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Here's the click-through enticement of recent 'discovery' for a supposedly hitherto unseen colour. The provided facsimile above apparently in no way does justice to the visual experience. Well, the first thing to say from our Sales perspective is that this would prove a useful slide backdrop for anything we pitch

There's a famous trope for a B-school 'innovation' module slide. A table where every row represents a specific sector. With two columns for each; one for market-maker, the other for second-in. Discussion revolves around where the long-term advantage lies. For each case, the follower became the Number One. You can

Here's some intriguing stats from a major UK retail sector. As reported by Harry Wallop back in Dec 23; 'Mintel ... figures show that ['23YTD] only 16pc of food and drink launches have been genuinely new products (rather than reformulations or new flavours), down from 21pc in 2019 and 40pc in

Over the festive period a cooking innovation tickled my new product antennae. Always keen to see how a self-styled disruptor promotes themselves, the pot as seen above on the right is positioned as far superior - in one respect an astonishing 80% so - to the old school option on

I say smash hit but, according to their UK Chief Exec, I could equally say divorce-maker. For apparently the 'middle at Lidl' phenomenon that is their ever-changing selection of all manner of weird and wonderful household items can cause domestic ructions. “We often get partners at odds with each other

A half-dozen sentences from a London broadsheet [sub'n req'd] live blog of Ukraine defending themselves against Russia. Those early 'indications' fatally held true. Let's take that sign-off line; transitioning from Soviet-type jets to Western jets was like “going from using a Nokia straight to an iPhone without all those steps