Tuesday, 9 April 2024

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

  • Roger Martin: Good Strategy / Bad Strategy & Playing to Win (Medium)
  • Tesco sits at the top of the food chain but rivals are getting peckish (Tesco)
  • Consumers hate 'price discrimination' but they sure love a discount (NYT)
  • How Emily Weiss influenced everything (Elle)
  • How some of your favourite brands are brought back from the dead (CBC)

Monday, 8 April 2024

 Stephan's Monday Picks

  • Brands are concerned about how they're perceived by ChatGPT (Fast Company)
  • Daniel Kahneman: The unlikely economist (Morningstar)
  • Here's who should pay for everyone's Ozempic (Slate)
  • People are fed up with Loblaw's store prices. Would a boycott accomplish anything (CBC)
  • Canada's unemployment rate jumps to 6.1% as job creation stalls (Globe and Mail)

Friday, 5 April 2024

 Stephan's Friday Picks

  • Women lead here - but why do so many of them leave (Globe and Mail)
  • Another AI target: Food waste (NYT)
  • A hit brands 'one size fits most' is dividing America's teens (WSJ)
  • Dollarama reports 24% profit boost in fourth quarter, hikes dividend (Globe and Mail)
  • From the archives (2021): The hog barons (Vox)

Thursday, 4 April 2024

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

  • Big Food and dietitians push anti-diet advice, despite rising obesity (Washington Post)
  • Tina Lee reveals moments that changed everything (CBC)
  • Apotex `buys specialty pharma Searchlight in $500 million-plus move to diversify from generic drugs (Globe and Mail)
  • What we know - and don't - about the national school food program (CBC)
  • Canadian Tire's down year prompts zero bonuses for executives (Globe and Mail)

Wednesday, 3 April 2024

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

  • The new hotel essential: Easy take-out food (WSJ)
  • Investors spoiled for choice with top ice cream makers for sale (Ben & Jerry's)
  • How playing offense on sustainability can power e-commerce (McKinsey)
  • Quebec franchisees sue Tim Hortons, claiming declining profits (Globe and Mail)
  • Home Depot buys roofing distributor in deal valued at $18 billion including debt (WSJ)

Tuesday, 2 April 2024

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

  • Roger Martin: How to become a strategic CFO (Medium)
  • How Lidl's breakneck expansion came to a juddering halt (The Telegraph)
  • Inside the A&W test kitchen, a battlefield (CBC)
  • How fashion can afford and accelerate decarbonization (McKinsey)
  • Insolvencies, shifts in consumer behaviour keep liquidators busy (Globe and Mail)

Monday, 1 April 2024

 Stephan's Monday Picks

  • When you miscalculate the value of brands (Rita McGrath)
  • Has the luxury e-commerce bubble burst (NYT)
  • A $20 billion merger depends on whether you think Walmart is a supermarket (WSJ)
  • Bank of Canada warns of 'low productivity emergency' (Globe and Mail)
  • Hershey, Mondelez bet big on Easter as cocoa price crisis looms (Reuters)