A key date in the US calendar, the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, took place this week in Florida, with a number of the major names in the sector outlining how they are navigating a sector going through a period of profound change. Elsewhere, results for 2015 continued to come in, with Nestle and Arla Foods among the companies publishing their performance. Click on the links for the stories behind the quotes.
“The global dairy industry has rarely been as tough and unpredictable, and 2015 has unfortunately been as challenging as we anticipated. We have an extremely difficult task ahead of us in 2016 as global milk supply still exceeds demand. We do expect that the global market will begin to turn for the better towards the end of 2016” – Arla Foods CEO Peder Tuborgh, reporting the co-op’s annual results, says trading conditions in the dairy sector could improve later in the year.
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“It’s not a Hail Mary pass; there are a set of structured thoughts behind how we get this business back to growth. Pace is always going to be a challenge for us. I think we are doing the right thing. How quick it all comes may be a challenge but we are not talking one year or another year here, we are talking quarter to quarter how it [growth] comes back” – Paul Norman, the head of Kellogg’s operations in North America, tells the CAGNY investment conference the company has put the wheels in motion for recovery at under-pressure unit Kashi.
“We continue to believe that Nestlé has to accelerate its optimisation of capital allocation, divesting under-performers, and re-allocating the resources to the champions. The competition has increased in the past months, both on local and global levels” – Vontobel analyst Jean-Philippe Bertschy after Nestle reported 2015 results and 2016 guidance that fell below expectations.
“We believe that defining the future of real food requires new approaches, new business models, smart external development and an ecosystem of innovative partners” – At CAGNY, Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Co.’s CEO, explains why the company has set up a vehicle to invest in food start-ups.
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“We have shifted our current commodity focus outside of the US in order to realise our potential, and it starts with the consumer. We’re moving from simply supplying customers to meeting consumer needs. And we’re moving from a past focus of how do we take what we do here and make it work there, to there as our starting point” – Sally Grimes, the head of Tyson Foods’ international business, explains how the US meat group has changed the way it views doing business in China and India, its two key international markets.
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