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Our July/August edition sees the return of ESM's annual Europe's Finest report, celebrating the most innovative new stores and refurbishments across Europe. In addition, we meet Ken Murphy, chief executive of Tesco;?we chat to Bel Group CEO Cécile Beliot-Zind, a pioneer when it comes to promoting healthy snacking; we learn about Nestlé’s e-commerce ambitions, and a lot more besides.?
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The chief executive of Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland, JP Scally, is to take up the role of CEO of the discounter's French operations on 1 August.
Scally (left), who has worked with the retailer for more than two decades, previously held the role of operations director at Lidl France, before heading home in 2015 to lead the Irish operation.
As the chief executive of Lidl France, Scally will be responsible for more than 1,600 stores and 46,000 employees, with Lidl France currently in expansion mode.
According to the most recent Kantar data for the French retail market, Lidl grew its market share by 0.4 percentage points in the four weeks to 7 July, to hold 7.8% of the market.
Lidl Ireland has announced that Robert Ryan (right), who currently holds the position of chief customer officer, as well as sitting on the company's board, will take up the role of chief executive for Lidl Ireland & Northern Ireland, effective from 1 August.
Ryan joined Lidl Ireland & Northern Ireland in 2003 and has experience across a variety of roles, from sales operations manager to regional managing director, chief operations officer and, most recently, chief customer officer.
With sustainability – both environmental and social – embedding itself into the day-to-day operations of retailers and consumer goods firms, corporate transparency and accountability is increasingly in the spotlight.
As an organisation that brings together industry leaders from retail and CPG, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has played an important role in fostering collaboration and action when it comes to tackling issues related to sustainability, as firms face up to the challenges in their supply chains.
Such is the growing importance of this topic, that Didier Bergeret, sustainability director at the CGF, is understandably kept busy, heading up three of the Forum's Coalitions of Action – the Forest Positive Coalition, Human Rights Coalition, and Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative – each of which are committed to driving positive change.
At The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit in Chicago, ESM editor Stephen Wynne-Jones caught up with him.
Inflationary pressures and the cost-of-living crisis have had a notable impact on consumer preference for private-label products, the latest edition of the EY Future Consumer Index has found.
While initially, 28% of consumers said that they were buying more private label over branded products in response to rising costs, EY's findings suggest that this has become a sustained habit, with two thirds (66%) say that they find that these less expensive alternatives satisfy their needs just as well as their branded equivalents, while close to two thirds (38%) said that they have no plans to switch back to branded items.
EY's research also found that this trend is not excessive to shoppers in mid- to lower-income bands.
Higher income consumers plan to buy private label brands across various categories in the future, including fresh food (60%), home and household care (56%), packaged food (52%), clothing, shoes, and accessories (49%), personal care (49%), and beauty and cosmetics (39%), EY noted.
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There are few dairy snacks as iconic as Babybel, the playful portion-sized cheese treat first launched by Bel Group in the late 1970s, and ever present in school lunchboxes in the years since.
It’s one of a host of products launched by the French firm – along with the Laughing Cow, Kiri, Babybel, Boursin, Nurishh, Pom’Potes and GoGo squeeZ (not to mention 30 local brands), which collectively generated sales of more than €3.64 billion in 2023 – that have sought to challenge conventions within the snacking segment.
As well as being an FMCG powerhouse, Bel Group – under the guidance of chief executive Cécile Beliot-Zind – is seeking to transform the food system to better serve global health and environmental concerns.
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