Everyone needs an escape. Something, anything, to take your mind off your current situation and recharge. Mine is carpentry. While I am no professional or craftsman, I've restored a 70-year-old dining table and built desks as well as a bench so I can enjoy my lemon trees inside. I’ve even fixed a pre-World War 2 dresser, which contained a fabulous surprise, but more on that later. Restoration is my passion. It's a great feeling bringing something back by stripping away the layers of paint, reconstructing lost parts, and rediscovering the beauty of the design. You learn a lot in this process.
Inflation and Transportation Costs May Have Peaked, but their Impact Remains
on February 9, 2022
| By Mark Schwans
An extensive amount of news today focuses on inflation and supply chain disruptions. The latest Survey of Consumers focused on inflation's impact to consumer sentiment, which fell to its lowest level since November 2011. While the Delta and Omicron variants have pushed the index lower, consumers' primary concern is rising inflation and falling real incomes.1
Escape the Horrors with Revenue Growth Management
on October 26, 2021
| By Antuit Insights
Companies have a difficult road ahead. Economic profit growth was 1/3 of the previous decade, and continuous cost pressures, supply shortages, and a changing consumer are creating a dreadful atmosphere. Worse, this will be the norm for the next 12-24 months. Hence, CPG companies are finding improvements using Revenue Growth Management.
Revolutionizing Retail through a Unified Demand Signal
on October 19, 2021
| By Antuit Insights
Few things dramatically change society. Before the automobile, most people lived their entire life within 20 kilometers of their birth. The tractor, not the option of industrial labor jobs, made it possible for people to leave the heavy labor of farming. And the internet has also changed many facets of life, including allowing people to work from home. Now, AI and computing processing advancements have made the thought-intensive exercise of a single, demand-driven forecast (a Unified Demand Signal) a reality.
Stop the Trade Promotion Insanity. Embrace RGM.
on October 5, 2021
| By Antuit Insights
The old paradigm of trade promotion investments has failed. Companies that continue to reinforce the process will realize short-lived, incremental improvements. CPG companies will never achieve the transformational results necessary for being nimble and growing in the new environment without a broader, strategic consumer-focused strategy.
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