April 22 is Earth Day, an annual occasion first observed in 1970 and meant to raise awareness and inspire action. This year the theme is “Invest in the Planet,” and some retailers are doing just that. Walmart, the planet’s largest retailer, recently announced that its Project Gigaton initiative is now more than halfway to its
CHICAGO — IRI and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading global consulting firm, released their 10th annual CPG Growth Leaders study on Wednesday. Findings revealed that the total U.S. CPG industry grew roughly 3% in 2021, versus an expected sharper slowdown from 2020 — a year in which pandemic-driven shifts in consumer behavior drove over 10% CPG growth. The report
CHICAGO — COVID-related shifts in consumer shopping and consumption behavior helped drive total CPG industry growth of roughly 10.4% in 2020, significantly outpacing the prior three-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.8%, according to a study from IRI and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The ninth annual CPG study from IRI and BCG also looks
CHICAGO — IRI is continuing to collaborate with its partners at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to analyze the latest consumer purchase trends in Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, U.K. and U.S. The company just updated the report, “Consumer Spending Tracker: COVID-19 Impact,” to capture the most recent insights. Key highlights from the research
CHICAGO — IRI is continuing to collaborate with its partners at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to analyze the latest consumer purchase trends in Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, U.K. and U.S. The firm just updated the report, “Consumer Spending Tracker: COVID-19 Impact,” to capture the most recent insights. Key highlights from the research
CHICAGO — IRI is continuing to collaborate with their partners at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to analyze the latest consumer purchases in Italy, France, Germany, New Zealand, the U.K and the U.S. The company just updated the report “COVID-19 Impact: Consumer Spending Tracker” to capture the most recent insights. Key highlights from the research include:
CHICAGO — IRI is continuing to collaborate with their partners at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to analyze the latest consumer purchases in Italy, France, New Zealand, the U.K and the U.S. The company just updated the report, “COVID-19 Impact: Consumer Spending Tracker,” to capture the most recent insights. Key highlights from the research include: Trends
Bigger is not necessarily better anymore, at least when it comes to consumer packaged goods companies. According to research from the Boston Consulting Group and IRI, scale is not the competitive advantage it once was for CPG companies. In fact, one of the study’s key findings was that smaller companies are outpacing their larger counterparts