(c) 2012 Convergence Alimentaire blog image I cut my FMCG marketing teeth at Unilever and ended my full-time global food & drink industry career at Kraft/Mondelez. I now run a healthier drinks startup business alongside a global innovation consultancy where I work as an "extrapreneur" supporting companies wanting to remake their portfolios to better fit emerging consumer needs for healthier products......so I am perhaps in a unique position to give a point of view. If you are Dutch or British, you feel closer culturally to Unilever and few folks living here in the UK will have forgotten Kraft's poor treatment of people & assets post Cadbury's acquisition. However, the reality is that the vision and values of both companies are not so dissimilar and both are facing the same fundamental shifts in consumer behaviour & needs in relation to "big FMCG/CPG" brands in both developed and the "developing" world. Is Warren Buffett (a Kr...
FMCG Innovations and Trends by Sophia Nadur