You know the guy on your team who's always pushing back against unusual ideas? The gloom-and-doomer who's convinced that if it's different, it must be wrong? Could be he's just afraid of not succeeding at a new endeavor. Here's some food for thought to convince him that...
What could be worse for a company than for its main product to suddenly start making people sick for no discernible reason? More people are becoming more allergic to more things, and that includes food allergies. Food Business, a trade publication, reports that although the causes are...
Do you find that you are continually making business decisions, yet struggle to make significant progress on key issues? The job of managers is to make decisions and manage the related actions that improve the effectiveness of your organisation. But you can find yourself trying to sort...
When you're talking to a job candidate, do you ask what superpowers he'd like to have? No? Then obviously you're missing out on the newly anointed best practice of asking ridiculous questions in the name of thorough interviewing. It's not a new trend (Microsoft's been known for...
Coca-Cola and Cargill may finally have come up with something the food industry has been seeking for years: A "natural" zero-calorie sweetener. This week, the companies introduced "Truvia," a product made from the South American plant stevia, which has been used for decades in Paraguay and Brazil,...
The Find: The global middle class is set to more than double between 2000 and 2030 offering massive opportunities -- and massive challenges -- to managers at multinational companies. The Source: "The New Global Middle Class- Potentially Profitable but Also Unpredictable" in Knowledge @Wharton. ...
This is one of those on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand stories. The California Restaurant Association has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, seeking to strike down an ordinance requiring many restaurants – mostly of the fast-food variety – to post nutritional information on their menus and menu boards. ...
I was at a meeting yesterday in which salespeople were talking about their product, which saves major cash for customers. "They like it because they feel like they're sticking it to The Man," one said. The CEO looked puzzled. "Who is The Man?" he said. by Lisa...
Since fast food outlets started printing "Contents Extremely Hot" on drink cups, there haven't been that many opportunities to connect tea and car insurance. But here's an odd pair of stories that have something in common. An employee of a famous chain of more than 200 British tea shops died...
Some food companies are still making decent money, thanks mainly to their continued ability to pass costs along to consumers. But that could change quickly if inflation continues to worsen. Colleen Paulson of the Motley Fool notes that General Mills' fourth-quarter sales, released...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Producer prices rose a far larger-than-expected 1.8 percent in June as energy costs soared, but core inflation at the producer level edged up just 0.2 percent, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday. Economists polled by Reuters had expected producer prices...
By Martinne Geller NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pepsi Bottling Group Inc PBG posted better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as price increases in the United States and Canada more than offset a decline in volume. The largest bottler of PepsiCo Inc PEP drinks said...
(Reuters) - U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc BUD is in active talks to sell itself to Belgian brewer InBev NV INTB in a friendly deal, the New York Times said on its website, citing people briefed on the matter. One source told the...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday he expected food prices to remain above 2004 levels until at least 2012 and energy prices would also remain high and volatile. He repeated that with food and fuel prices in a...
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shares in Starbucks Corp SBUX fell almost 4 percent on Monday as investors worried about eroding sales at the coffee chain that is shuttering 600 underperforming U.S. outlets. The stock, which finished down 61 cents at...
You know how sometimes you suddenly keep hearing the same phrase over and over again? It's been that way for me this week with the so-called "80/20 rule." I keep stumbling over it in the media, and yesterday my friend even mentioned it over coffee. (Actually, she may have been...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Safeway Inc SWY on Thursday reported higher second-quarter profit as its sales rose and the grocer said it reduced costs. The company, which operates stores under the Safeway, Vons, and Dominick's names, said net income rose to $234.3 million,...
I caught a great post the other day from Shilpan Patel, who contends that brain maintenance is a must if you want to keep your gray matter in shape. Luckily, cranium care needn't be too taxing; he offers 14 simple ways to supercharge your brain. Among them:...
Coffee by itself is apparently not "fully charged" enough. So Coca-Cola has introduced "Full Throttle Coffee," which the company describes as "a creamy coffee and energy blend" that is "set to be unleashed in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Southeast regions this month before rolling out nationally in August." ...
