Category: Agribusiness, Meat, & Other Food
Who loves your business like Texans love Buc-ee’s?
California has Yosemite. (more…)
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Be more than a meathead.
Go look at Cargill’s job postings and you’ll see almost as many job openings for data science & technologists as feedmill operators. It seems every other day there’s a new announcement about a food retailer acquiring or partnering with a food delivery business, meal kit service, robotics, facial recognition tech,...
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Spotify, Chick-Fil-A & digital data driven value chains
Chick-Fil-A announced plans to launch a meal kit product available at restaurants so consumers can skip a subscription service or a stop at the grocery store. Value chains of all types are reorganizing to be digital & data driven. In meat and poultry, the retail space is seeing it in...
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The Edge of the World (Cup)
Making investing decisions requires the same discipline around decisions that purchasing, sales, and pricing teams make every single day. So if that’s you, how are you finding your Edge? Here’s a great paragraph to consider: “Edge is a key element of Lux’s investment philosophy: Edge can derive from informational, analytical...
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Disney dares dynamic pricing; Will you?
You might be thinking, “But this is the meat business. To some degree pricing for even the most value added products are still tied to the commodity market and our customers are price sensitive, so this won’t work - we don’t have the flexibility Disney does.” I get it. There...
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