Tuesday, 11 February 2020

Stephan's Tuesday Picks
  • When data creates competitive advantage (HBR)
  • How Glossier turned itself into a billion-dollar beauty brand (Wired)
  • Rich sales boost coffee creamers (WSJ)
  • How Google got its employees to eat vegetables (One Zero)
  • Hard coffee, hard kombucha - experts say no beverage is safe from alcohol (WP)

Monday, 10 February 2020

Stephan's Monday Picks
  • Dunkaroos are back. Why? (NYT)
  • Why grocery stores have tiny, kid-sized carts (The Atlantic)
  • Meal kit makers jostle for a slice of Canada's growing, competitive industry (CBC)
  • Financing the transformation in fashion (BCG)
  • The new social contract in the 21st century (McKinsey)

Friday, 7 February 2020

Stephan's Friday Picks
  • How vaping became a public health crisis (New York Magazine)
  • The lucrative, largely unregulated, and widely misunderstood world of vaping (California Sunday Magazine)
  • Nestle invests $200 million in Aimmune after peanut drug allergy approval (Reuters)
  • Canadian antitrust officials probe farm giants (WSJ)
  • From the archives (1986): Why Winnipeg makes a great test market (CBC)

Thursday, 6 February 2020

Stephan's Thursday Picks
  • Does your razor need a gender (WSJ)
  • Bending the cost curve in bricks and mortar retail (McKinsey)
  • Ikea's web app brings interior design to Soviet-era apartments (Bloomberg)
  • Latest front in food delivery: Kitchens in empty malls (WSJ)
  • Scientists are literally spinning up lab-grown meat (Wired)

Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Stephan's Wednesday Picks
  • How private equity buried Payless (NYT)
  • Tim Hortons loyalty program raises questions for franchisees (Financial Post)
  • IKEA promises new data controls for customers (WSJ)
  • The future of food is on Instagram (One Zero)
  • The other fake meat tycoon is coming for China's pork (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Stephan's Tuesday Picks
  • The drive toward sustainability in packaging (McKinsey)
  • Behind Amazon's HQ2 fiasco: Jeff Bezos was jealous of Elon Musk (Bloomberg)
  • In fast-food war, victory goes to those who have the little chickens (LA Times)
  • Can design thinking save business (WSJ)
  • The new business of garbage (HBR)

Monday, 3 February 2020

Stephan's Monday Picks
  • Maker of Lipton cools on tea (WSJ)
  • How chaos at chain pharmacies is putting patients at risk (NYT)
  • How KitchenAid and Le Creuset took over millennial kitchens (The Atlantic)
  • The rise of mouth tech (Wired)
  • Beyond Meat products pulled from Tim Hortons' Canadian locations (Financial Post)