Over the last few months I have been spending a lot of time on high streets up and down the UK. Maybe others have noticed the transition over many years – but, for the first time, I observed a massive shift from...

As of late, we’ve seen many articles chronicling the demise of brick-and-mortar stores, painting a dim picture of the future of traditional retail. We don’t believe that the only way forward for stores is a complete...

By the end of the year, there will be just three pub companies left in the FTSE 350. Spirit and Punch have already been sold to Greene King and Patron / Heineken respectively, and both Ei and Greene King are in the...

The food industry is currently undergoing a meaty transformation. Plant-based dining is surging and major fast-food chains, CPG business and retailers are scrambling to keep up. According to Kantar, a total of 4.4...

As the world is rallying to promote greener initiatives, so too do we see the flowering of the cannabis industry. And on a scale we have seldom seen before. Cannabidiol, or CBD, is popping up everywhere, from skin...

Compared to other sectors, hotel operators seem to come under little scrutiny from a sustainability perspective. Indeed, one might be forgiven for thinking that their part to play in building a sustainable future is...

Any excuse for me to go home to South Africa and as luck would have it, this year the Condé Nast International Luxury conference was held in Cape Town in a fabulous venue overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. What started...

Our very first assignment in the beauty sector was for the world’s biggest global consumer corporation in what was then called the Personal Care division. Now, the term personal care, whips up ideas of self-care,...

It’s perhaps difficult to remember a time before the now-ubiquitous whirring sound of Toyota Prius hybrids shuttling busy people around the world’s cities, but in reality Uber is just 10 years old. The company,...