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07 Apr Lessons Learned: 21 Days of COVID-19 Communications in the Consumer Goods Sector

Posted at 18:18h in DSM Outlook

Lessons Learned: 21 Days of COVID-19 Communications in the Consumer Goods SectorOn March 16th the first email arrived from a client asking for help in communicating critical information about the Coronavirus. Two days later, another. A few days after that, another. Then the signing of...

07 Aug The Long and Short of It: Are Food Companies that Placed Enormous Bets on Values-Based Food Production About to See a Big Payoff?

Posted at 15:38h in DSM Outlook

Globally, 108 million children between the ages of five and seventeen are engaged in farming, livestock, forestry, fishing or aquaculture, putting their safety at risk and infringing on their human rights, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations....

Posted at 08 Mar, 15:29h in In The News

Is the grocery sector prepared for the artificial intelligence revolution?

14 Mar Paradigm Shift: Defining a New Role for Food Trade Groups in an Era of Disruption

Posted at 15:18h in DSM Outlook

Paradigm Shift: Defining a New Role for Food Trade Groups in an Era of DisruptionThe word “disruptive” has become a buzzword in today’s culture. Long used in a negative light, it has been adopted in business to describe innovative companies that challenge the status quo...

Posted at 07 Aug, 15:28h in In The News

The politics of food: Are regulation, transparency and consumer trust on a collision course?

26 Apr Are We About to Reach the Third Wave of Food Consumerism?

Posted at 21:58h in DSM Outlook

Are We About to Reach the Third Wave of Food Consumerism? As I sat in a sun-drenched conference room overlooking Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood and the Potomac River on a clear cold winter day in 2003, a newly appointed senior health and wellness executive from one...

15 Sep Red, Yellow or Green? Score-carding Your Advocacy Communications Capabilities

Posted at 13:55h in DSM Outlook

Red, Yellow or Green? Score-carding Your Advocacy Communications CapabilitiesThe Obama Administration has issued more than 20,000 new regulations and 235 Executive Orders since it came into office in 2009. The 114th Congress has passed more than 200 new laws since called into session in January...

24 Aug Data and Time: An Interesting Paradox for Food Interventionists

Posted at 16:37h in DSM Outlook

Data and Time: An Interesting Paradox for Food InterventionistsBy the end of the 1990’s, as data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mounted, society reached consensus that obesity had reached epidemic proportions among children and adults. Likewise, everyone agreed on the negative impact obesity...

04 Jan How a “Fail Fast, Fail Often” Culture Can Sink Your Trade Association

Posted at 16:23h in DSM Outlook

How a “Fail Fast, Fail Often” Culture Can Sink Your Trade AssociationIf you are expecting this column to talk about how successful trade associations are member-driven, aligned with member objectives and “listen carefully” to their members, you can stop reading right now.I want to take...

20 Nov A Clear View of Food Transparency Starts with an Honest Conversation

Posted at 14:25h in DSM Outlook

A Clear View of Food Transparency Starts with an Honest Conversation “I want food companies to tell us the truth about what’s in our food and I can decide what is best for me.’’ Those were the words of a Louisiana food shopper at the recent...

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