Tuesday’s Webinar Q & A
Thanks to everyone who attended Clavis Technology’s webinar on Tuesday. There were a few excellent questions from webinar attendees that we thought we would share in our blog post this week. For anyone...
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Clavis Technology, a leading cloud technology company, is planning to hire more than 20 additional staff for its expanding development centre in Dublin, Ireland. Recruitment will commence this month...
View ArticleeCommerce and Transparency
Increasingly consumers like to know more and more about the food they eat and where it has come from. Clarity is essential, according to Phil Lempert, Editor-In-Chief of Supermarket Guru and...
View ArticleBeauty is in the “i”
The rapid growth in online sales and eCommerce presents a number of challenges for personal care and beauty products manufacturers, not least of which are the issues of brand protection and margin...
View ArticleThe Online Beauty Battle
eCommerce appears to have something else up its sleeve in the battle for consumers’ health and beauty dollars. A radical change in the rules of “prestige” pricing when it comes to web sales could come...
View ArticleWeb Influence On Grocery
An October 29th report by Forrester Research has singled out the Grocery business as one of four categories that will be impacted most by the internet and cross-channel sales between now and 2017....
View ArticleNiche Brands & the Online Shelf
Marketing and media industry bible Ad Age didn’t mince words in September’s report on Sanford E. Bernstein’s study on eCommerce in the fast moving consumer goods sector (FMCG). If its ominous sub-head...
View ArticleOnline Merchandizing
Shop.org has just released a study conducted by Forrester called: “The State of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing and Merchandising”. One aspect of the report that we found most interesting was the...
View ArticleOnline Potential in New Markets
Weak infrastructure and political instability is acting as “a catalyst for innovation and new consumer behaviors” in emerging markets, according to a recent report by digital analyst firm eMarketer....
View ArticleFood Trends for 2014
Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert recently released his list of food industry predictions for 2014. We were intrigued by three important digital trends that Lempert says will have an impact on consumer...
View ArticleeCommerce Market Disrupting Traditional CPG/FMCG Category Management
Consumer Packaged Goods/Fast Moving Consumer Goods (CPG/FMCG) suppliers and retailers have developed increasingly sophisticated category management processes in the few decades since the concept was...
View ArticleOnline Category Management: Push Becomes Pull for CPG/FMCG
As we noted in our blog online grocery has reached a tipping point in the US, as the market seems poised to match digital penetration levels seen in the UK, France, and China. To take advantage of the...
View ArticleWill Online Grocery Shopping in the US Go Mobile?
We know that CPG eCommerce has reached its tipping point in markets across the world. According to Kantar Worldpanel, South Korea leads with online at 10% of FMCG sales. In Europe the UK and France are...
View ArticleWalmart.com Evolves to bring Marketplace Competition to the ‘Buy Box’
Walmart.com appears to be have made a big change in how it handles marketplace listings, getting more like eCommerce giant Amazon in the process. Until recently Walmart’s core site and the Walmart...
View ArticleWhich US Retailers Provide The Clearest Path to Purchase Candy Online
For the U.S. Candy category, along with a number of other grocery categories in the market, a major issue is that retailers are still struggling to ship candy products purchased online. There are...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Chinese eCommerce to Make More Cents
Recent weeks have seen a flow of news from China pointing to continued stellar growth in eCommerce in what has become the world’s largest retail market. Global fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands...
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In a Rush to Serve Shoppers – Amazon Prime Same Day and 1 hour delivery
Amazon is making same day delivery free in 14 metropolitan areas to those who pay the $99 per year for Amazon Prime membership. The cities include major metropolitan centers like San Francisco, New...
View ArticleClavis Insight Forum Emphasizes Move from eCommerce Strategy to Action for...
The Clavis Insight Europe Middle East and Africa Forum, which took place in London last week, was attended by eCommerce leaders from some of the world’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods...
View ArticleThe Two Missteps Which May Have Spoiled Amazon Prime Day
By mid-Prime Day, the social media tide had turned against Amazon, with consumers mocking the deals on Pop Tarts, shoe horns and Walkman’s on Twitter. Prime Day clearly offered far more deals on a...
View ArticleBuilding the Case for eCommerce: 3 Reasons to Over-Invest Now
Building the Case for eCommerce: Three Reasons to Over-Invest Now If you are tasked with leading the eCommerce charge in your organization, you already know that there are a number areas where...
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