Future of Fast Moving Consumer Goods

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Household goods, food and drink trends - for The Leading Edge Strategy Group client event in London.  Impact of recession  on household demand, wholesale, manufacturing and retail.  Managing risk  and seizing opportunity in fast moving consumer good sector (FMCG).  Changes in consumer behavior and mood.  Impact of global warming and climate change concerns.

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Food is an Emotional Business! Future of Beverages and Food Industry - keynote VIDEO

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Food and beverages manufacturing, wholesale, distribution, packaging and retail. Food marketing and sales is an emotional business. Appealing to consumer tastes, flavours, instincts, passions, prejudices, lifestyle aspirations, childhood memories, associations, brand preferences, fears, hopes and dreams.

Customer demographics impact on the food industry. Good and bad news travels fast in food retailing. Conference...

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Why online shopping is TOO SLOW - faster home delivery - retail

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Online retail is shockingly slow - for all physical products, compared to downloards. Customer focus - vital to business survival, yet often dangerously lacking. What does it actually feel like? - your own customer experience? Lessons for supply chain management and logistics from web users / digital consumers. Companies can lose 30% of all web traffic if pages take more than a few seconds to load. Digital customers becoming very impatient... especially time to deliver goods ordered online. Mobile phone apps create expectations that products delivered seconds after ordering. Pressure on overnight delivery or same day delivery.

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Customer Focus! Future of Food Industry - demographics, emerging markets

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Future consumers. Developing business in emerging markets eg India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, South East Asia, Turkey, Mexico, Argentina. Impact on food and beverages industries. Cultural challenges of working in emerging markets. Adapting culture, methods, organization to emerging markets. Future of food packaging, retail, wholesale, distribution, manufacturing. Threat of China food packaging companies, innovation...

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Future of Retail Industry including food and drink / beverages - keynotes

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Future of food industry and retail sector – Futurist articles, videos and keynote presentations on the future of the food and retail industry by conference speaker Patrick Dixon. Patrick Dixon is one of the world's best-known Futurist keynote speakers, has worked with hundreds of the world's largest companies and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today. Clients include Carlsburg, Unilever, McDonalds, PepsiCo, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Sara Lee, Diageo, Danone, Femsa, Co-op Group, Steinhoff, Tulip, Bord Bia - Irish Food Board, European Coffee Federation, Food Business Forum, Swedish Groceries Association, Givaudin, Nutreco, RPC, British Frozen Foods Federation, Schwan's Frozen Foods, Tetrapak, Smurfit Kappa. Retail chains: Saks 5th Avenue, Proffitt's, Loveman's, Parisian, Macrae's, Herberger's, Carson Pirie Scott, Boston Store Department Stores and Younkers. Patrick Dixon has given keynotes on retail related issues to audiences in North America, Central America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Baltic States, Scandinavia, Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and Asia Pacific.

Future of Restaurants - Tips for Success in every restaurant - keynote

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Important tips for successful restaurants. Trends in restaurant, numbers eating out.

Focus on the whole experience, sense of magic, theatre.  Get the menu right - most restaurants need to start over again.

Make sure your restaurant looks good from the street and smells good as people enter.  Make it an event to remember.

Train your waiters how to look.  Pay attention to the little things.  Create a virtual restaurant online.

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Future of logistics, supply chain management, retail, freight, manufacturing

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Future of logistics and supply chain management. Future of national post offices and postal service monopolies. DHL, Fedex and UPS global competition for just-in-time courier services. Growth of air freight, alternative delivery services. Deregulation of delivery services. Distribution and supplies of components, raw materials and finished products. Package and parcel RFID tracking technologies and RFID controversy. Road, rail, air and shipping comparative costs. Inflation and outsourcing. Overnight delivery and same day delivery services - growing demand. Pharmacies and garages lead way. Integration of EPOS data. Planning security of supplies and risk management. Online tracking and tracing of products. Integration into global supply chain, suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, warehouses, retail.

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Future of Food, Drink and Packaging Industries - Growth Strategies

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Growth strategies and megatrends impact on food, drink and packaging industries -- conference keynote speaker at Tetrapak event. Consumer trends, lifestyle, health and nutrition, food safety, beverages and liquid food. Food and beverages marketing, customer insight, product choices. Growth strategy, leadership in emerging markets, team motivation and management. Logistics, transport, distribution, storage and retail food displays. How customers are changing. Impact of social media on food and beverage industry. Future food and drink marketing messages. Growing sales in emerging markets. Demographic trends and impact on retail food and drink sales.

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How can we feed the world? FUTURIST Q&A with Patrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker

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Q via www.twitter.com on global food shortages and the moral challenge of eliminating hunger when billions have too much to eat.

Need for green revolution in Africa - agriculture transformation, new crops, better land use, better use of fertilisers and pesticides, more irrigation and better water use, and ban on converting food into biofuels.

Comment by Futurist and conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon

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The Future of the Coffee Industry; production, distribution, retail, changing patterns of coffee consumption, ethical issues, Future of Fair Trade Coffee and the Worldwide Sustainable Coffee Fund - Financial Times interview with Futurist Keynote Speaker

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A Future of Coffee Industry Keynote (and interview with the Financial Times) - Dr Patrick Dixon for the European Coffee Federation posed huge questions about the future of coffee as a consumer product in a world increasingly concerned about values, ethics and image. 

Need a world-class coffee industry keynote speaker? Phone Patrick Dixon now or email.

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Future of Aquaculture - Farming Trends Keynote Speaker

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The future of fish farms - sustainable sea food. Get ready for big shifts in public opinion - for example over the pigmentation they want to see in fish farmed salmon.

As Europe's leading futurist, Dr. Patrick Dixon has plenty to tell on the pitfalls and opportunities that will face the aquaculture sector over the coming decade. At this summers AquaVision 2002 Conference (Nutreco sponsor) Dr. Dixon will be setting the scene for delegates at the conference and in his opening key note speech be aiming to provide them with a framework to think about for the future, not just for today's issues but a framework that will work for them for the next 10-20 years.

(Article from Aquavision Magazine 2002)

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Future of Food, Beverages and Health - retail stores, consumer marketing trends - keynote speaker

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Future of food industry. Demographic impact of 1 billion children and their parents. Demand for bottled water by worried parents. Growing middle class in emerging nations, sociodemographic changes. Huge growth in sparking beverages, fruit drinks, soft drinks with nutritional benefit. VIDEO.

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Future of Food, Beverages and Health - retail stores, consumer marketing trends

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Future of food industry. Demographic impact of 1 billion children and their parents. Demand for bottled water by worried parents. Growing middle class in emerging nations, sociodemographic changes. Huge growth in sparking beverages, fruit drinks, soft drinks with nutritional benefit. Trends in sales of low sugar drinks, with nutrition labeling, Coca-Cola sales, added vitamins, antioxidants. Future of beverages industry. Food and drink for health, disease prevention and to improve life expectancy, so...

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Food and Drink Industry, Health, Nutrition and Obesity, consumers, customers

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Obesity impact on future of food industry, prevention of weight problems, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Rapid growth in numbers of obese babies, children and young adults. Demographic impact of 1 billion children and their parents. Demand for bottled water by worried parents. Huge growth in low carb sparking beverages, fruit drinks, soft drinks, carbonated beverages with nutritional benefit. Trends in sales of low sugar drinks, with nutrition labeling, Coca-Cola sales, added added vitamins, antioxidants. Future of beverages industry. Food and drink for health, disease prevention and to improve life expectancy, so food becomes a health product.

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