Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How Eli Lilly got huge by making us thin (Bloomberg)
• Sales are so low, Californian wineries are burning their vineyards (NYT)
• Trump's tariffs take aim at Canadian whey protein during global shortage (Globe and Mail)
• Should multibuys on unhealthy foods be banned (BBC)
• Sainsbury's strikes deal to sell Argos for £120M to Swift Partners (FT)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The road forward to value creation in consumer products (Bain)
• El Nino threat raises the risk of higher blueberry prices (Bloomberg)
• As Gen Z sips on Yerba Mate, Argentinian farmers are missing out (Bloomberg)
• A Canadian town will no longer reek of fish sauce (Globe and Mail)
• The internet suddenly loves Emeril, years after his TV stardom (NYT)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Couche-Tard to expand European footprint with $8.7 billion acquisition of Polish retailer Zabka (Globe and Mail)
• Customers turning to frozen produce to avoid high food prices, Loblaw CEO says (Globe and Mail)
• Danone's sales rise, with boost from Asia's volumes (WSJ)
• Amazon finds cases of AI causing runaway spending on tech projects (FT)
• Amazon and Walmart's shopping bots downplay 'Made in America' data, report says (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• This is your home on GLP-1s (Architectural Digest)
• Coca-Cola reached for nostalgia. Did it get Marlboro instead (NYT)
• Apotex emerges as only manufacturer of generic Ozempic for now (Globe and Mail)
• The unsexy habit that turned a college dropout into a $300 million founder (Forbes)
• From the archives (2018): The other side of Barry Sherman (Maclean's)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• How 10 billion pounds of lettuce travel from farms to dinner plates (WSJ)
• Unilever sales jump on emerging market demand for Dove soap (Bloomberg)
• Cracker Barrel CEO stepping down after logo redesign, activist pressure (WSJ)
• This summer's status symbol is a $3.99 bottle of water (WSJ)
• Mondelez lifts outlook on higher quarterly sales (WSJ)

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• A different kind of grocery store magnate (NYT)
• Shein slumps to loss ahead of planned Hong Kong listing (FT)
• Sazerac wants another shot at Jack Daniels maker Brown Forman (WSJ)
• The future of the toy industry isn't toys. It's Magic (WSJ)
• Retail giants reject report that major brands sell Chinese tomatoes as Aussie-grown (Bloomberg)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Van Leeuwen's path from a single ice cream truck to a dessert giant (Bloomberg)
• Utz will go private in $2.9 billion deal with Intersnack (Bloomberg)
• What corporate functions of the future will look like (BCG)
• Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years (AP)
• US economic anxieties on display in battle over digital shelf labels (FT)