E2E Value Chain
Qusai Sarraf, CEO, IVIS Group Talks Modern Retail Trends at the Supply Chain Conference 2023
Qusai Sarraf, Founder and CEO, IVIS Group, delves into the trends of modern retail and the ongoing shift from demand to value chain. He will discuss the benefits of using enrichment to drive demand chain...
E2E Value Chain
From Demand Chain to Value Chain: The Power of Product Enrichment in Modern Retail
In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting consumer preferences, supply chains across the food manufacturing and retail sectors are undergoing a transformation. As these industries evolve towards a more customer-centric approach, product...
Global Summit
Overview of the Irish Retail Landscape
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, Ireland implemented some of the strictest lockdown restrictions in the world. Initial hopes that “two weeks to flatten the curve” – as then-Prime Minister Leo Varadkar put it...
Sustainable Retail Summit
Modern Slavery – A Shared Problem
Modern slavery should be at the heart of our approach to sustainability. How can we say that we are sustainable if doing business is predicated on the abuse and exploitation of others? As operators of...
E2E Value Chain
Global Retail Reset Demands Location Data Transparency
After a historically disruptive year, physical retail has started a global reset unlike anything seen in modern times. The decline in the productivity of many retail locations has been directly impacted by the upswing in...
Sustainable Retail Summit
Recap: 2022 Sustainable Retail Summit Day 2
AMSTERDAM, 27th October 2022 – We kicked off an exciting start to our first full day of sessions with a warm welcome from moderator Isabelle Kumar and Wai-Chan Chan, Managing Director at The Consumer Goods...
Human Rights
Facilitating a Race to the ‘Top’ for Business in Tackling Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Last year one of the most famous brands in the world, Apple, won the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Stop Slavery Award, alongside The Consumer Goods Forum member, Unilever. The Stop Slavery Award does not credit either...
Sustainable Retail Summit
Sustainable Retail Summit Day One Recap
BERLIN, 24th October 2019 – After a successful day of critical insights, best practice sharing and rich discussions, day one of the 4th Sustainable Retail Summit has come to an end. Close to 300 industry...
Sustainable Retail Summit
Recap: 2022 Sustainable Retail Summit Day 3
AMSTERDAM, 28th OCTOBER 2022 – The third and final day of the Sustainable Retail Summit 2022 in Amsterdam began with a discussion around a hugely important element of sustainability strategies: plastics and package are making...
E2E Value Chain
Growing the Joint Profit Pool of Retailers and Manufacturers in Europe
In Europe, modern trade retailers account for 40% to 80% of annual sales and gross profit for most consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs). Much of that profit is concentrated in four to five main customers...
Social Sustainability
Business Partners Come Together in Bangkok for CGF’s “Responsible Operations and Sourcing” Event
On September 25th, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) held its first “Responsible Operations & Sourcing” conference, in partnership with AIM-PROGRESS and ELEVATE, in Bangkok, Thailand. The event brought together over 220 business partners of the CGF and AIM-PROGRESS...
Global Summit
How FMCG Brands Can Keep Up with Millennials
When we talk about “millennials”, there can sometimes be a tendency to generalise about what is actually a very diverse group of consumers, covering anyone from the ages of 18- to around 35-years-old, anywhere in...
Corporate
CGF Announces New Members for May 2021
PARIS, 28th May 2021 — The Consumer Goods Forum is delighted to announce the following new companies have joined our global membership community and, in doing so, have confirmed their commitment to our vision of...
Environmental Sustainability
Bolstering our Global Supply Chains with the Power of Relationships
Global supply chains have developed to become a super network connecting the world with goods. Even more so since they have become increasingly digitized and intelligent with learning algorithms and artificial intelligence. It may seem...
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