Category: Agribusiness, Meat, & Other Food
Should the meat industry care whether Amazon or Walmart wins?
But none of it matters. Sure its fascinating to see it all unfold, like a real time case study on business strategy. But should the meat industry care whether Amazon or …
Read ArticleThe Critical Component to AgTech Data? Humans.
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Read ArticleUber is kicking the meat industry’s ox tail
More specifically, pricing for both meat and rides is the direct reflection of the current state of supply and demand. But when it comes to execution of optimized …
Read ArticleThe Amazon’ment of meat has arrived
This should serve as a giant flashing neon sign to the entire meat supply chain that Amazon is now in the game. As companies prepare to compete, supply, and/or partner …
Read ArticleIt’s not 1870 and prices won’t win the long game.
The main storyline — regardless of the commodity — is gaining market share by competing on price. That is the path to empire building. Or at least it was back then. But …
Read ArticlePassive Price Taker or Active Price Strategist - You Choose
Setting aside your willingness to accept the premise that your product is undifferentiated from your competitors (topic for another day), let’s look at the two pricing …
Read ArticleWill Amazon Enter the Meat Industry? Spoiler Alert: They Already Have.
If Amazon’s approach to other sectors is indicative of the approach they will take to grocery, they will force competing retailers to ask much more of their suppliers. We …
Read ArticlePeople Need the Bacon: 4 Questions to Consider in Market Uncertainty.
For companies whose profit margins are impacted in some way by the pork belly market (processors, further processors, retailers, distributors, foodservice) that 80% price …
Read ArticleWhether You Call It Trading or Not, Your Company is Taking Market Positions
Introduction: Market Risk at Commodities-Driven Companies When an investor buys a stock, she is taking a position, placing a bet on the stock’s value going up so that she …
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