CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Consumer prices for goods and services rose 7% in December, the fastest pace since 1982, spurring the Federal Reserve to begin raising interest rates in March. Luxury companies have been taking advantage of surging demand to reposition their brands as even more exclusive and costly, according to industry executives and analysts.

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Navigator SAP

MAY 27, 2022

There’s an element of consumer trust when it comes to the consumption of food or medicine. Usually, consumers cannot detect if a drug they’ve purchased has been manufactured correctly, or if it contains what has been advertised. Businesses in these industries need to understand GMP and what is required.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Consumer Price Index (CPI)— released by the U.S. It was a very good report,” he explained. While rising food prices harm consumers, there’s no policy lever that the Fed has to usefully target these. Bureau of Labor Statistics —rose 0.1% in November, and the all-items index increased 7.1% year-over-year. economy. “On

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Consumers remain the cornerstone of the U.S. economy with real consumer spending accounting for about 70 percent of real GDP and about 80 percent of real domestic demand. The second indicator to change trend in October was the real new orders for consumer goods indicator. percent pace in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 2.1

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Economics Manufacturing Sales Construction 130

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The acquisition also would let Microsoft position its gaming business as an on-ramp to the metaverse, a future vision of the internet that has been heavily hyped within the tech industry. As the gaming industry prepares for the adoption of subscription-based business models, acquisitions of gaming studios have been heating up.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This projection extends the timeline for volume recovery in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, which experienced a slowdown in the December quarter. Kantar, a global research firm, predicts a further decline in demand for daily groceries, essentials, and household products in India over the next few quarters.

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Marketing 52

Future CFO

JANUARY 30, 2024

Rajiv Biswas Near-term outlook The near-term outlook is for continued strong growth in the ASEAN region in 2024, driven by resilient domestic demand and some improvement in exports of goods and services. Demand for industrial electronics is also expected to grow rapidly over the medium term, helped by Industry 4.0,

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And second, be wary of what self-interested trade groups say about their industry; they are lobbyists and cheerleaders, not seekers of truth.1 Whether its simply walking out with goods, doing smash & grabs or otherwise cheating self-checkouts, it’s the second largest source of retail theft, and a pernicious challenge to all retailers.

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Retail Profit and Loss Forecasting Accounting 141

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

But success requires more than good intentions. Saur, based in France, is a leading service provider in the global water sector with an ambition to ensure that industries, individuals, governments, non-governmental organizations, and civil society appreciate the value of water and use this precious resource accordingly.

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CFO News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

HUL is not alone, with other leading stock exchange-listed consumer goods companies such as Colgate-Palmolive and Marico also expanding their advertising spend by 26-32% year-on-year in the September quarter.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Southeast Asian companies have the ability to go beyond their shores for cross-border IPOs, Deloitte said, as this due to expectations of favourable valuations, enhanced liquidity, industry comparability, and investor familiarity with certain sectors.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 9, 2024

Continued strong expansion in domestic consumer markets in large APAC economies, notably China, India and Indonesia, will be an important factor supporting further growth in intra-APAC trade in raw materials, intermediate goods and final manufactured products. The positive medium-term outlook is supported by a number of factors.

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Economics Manufacturing Forecasting Marketing 52

CFO News

MAY 16, 2023

While ONDC has a significant number of users and daily orders of consumer goods and food deliveries since its launch in 2022, it has a long way to go to match the technological and service capabilities of industry heavyweights, such as Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato, Swiggy, and Big Basket.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Bloomberg ) • Boeing is a wake-up call : America’s businesses gambled that ‘greed is good.’ Now courts, consumers, and some brokers are fighting back. ’ Now they’re losing that bet, big time. Business Insider ) • Office Towers Reshaped US Skylines. Now Construction Cranes Are Vanishing. Maybe Not for Long.

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Construction Economics Banking Marketing 65

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

To that end, said Matt Good, senior vice president and general manager of Elan Advisory Services , in an interview with PYMNTS, fledgling ways to pay — where wearables are wielded as payment instruments, and where mobile wallets replace leather ones — will soon become everyday methods. Frictionless Payments.

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CFO News

MARCH 28, 2023

Puri expects the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry to bounce back by volume sales growth from the next fiscal year, led by rural demand, with early signs of recovery already visible. Puri said the revival will be accelerated, with inflation cooling down and product prices correcting.

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CFO News

APRIL 3, 2023

A year earlier, sales had grown at a higher 18% for fast-moving consumer goods and 30% for electronics and durables, mainly due to a lower base of the previous year on account of the Covid-19 restrictions and lockdown, according to industry executives and Bizom, which analyses data based on orders at kirana stores.

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CFO News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The value of fast-moving consumer goods retailed in December rose 1.4% Electronics categories grew 8-10% sequentially, according to industry executives. from the last month, according to Bizom that analyses data based on orders at kirana stores.

Retail 52

Retail 52

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 4, 2023

During that time, consuming lots of academic research, I reached a few logically supported conclusions. Perhaps even more surprising has been the wholesale abandonment of specific industries: Food service, retail, etc., I have been writing about issues with the minimum wage for (it seems like) decades.

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Economics Retail Data Analysis 145

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Over the weekend, Reliance Industries – the company owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani – purchased Future Group ’s 2,000 retail stores and the Big Bazaar grocery chain. billion consumers. “At Such sellers then offer goods on Amazon.in Whole Foods has 497 stores. at big discounts.

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Retail Valuation eCommerce Manufacturing 105

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2021

Sucharita Kodali , a former Saks executive who now is an analyst at Forrester, told the Financial Times, “Consumers won’t buy from retailers in the first place if they don’t like the return policy.”. People are taking more risks with the goods they’re buying online,” he said, according to the Financial Times.

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Math Retail eCommerce Sales 108

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 13, 2023

My morning train reads: • Stocks Took an 18-Month Round Trip From Tech Bear to AI Bull : The same handful of megacap names that led the market down have been powering the latest surge. A wide range of musicians are heading back to the studio to retrace the past and reclaim ownership of their work. ( “This is worrying news for the planet.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

s lockdown measures were lifted, consumers went out shopping for various products, including home-related goods like sofas. The Confederation of British Industry ’s (CBI) latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey pointed to grocery stores as a big contributor to sales growth. As the U.K.’s As a result, U.K. Finance reported.

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Sales Retail Finance eCommerce 101

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

No one likes stockouts — certainly not consumers. But as has been reported by The Wall Street Journal, bottlenecks are becoming an impediment to getting goods where they need to go and toward satisfying consumer demand. Or the retailers who sell things to them.

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Transportation B2B Retail Numbers 108

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

That has many consumers suddenly realizing that being surrounded by a growing collection of mismatched shoes or occasionally losing the car keys in the refrigerator is simply no way to live, pandemic or not. Many consumers are tuning in, logging on and expending an increasing amount of money to clean up their homes. is now upon us.

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Entertainment Retail Sales Numbers 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

BNPL refers to the practice of allowing customers to pay for goods in installments, usually four smaller increments. Openpay focuses on "industries where it can make a real difference," the release stated, going on to list the healthcare, automotive, home improvement and education sectors. according to a press release.

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B2B Healthcare Education Accounting 122

Future CFO

MARCH 31, 2022

The top ESG issue: Climate Climate change is among the top three ESG issues in terms of expected financial impact for all eight industries captured in the survey except one (health care) and it holds the number one slot for consumer, industrial goods, energy, and utilities, INSEAD pointed out.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

"Organizations with high levels of customer loyalty outperform their competition, so it's critical that they provide their customers with valuable and memorable experiences to build trust," David Schmaier , CEO of Salesforce Industries, said Tuesday (Jan. 12) in unveiling the company’s new Loyalty Management product.

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Sales B2C Prioritization Retail 111

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The pandemic has changed all kinds of things about consumers. You’ve seen very responsible behavior from consumers since the start of the crisis — the rise of credit debt being paid down,” Laplanche said. You get rewarded for doing what is good for you, and what you should be doing in any case — [paying down] your balance regularly.”.

Economics 98

Economics Finance 98

Bramasol

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This new episode in our ongoing series on the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) provides an overview of how DSE is impacting the transportation industry. Previous episodes in this series include DSE in the Medical Device industry , DSE in Utilities industry , and DSE in the Energy Sector.

Transportation 89

Transportation SAP IFRS Compliance 89

Anaplan

MAY 14, 2021

A new all-in-one solution addresses the consumer goods industry's multi-channel revenue planning challenges across multiple lines of business.

Planning 59

Planning Manufacturing Sales Marketing 59

CFO Simplified

AUGUST 18, 2022

Days’ Inventory = 365 / (Annual Cost of Goods Sold / Inventory). Days’ Payables = Accounts Payable / (Annual Cost of Goods Sold / 365). Some companies use monthly or quarterly calculations to account for business cycles, seasonality, industry, etc. Days’ Receivables. Please note the above calculations are based on a full year.

Accounts Payable 105

Accounts Payable Invoicing Accounting Sales 105

The Charity CFO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

manufacturer, distributor, consumer processes.) Logistics for Good Travis and Tosha explore the realities of logistics in the ecommerce industry. Another logistical scenario that they are proud of is called ‘Reverse Logistics for Good.’ Because of this, they] are stuck in different areas and that is problematic.’

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Nonprofit Profit and Loss Math CFO 97

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Here’s the thing: Grilling your own steak has its charms, but nothing compares to sitting down at an honest-to-goodness steakhouse for the supreme Paleo-feast. Good for them, because high-end restaurants serving the finest cuts have been hammered this year. alone, the industry lost six million jobs in March and April.

Sales 101

Sales Communication eCommerce Retail 101

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It has been a good year for connected fitness company Peloton. That massive bump was driven by fitness-oriented consumers who have increasingly turned to connected bikes and treadmills to rebuild their exercise routines at home in a world where going to the gym feels a bit like a risk to one’s health.

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Forecasting Sales Manufacturing Startups 84

Bramasol

MARCH 10, 2023

This episode in our ongoing series on the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) provides an overview of how DSE is impacting the electronics industry. For example, customers may choose from different subscription tiers, discounts, etc.

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SAP Manufacturing Compliance Leverage 86

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

High-end goods reseller Marque Luxury is bucking the trend of moving away from brick-and-mortar sites, augmenting its online platform for used designer handbags, accessories and jewelry by adding showrooms in New York and other major U.S. Quentin Caruana, founder and president of Marque, which buys and sells used designer goods.

Retail 59

Retail Sales Manufacturing Marketing 59