricity in a Data-Driven World”. We will offer you […]
Corporate
The Values of Values: Setting the Course (Defining Values)
This is the first of three articles in a series about ‘the value of values’ in which we will highlight values as a guiding principle for positive impact. We’ll begin by defining what values are, how they’re used, and their evolution for use in business. The second article will be about walking the talk: identifying […]
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