Land Strategies Blog

July 2009 - Posts

• How Market Research Can be Misleading – New Report on the Lamb Sector Overstates Sales Growth, and Opposed Views about Ethical and Premium Products

  We are continually advised to do research to connect with the market place, improve performance, or check out whether an idea has a good chance of working. Market research is indeed critical, but the information gathered needs to be interpreted with care... Posted Jul 23 2009, 02:37 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: NFU, IGD, Lamb - a Local Opportunity, Cohn and Wolfe [Edit Tags]

• Milk Drinking on the Up Despite Price Hikes

  DairyCo has just published liquid milk consumption figures for the 12 months to 14th June 2009, and they show some striking trends. All those concerned about the effect of price rises on consumers’ fresh milk buying habits need not have worried. Despite... Posted Jul 10 2009, 02:33 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, milk market [Edit Tags]

• Discount Supermarket Growth Slows - Is It All Over for ALDI et al?

  Discount supermarkets like Aldi and Lidl are making headlines again, but this time for sales slowing rather than growing. Editor of The Grocer, Adam Neyland wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago entitled “Is the discount boom over?” This was followed a... Posted Jul 06 2009, 10:37 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: ALDI, discount grocers, The Grocer, TNS, Netto, Lidl [Edit Tags]