Time, Tools, and Competing Priorities If you’re a retail buyer, you know all too well the complexities and demands of your role. You’re balancing inventory, trends, customer demands, and more, all while ensuring your decisions […]
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Companies continuously seek ways to drive revenue growth and improve profitability in an ever-evolving business landscape. One increasingly popular strategy to achieve these goals is through Joint Business Planning (JBP).
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In the early 1990s, legendary Texas Grocer H-E-B was faced with a challenge. The retailer was growing rapidly, but so were its competitors. To stay ahead, H-E-B needed a strategy that would streamline operations, enhance
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In most instances, business negotiation is simply a problem-solving exercise. You have unmet needs you believe your counterpart can satisfy, which is why you engaged them in the first place. Likewise, your counterpart has agreed
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Jason from the podcast Drivetime with DeRusha talks to Daniel Duty and Will Davis, co-founders of consulting firm Conlego about why we’re not seeing lower prices at the grocery store as other inflation markers drop. To
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Sometimes retailers and brands could use a little help aligning on a joint strategy, business plans or innovation paths. Sometimes they could use some help when dead-locked on a way to solve a problem they share,
Daniel Duty discusses the current price tug-of-war between supplier and retailers in an article from the Star Tribune titled “In tug-of-war over prices, grocers seek to wrest some control from food companies”. To read the
The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry has seen robust financial performance in recent years. Unilever reported its highest annual profit in six years in February 2023 (per Reuters), while Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Nestlé
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Negotiation is an opportunity to explore whether one (or more) parties can effectively satisfy goals and top-priority unmet needs while creating increased value. In other words, WINNING. Naturally, your counterpart is also seeking to satisfy
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A White Paper from Conlego Daniel Duty, CEO, and Mark Mathews, Senior Engagement Manager. Conlego recently met with leading brands and retailers at Cornell to discuss the current state of difficult affairs between retailers and
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