The McKinsey Quarterly

2000

• February 2000 

  Making a meal of Europe’s food-and-drink business

  Consolidation could create more than $100 billion in net present value in the fragmented European food-and-drink industry-and that makes restructuring almost inevitable.

1997

• May 1997 

  Packaged goods: It’s time to focus on product development

  The best performers organize around four separate development missions. New products and line extensions require different processes and different performance metrics. A common mistake: not setting priorities across product groups.

• February 1997 

  India’s sleeping giant: Food

  Producers should worry less about elite consumers; As Indians’ purchasing power increases, they will demand quality in basic foods; An integrated response can transform the huge inefficiencies into opportunities

1996

• November 1996 

  Satisfying America’s changing appetite

  Virtually all of the $100 billion increase in annual food sales expected in the United States in the next decade is likely to come from food service. To take advantage of this dramatic shift in eating habits, restaurant operators, packaged-food manufacturers, and the entire US food distribution system will have to make significant changes.

1995

• February 1995 

  Salesforce Management: Packaged goods salesforces - beyond efficiency

  Up to 30 percent return on spending. The movement toward account profitability.

1992

• February 1992 

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• February 1992 

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