This page has links to interesting articles covering FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) and Grocery in particular. It also has links to useful global sites, a page devoted to Australian and New Zealand sites and Online Grocery Shopping sites. If you would like to list your site here contact Promax.
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- Account Management
- Category Analysis
- Associations, Publishers and articles
- Category Management and ECR
- Demand planning, Forecasting and VMI
- Grocery
- Legal
- Online shopping
- Australia and New Zealand Grocery
- Marketing and Promotion
- Sales Opportunities
- Strategic
- Supply Chain Management
- Territory Management
- Trade Spend
Account Management
- Australian & NZ Grocery Annual Reports Outstanding Annual Report pdfs.
- Aldi (Australia)
- Aldi (USA)
- Aldi (USA) A report about price marking complaints.
- Aldi International
- Australian Grocery Facts from Scott Brokers.
- RetailWire (USA) A free site for retail industry professionals, registration is necessary.
- Promax Promotional Evaluation Our FREE web-based promotional evaluation tool.
- KamCity (UK) Asite designed specifically for FMCG Business Managers.
Category Analysis
- Canadian Agri Food Trade Service A list of research studies.
- Food and Beverage Industry Distribution Channels Analysis USA markets.
- McKinsey Quarterly Reports A range of articles.
Associations, Publishers and articles
- About.com Grocery retailing list of articles.
- Centre for Retail Management Kellogg Faculty Research
- ECR Europe Publications.
- FMI Food Marketing Institute
- Food and Drink (UK) Hosted by William Reed publisher of The Grocer.
- Food and Consumer Product Manufacturers of Canada
- Food OnLine Interesting site, biased to food manufacturing issues.
- FoodWorks NZ food, beverage & grocery industry portal, also covers Australian issues.
- Grocery Manufacturers of America
- Grocery Manufacturers of America Huge publications list, available at a price.
- GrocersNews An interesting site containing a lot of food news.
- GroceryRetailOnline A portal which might well grow into a useful resource.
- Insight Research (UK) Researcher of Grocery Issues with some free reports.
- Institute of Grocery Distribution (UK)
- KamLibrary Interesting articles from KamCity.
- Marketing Online (CA) Primarily a members only site.
- Progressive Grocer (USA)
- Promo Magazine of Promotional Marketing.
- Agriculture and Recource Economics Library A list of resources.
Category Management and ECR
- Category Management by the USA Joint Industry Project on Efficient Consumer Response. (An incredible pdf resource. Originally hosted by Ernst & Young, but appears to actually belong to the G.M.A. Neither has responded to requests to relocate this file, so it is being offered here as a free service,until we are advised otherwise, contact Promax if you would like a copy.)
- Gladson & Associates Press Room.
- Kurt Salmon Associates Topical.
- Minding the Store ECR update by Cio Magazine.
- Productprofitability.com Category management industry newsletter and forum.
- Category Management Articles by Win Weber.
- Why Category Management Fails By Professor John McCann.
Demand planning, Forecasting and VMI
- Forecasting items with long lead times By Jon Schreibfeder.
- Forecasting the future demand of products By Jon Schreibfeder.
- Inventory articles By Jon Schreibfeder.
Grocery
- Australian Food News Directory of Australian food companies and organisations.
- Fooddude USA An excellent source of links.
- FMI USA Food Marketing Institute list of members links.
- FMI USA Food Marketing Institute list of resources.
- Only Australian Groceries Only Australian Groceries sells Australian owned and made grocery items and delivers anywhere in the world.
Legal
Online shopping
- Attention Shoppers An article by Penelope Patsuris of Forbes.
- Home Grocery Shopping via the Net, is there a future? A university dissertation.
- Online Grocery A full page of links by Country.
- MyShopping.com.au is a comparison shopping service on the web.
- Polo Shirt Online Company
- WA Leading Online Grocery
- Organic Body Products
- Health Advisers
- Online Groceries by Aust Company
- Beauty Child and Home
Australia and New Zealand Grocery
Marketing and Promotion related
- A guide to Econometrics Measuring sales effects of TV Advertising.
- Baseline Modelling of Scanner data By Professor John McCann.
- Deathwish Marketing in Action By Professor John McCann.
- Is Advertising still Salesmanship? By John Philip Jones, Professor of Communications, University of Syracuse.
- The Decomposition of Promotional response By David R Bell.
- Loyalty Schemes (the consumer strikes back). Getting rid of loyalty schemes.
- The Mirage of Promotional Lift By Geoff Cutler.
- For a quick outline of the Planning Framework By Geoff Cutler.
- The Co-Marketing Paradox By Professor John McCann.
- The Post Promotion Dip - does it exist? By Professor John McCann
- Why Promote? By Geoff Cutler.
Sales Opportunities
Strategic
- The Progressive Grocer Why online shopping will work.
- Vertical Restraints in EC Competition Policy A green paper.
- Wal-Mart's ankle biters How hard discounters compete against Wal-Mart and thrive.
Supply Chain Management
Territory Management
- 80:20 it is not! By Geoff Cutler.
- IFUM The importance of matching call rates to customer size by Porter Henry.
- When brokers can offer a lower cost merchandising service By Geoff Cutler.
- Who is minding the Store? Supplier funded, third party merchandising in the USA.
Trade Spend
