A Snapshot Of Deloitte’s Global Powers Of Retailing 2012
Saturday, February 4th, 2012Deloitte recently published its Global Powers Of Retailing 2012 Report. This report provides a global retailing outlook, highlights key trends and analyzes the top 250 companies in global retailing. Five key trends were listed in the industry. According to Deloitte, retailers will be continuing to look at entering emerging markets that are currently characterized by [...]
Why CPG Companies Could Soon Be Competing With Loblaw For Good Marketers
Thursday, January 12th, 2012You have probably already heard that the two largest CPG brands in Canada are 1) President’s Choice and 2) no name. Of course, these two brands compete in almost every category in the supermarket giving them an advantage over one-category wonders such as Pepsi or Lays. However, given that PC and “no name” are only [...]
Grocers And Vendors Giving Back This Holiday Season
Monday, December 12th, 2011I was in Superstore today and noticed an end aisle featuring a limited edition President’s Choice Blue Menu deluxe macaroni and cheese dinner. It was branded as Extra Helping and was $5 per box. Loblaw has partnered with the Extra Helping National Holiday Food Drive to try and raise $1.2 million and 1.2 million pounds [...]
Back To Campus – Canada’s Next Retail Event
Friday, September 16th, 2011For years we have been accustomed to signing Christmas tunes in August, as Staples owned the share of voice for Back To School with its “Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” television ads (even though in our opinion they dropped the ball by hiring a B-cast member of “Glee” for the 2011 campaign). Walking in [...]
Canada’s Retail Execs Have A Tidy Payday
Monday, May 30th, 2011There was an interesting compensation survey in Monday’s Globe & Mail that showed the top paid executives at Canada’s largest corporations (by market capitalization). Several executives at Canadian retailers made the cut with some rather big paydays given the tight operating margins of the retail trade. Below are the retail executives that appeared in the [...]
Updates: SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review
Friday, May 20th, 2011We are pleased to announce that updates are now available for 16 Canadian Retailers in our SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review. In this popular report we feature 23 of the largest publically traded retailers in Canada in concise one-page snapshots which highlight the key achievements over the past year and a glimpse at their [...]
Target Looks To Reach $6 Billion in Canadian Sales
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Reuters reported this week that Target will be looking to achieve $6 billion in turnover at its Canadian operations as it looks to grow to a $100 billion company in six or seven years time. Target CFO Douglas Scovanner also seemed to give the first indication that the store count in Canada could reach up [...]
SINS Canadian Mobile Shopping Apps Review
Sunday, March 27th, 2011The internet revolutionized shopping over the past ten years by breaking down the walls of the store, allowing shoppers to access the store 24/7, compare products and prices across retailers, get feedback on product performance through on-line reviews and to make a purchase and have product delivered directly to their door. Music, books, video, travel [...]
SINS Market Visit Report – Five Great Ideas That Vicente Trius Might Bring to Loblaw
Sunday, March 20th, 2011Recently, Loblaw announced that it had appointed Vicente Trius as the new President of the company taking over from Alan Leighton. Mr. Trius was most recently the Executive Director at Carrefour Europe and will probably be bring a few good ideas from Carrefour to Loblaw. Carrefour is not the world’s second largest retailer by mistake. [...]
Major Organizational Changes at Loblaw
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011Word is hitting the streets this morning of a major organizational change announced at Loblaw on January 25th. The changes affect over 50 positions / staff across the Conventional, Hard Discount / Superstore and Loblaw Brands organizations. There is a major game of musical chairs happening at President’s Choice Circle today! We have learned a [...]
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