Pepsi powers
PepsiCo the giant food & beverages marketer to consumers and business with $65Bn in sales continued to outperform its rivals in excellence & ethical trading in Q4'18
#SPLODGE: FTC
Starboard Value chief Jeffrey Smith appeared on CNBC today to comment on his investments in Staples, Office Depot & Yahoo. He was less than convincing about his constructive interests... updated
#SPLODGE: King
The former CEO of Sainsbury’s Justin King has resigned from the board of Staples, in protest at its capitulation to activist investor Starboard Value,
Starboard force
Staples has accepted Starboard Value's nominee Kunal Kamlani to its board, a move that prompted a rebuke from another director...
#SPLODGE: Will
The Staples takeover value of Office Depot was $11/share. Today the share price is stuck at $9.24. Is the market having doubts about the FTC decision? Will Staples sell off the toxic contract division to appease them?
Bezos’ Ice Bucket Bigbox Challenge1 Sep'14 (Updated)
Last Friday, we visited the new Seattle headquarters of 'Relentless Robin Hood' himself Jeff Bezos. Amazon has increased its workforce to 130,000+, 25000 of which work in the South Lake Union district. Here follows the 12 points Q&A session
Relentless.com aka Amazon30 Jun’14 (Complete 19:00ET)
The current issue of The Economist and yesterday, CNBC-TV focused on the ‘Everything store delivered same-day’ phenomenon we know as Amazon. We discuss and analyse their reports here...
Amazonification! How much is it really hurting?No matter how much we beat the drum about the Amazon threat on OP wholesalers’ and resellers’ lifeblood, the majority don’t seem to get how deeply damaging the beast has become? Apologies, follows this morning
A m a z o n ‘ s27 May’14 (Complete)
Over the past 40 years most independent dealers' response to bigbox/massmarketers has been to try and match size/buying power. The most successful progressives have done the opposite with huge success…
Amazon attack accelerates again
13 May’14 (Updated)
Forbes’ next feature article is headed “Amazon’s Wholesale slaughter’;Industrial Distribution is running a June conference on ‘Facing the Amazon attack’;Proficiency Post has warned about the #AmazonEffect for 8 years as 'Godzilla' eats OP dealers' and wholesalers' lunch. The press is getting it, will dealers?
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