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COVID-19 in-depth insights

Hear from IGD’s analysts and industry leaders as they present their latest thinking on how Coronavirus (COVID-19) is changing the food and grocery industry in these webcasts.

JD.com on omnichannel retailing in China: exclusive interview
28/09/2020
Alexander Kremer, a director in JD.com’s Omnichannel Supermarket Group, shares his view on impact of COVID-19 on the business, how JD.com has established omnichannel offerings to meet shopper needs and ways that Western brands can adopt to enter China
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Southeastern Grocers’ CEO on planning for the next phase of the pandemic
02/07/2020
We speak to Anthony Hucker about business planning and what’s front of mind in his discussions with CPG partners.
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COVID-19: agile and flexible stores of the future
25/06/2020
We explore why we believe the physical store will need to become more agile and flexible to survive in both a rapidly changing world, as well as to accommodate extreme trading cycles.
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Navigating beyond Coronavirus – how could health and wellness evolve?
15/06/2020
Watch this video to discover how health and wellness trends could evolve in a post Covid-19 world, along with our latest shopper insights and the implications for the short and longer term.
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Navigating beyond coronavirus – how could sustainability evolve?
14/08/2020
In this video, we join two of IGD’s experts to explore IGD’s five hypotheses of how sustainability could evolve, examining and suggesting implications for now and in the longer term
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COVID-19: Impact on global convenience trends
11/06/2020
We highlight the impact of COVID-19 on our five key global convenience trends, with examples from around the world and implications for you to consider.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): the outlook for CPG suppliers
08/06/2020
Hear directly from Stewart Samuel, program director Director, North America, Ray Leung, strategy solutions manager and Jon Wright, head of retail insight – EMEA, discuss the themes which are front of mind for product suppliers.
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Bestway’s MD on current challenges and future growth for wholesale
04/06/2020
In an exclusive interview with IGD, Bestway’ Managing Director for Wholesale Dawood Pervez shares how his customers – convenience stores and independents have had to adjust their offer in the face of COVID-19.
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How COVID-19 will impact experiential store format development
04/06/2020
Georgia Main Food Group has developed one of the most engaging store formats in North America. We speak to the company’s Marc McCurdy to learn how the coronavirus pandemic is shaping the business’ thinking around future store development.
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Recession: how 2020 differs from 2008
27/05/2020
Hear directly from IGD’s chief economist James Walton, head of UK retail insight Laura Jacobson, and senior shopper insight manager Michael Freedman as they share their expert opinions.
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How Co-op has reacted to the challenges of COVID-19
26/05/2020
In an exclusive interview Co-op's Commercial Director, Matt Hood shares how Co-op have reacted to the challenges of COVID-19 and where he sees the opportunities for suppliers to help plan for the future.
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Interim grocery channel forecasts: US, China and UK 2020
22/05/2020
Hear directly from IGD analysts as they explain the thinking behind the channel shifts in our newly released forecasts for 2020.
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Planet Organic on the future of food-to-go: exclusive interview
20/05/2020
IGD spoke to Food Service Director Caroline Ottoy from Planet Organic in this exclusive webcast.
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Paul Mills-Hicks on Sainsbury’s commercial priorities
12/05/2020
In an exclusive interview IGD spoke with Sainsbury’s Commercial Director Paul Mills-Hicks
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in-depth insights: Learnings from growth channels
30/04/2020
In this webcast, you’ll hear how the growth channels, online and discount, will be impacted by Coronavirus (COVID-19).
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How is Amazon consumables responding to COVID-19?
28/04/2020
Exclusive interview: In this 8 minute webcast you’ll hear directly from James Bate, Director in the Consumables department of Amazon UK.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in-depth insights: Future of Retail – part two
24/04/2020
We look to the future and how retail will look post-Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the second part of our ‘How Coronavirus (COVID-19) will change grocery retailing’ webcast.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in-depth insights: learnings from Asia
16/04/2020
In our third Coronavirus (COVID-19) webcast we explore how the pandemic has impacted retail across Asia and five key learnings we can take from the region.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in-depth insights: Future of Retail – part one
09/04/2020
In the second of a weekly webcast series IGD analysts look to the future and how retail will look post-Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in-depth insights: Shopper Tracking and Confidence Index
03/04/2020
Rhian and Michael share a round-up of the latest insights into the attitudes and behaviours of shoppers and launch our Shopper Confidence Index.
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