Friday, 28 April 2023

 Stephan's Friday Picks

  • China's online sellers are revolting against a barrage of refunds (Rest of World)
  • Goodbye to the dried office mangoes (The Atlantic)
  • Bed Bath & Beyond customers rush to use coupons for the last time (WSJ)
  • Port of Montreal expansion costs soar to $1.4 billion (Globe and Mail)
  • From the archives (2019): With Revlon for sale, the hostile takeover era Ron Perelman started comes to an end (Vanity Fair)

Thursday, 27 April 2023

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

  • How IKEA chopped, hollowed out, and flattened its furniture to cut costs (WSJ)
  • Whatever happened to Beyond Meat (FT)
  • McDonald's diners push back against cost increases in some markets, CEO says (CNBC)
  • The crunch on global economic profit (McKinsey)
  • McDonald's PepsiCo, GM flex their pricing power (WSJ)

Wednesday, 26 April 2023

 Stephan's Wednesday Picks

  • Too many Americans are missing out on the best kitchen gadget (The Atlantic)
  • J&J consumer health IPO process to kick off key test for moribund new issue market (WSJ)
  • When did mass layoffs become so common (Vox)
  • Port of Vancouver gears up to build $3.5 billion container terminal (Globe and Mail)
  • What remote workers miss without the 'power of proximity' (NYT)

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

  • Roger Martin: Do you know what's going on below (Medium)
  • Amid imported food shortages, greenhouse farming takes off in Canada (Globe and Mail)
  • One big web: A few ways the world works (Collaborative Fund)
  • Demand for food banks reaches record high levels in Ontario (Globe and Mail)
  • P&G earnings powered by higher prices for detergent, toothpaste (WSJ)

Monday, 24 April 2023

 Stephan's Monday Picks

  • Pepsi's new healthy diet: More potato chips and soda (WSJ)
  • Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy (NYT)
  • Inside the struggle to make lab-grown meat (WSJ)
  • Taco Bell's innovation kitchen, the front line in the stunt-food wars (The New Yorker)
  • Debunking age-based myths about worker preferences (McKinsey)

Friday, 21 April 2023

 Stephan's Friday Picks

  • Turkey's Getir sees valuation almost halved with new funding (Reuters)
  • From Twinkies to Doritos, snacks get tiny (WSJ)
  • State of Grocery Europe 2023: Living with and responding to uncertainty (McKinsey)
  • Stampede in Yemen's capital kills at least 78 seeking food aid (NYT)
  • From the archives (2008): Allan Leighton assumes Loblaw controls (Globe and Mail)

Thursday, 20 April 2023

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

  • The world's richest person auditions his five children to run LVMH (WSJ)
  • Stock-based compensation (Morgan Stanley)
  • New York's only rest stop for delivery workers just closed. Now what (NYT)
  • The myth of the broke millennial (The Atlantic)
  • Rite Aid seeks direction as pressure mounts (WSJ)