Over the last decade London has become a key hub on the world fashion scene – indeed, fashion is now so important to “brand UK” that even the Queen made a highly publicised visit to London Fashion Week just last...

We’re living in a golden age of ‘challenger brands’ – those agile, fast-moving brand start-ups that are shaking up the norms of FMCG. From Fever-Tree in the drinks category, to Kettle and Propercorn in snacking...

Like many of you, we at The MBS Group have recently gone through the process of revisiting our strategy and vision for the coming years as we crossed over from one financial year into the next. I always find it’s a...

Fever-Tree began, as many great companies do, in a pub. Founders Tim Warrillow and Charles Rolls had been put in contact by a mutual acquaintance and though they were supposed to talk about gin, the subject that really...

The market is on the move. British brands have always been an attractive prospect for international investors and recent times have borne that out, as Unilever and Weetabix demonstrate. The conditions seems right for a...

When prepared food and ready meals burst onto our shelves in the 1950s, they were revolutionary. As food writer Michael Fort notes, they were ‘impossibly exotic and exciting, they were magical things’. But, that...

Last winter, Sainsbury’s appointed Andrew Day as their Chief Data Officer. Such a significant C-suite appointment - one that was historically a subset of IT or marketing (and a first for the UK grocery sector) merits...

Primrose Hill must be one of the only wards in London with more pets than owners! Leaving our office, you are immersed in a sea of pets – especially dogs – of every breed, size, colour and personality – and, of...

I always love this time of year. Recharged after the break, and ready to leap into the new year, following the news out of CES – the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas – is a great way to find inspiration as we...