Wednesday, 9 June 2021

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

  • Grocers can fuel growth with advanced analytics (McKinsey)
  • Montreal plots 'charm offensive' to lure workers downtown (Bloomberg)
  • Amazon battles Mukesh Ambani to win India's e-commerce future (NYT)
  • Love them or hate them, Crocs are back (Washington Post)
  • Canadian furniture retailers appeal tariffs that have tripled some prices (Globe and Mail)

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

  • Roger Martin: Asking great strategy questions (Medium)
  • Inside IKEA's digital transformation (HBR)
  • How delivery apps are driving the automation of India's restaurant kitchens (Rest of World)
  • It's hard work to make ordering groceries online so easy (NYT)
  • McCain says all its french fries will be made from a farm using regenerative agriculture by 2030 (Globe and Mail)

Monday, 7 June 2021

 Stephan's Monday Picks

  • Rent the Runway preparing for IPO later this year (Bloomberg)
  • Is New York's year of lavish tipping coming to an end (NYT)
  • A day in the life of a flavour inventor (BBC)
  • Turkish food delivery company Getir raises money at $7.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
  • What are you going to wear when you go back to the office (WSJ)

Friday, 4 June 2021

 Stephan's Friday Picks

  • The pied piper of SPACs (The New Yorker)
  • Booze-to-go is here to stay (WSJ)
  • How precision revenue growth management transforms CPG promotions (McKinsey)
  • Etsy is buying the fashion resale retailer Depop for $1.6 billion (NYT)
  • From the archives (2021): Connected health: What's getting us excited at Wittington Ventures (Medium

Thursday, 3 June 2021

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

  • The great wings rush (The Verge)
  • LuxCo 2030: A vision of sustainable luxury (Bain)
  • The pizza business is divided on delivery (WSJ)
  • What went wrong at Haven (Fortune)
  • At-scale holistic transformation in the consumer packaged goods industry (McKinsey)

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

  • For DoorDash and Uber Eats, the future is everything in about an hour (WSJ)
  • What hoarding toilet paper means for economic data (Bloomberg)
  • How the world ran out of everything (NYT)
  • Nestle document says the majority of its food is unhealthy (FT)
  • Cyberattack closes JBS meat-packing facilities in Canada, U.S, and Australia (CBC)

Tuesday, 1 June 2021

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

  • Roger Martin: From strategy to planning (Medium)
  • These health-conscious drinks are not the sugary sodas you grew up on (Bloomberg)
  • Digital strategy in the post-pandemic era (McKinsey)
  • How Hubert Joly changed Best Buy without everyone hating him (WSJ)
  • It's going to be a big summer for hard seltzer (NYT)