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...Consultancy AT Kearney believes plant-based meat will eventually have a 30-40 per cent cheaper shelf price than real meat, although it says that achieving this will require consolidation that will help drive...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 9 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...“If I’m selling individual items for just $4 or $5 each, the shipping on that is going to eat me alive,” said Greg Portell, partner at the consultancy Kearney....
...Chart of the week Consultancy Kearney has released its annual foreign direct investment confidence index....
...Additional reporting by Nikkei staff writer Coco Liu in Hong Kong A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 18 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc....
...Some global technology groups that have upended AT Kearney’s clients’ businesses are posing a threat, too: “The company that has hired the most people from Kearney now is Amazon, maybe outside one or two...
...“When they entered in 2016 they were already too late,” said Adheer Bahulkar, partner at AT Kearney. “It never really worked.”...
...“Give consumers a reason to care about your brand and your product,” said Greg Portell, a lead partner at the consultancy AT Kearney....
...AT Kearney, a consultancy, has found that in developed markets the shift to contactless increases the number of transactions per card by 20-30 per cent....
...Manny Maceda took over as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company at the beginning of this month....
...“The sense of wonder that kids have when they look at toys is an important part of the shopping experience,” said Greg Portell, retail consultant at AT Kearney....
...Click-and-collect and same-day delivery services are becoming a basic expectation of shoppers, said Randy Burt, a partner in the consumer and retail practice of consulting firm AT Kearney....
...Warehouses are putting on a beauty pageant in the hope of building a reputation as a “shipper of choice”, says Josh Brogan of AT Kearney, a consultancy....
...In this analysis of the ranking, they jump above AT Kearney and PA, which achieved no six-star ratings....
...This issue is “not easy to fix overnight”, said Shekhar Chauhan, principal at AT Kearney....
...“This is likely the season where we all move past talking about retail in trouble,” said Greg Portell, partner at AT Kearney. “Retail as a sector is healthy and vibrant....
...Indeed, companies have been alerting shopping to pre-Black Friday deals and companies like Walmart, Target, Macy’s and Best Buy have begun to open their doors with doorbuster deals on Thursday as they battle...
...Competition is expected to increase as cable companies enter the market....
...But companies will have to move quickly to compete with the might of BlackRock and Vanguard....
...Cathy Kearney, vice-president of European operations for Apple, told an EU panel in March that it pays “every cent of tax that is due” in Ireland but argued that tax laws have “not kept pace with the evolution...
...Now evidence has emerged, in a recent Brookings Institution paper by William Gale, Melissa Kearney and Peter Orszag, that increasing the top marginal tax rates for those in the 95th percentile and upwards...
...This figure could be as high as US$2.2tn by 2020E, or 5.6% of total investable assets at that point (source: AT Kearney)....
...“It’s like localisation 2.0,” says Torsten Stocker, Greater China retail partner at AT Kearney, referring to KFC’s long-term strategy of being highly localised on China....
...This is part of a two-week executive training course organised by London Business School for partners from around the world at consulting firm AT Kearney....
...Kearney, the professional services firm, says it is too soon to predict the demise of one of the mainland’s most famous brands....
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