Danone's purchase of WhiteWave will grant it with America'a leading organic milk brand - Horizon Organic - but the company will have to sell Stonyfield, the number 1 brand in organic yogurt with 65% market share, per antitrust requirements. Danone's portfolio and...
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Marketing Innovation Brief: March 2017
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Amazon Go, Amazon Meal Kits and the Future of Retail
Today, Amazon has unveiled its grocery store concept - Amazon Go. Beyond product variety, this store re-imagines convenience through a completely seamless, digital check out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc This kind of store may hold many benefits...
KitKat and the Brand Retail Strategy
Brand stores and pop up retail continue to provide brands with a great marketing tactic, enabling them to engage consumers directly, and set the scene for the ultimate consumption experience of the brand. Over the last few years, brands have invested in retail way...
Mobile Trends & Innovations Report
Mobile Trends and Innovations 2016: A Schieber Research presentation prepared by our NYC office analyst, Meital Yachin, for Carmelon Digital Marketing, as part of the Carmelon company's commitment for keeping its customers up-to-date on all things digital....
Premium Positioning: Rapha Clubhouse
The Rapha cycling brand positions itself as an aspirational brand, pricing clothing at a premium price point. To defend this positioning, the company launched about a dozen hub in major fitness cities around the world, offering limited edition items, a cafe and...
Birchbox Retail Strategy
The birchbox sampling concept needed a physical store to support trial - which, in the digital retail world, might be the most important role for a beauty retailer (as selling and service can be easily replaced). The store offers sample boxes for men and women, in...
Barnes & Noble Aims to Surprise
Can you take the excitement and impulse purchase effect of subscription boxes into traditional industries? Barnes and Noble (our home away from home) certainly thinks so. The retailer has recently introduced the Mystery Box concept in stores, describing the genre and...
The Persil / Zip Jet Collaboration: Not just about Data
The Unilever / Zip Jet collaboration, featuring Persil's brand on the ZipJet laundry by demand app, is perceived by analysts as another step towards data collection, allegedly similar to the Dollar Shave Club acquisition. But there is much more than that. Unilever,...
The Stress-Free Principle: What Companies Should Know and Do
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