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Toll Future Logistics Webinar | What will ocean freight look like in 2023? from Toll Group on Vimeo.

Watch the webinar to find out what our supply chain experts have to say.

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Born from the Backcountry // Vanderham and Sandler Scout, Build and Ride a New Alpine Trail from Freehub Magazine on Vimeo.

British Columbia’s Kootenay mountains contain some of the world’s most unforgiving—and beautiful—terrain. The peaks, ridges and valleys of the region are remote, extensive and rugged, creating the opportunity for a backcountry experience like no other. Less than four miles as the crow flies from Retallack Lodge lies Antoine Basin, a heavily mined, yet seemingly untapped valley, especially when it comes to trailbuilding. Born from the Backcountry, a new film from Freehub Magazine, follows Thomas Vanderham, Veronique Sandler and the Retallack build crew as they spend a week camping and creating in this place of endless potential.

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Five Factors contributing to the rise of the Farmpreneur

Five Factors contributing to the Rise of the Farmpreneur! #farmersmarkets #familymatters #trust #middlemen #co-ops #international business #strategy #growth #food #goingdirect #fail #sale #farmer #valuecreators

Working as international business consultants we are increasingly exposed to Farmpreneur businesses who are taking modern approaches to selling and marketing their valued added branded food and beverages, creating value from farm to table through direct marketing their produce from paddock to plate. So, what, this is not new I hear you say?  Been happening for some time, has it not? Ever heard of…

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Export - Triumphs & Tribulations

Export Triumphs & Tribulations - Keynote talk and panel discussion at Australian Craft Brewers Conference 2017. Thanks to the panel @MarzenHajjar - @Hawkers Beer;  @CorrinaSteeb @Prancing Pony; @CallumReeves @KaijuBeer; @BenGiles

Keynote talk and panel discussion at Australian Craft Brewers Conference 2017 in Adelaide.  Special thanks to the Independent Brewers Association of Australia and our esteemed panel of guests Marzen Hajjar – CEO/Founder at Hawkers Beer;  Corrina Steeb – CEO and Co-Founder @Prancing Pony; Callum Reeves – Chief Boss @KaijuBeer; and Ben Giles – Senior Trade Advisor at Austrade who shared their…

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Build your Beer Brand and Business Internationally

Build your Beer Brand Internationally - http://www.australiancraftbrewersconference.com.au/sessions/export-strategies/

Before you send your beer outside your home country and build your brand and business internationally there are a few critical decisions you need to plan.  We will share those key decisions and discuss in more depth with 3 Australian craft breweries – Kaiju Beer, Prancing Pony and Pirate Life exporting around the world at the upcoming Australian Craft Brewers Conference in Adelaide on Thursday 27…

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Is your Innovation disciplined or are you simply dreaming up new ideas?

Is your Innovation disciplined or are you simply dreaming up new ideas?

10 Things to Think about before you try to Innovate What is Innovation? Does a new idea qualify as an innovation?  Not in my mind. Does in it quality as innovation in your customer’s mind?  Not if it does not create economic value for your business or your customers.  An idea might be creativity but the rubber hits the road when you make real changes to the value chain that creates economic value…

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Think Inside the Box

Think Inside the Box - small is the new BIG! Tell your story with Technology #food #startup

Think Inside the Box – Where is your Food Coming From? Strolling the many beautiful aisles of BiG (Ben’s Independent Grocer) in Kuala Lumpur earlier in the year with an awesome Aussie food client I was suddenly struck by one product that jumped right off the shelf and slammed me in the face!  Amongst a sea of 50,000+ products (the average number of skus in a supermarket) and BiG is one of the…

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Think Past Product when You Think about Disruptive Innovation

Are you still spending 90% of innovation $/people/time on NPD - Why? #doblin #10types #disrupt

Author: Dermott Dowling @Creatovate (2016). Now more than ever we need to think past new products and improved product performance when we think of truly ‘#disruptive innovation’ that upsets incumbents in industries and creates sustainable competitive advantage for the disruptive innovators. How many types of innovation can you think of?  Have a go…write them down below as many as you can…can you…

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Sustainable Farming, John Foss from The Chia Co on Vimeo.

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Kelly's Chia Shop from The Chia Co on Vimeo.

When the surf's not pumping at Pipeline, what's a Pro to do? We gave Kelly the chance to try out another line of work, with his own pop up Chia Shop.

Swapping his surfboard for an apron, Kelly spent the morning serving Chia Pods to the North Shore locals - sharing his passion for real food, essential nutrition, and how important diet is to his performance as an athlete.

Kelly eats chia every day, and reads the ingredient panel of everything he buys. Read more at thechiaco.com/kellyschiashop

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Chia Pod 2014 from The Chia Co on Vimeo.

In 2014 we took Chia Pod to the world. From our Chia Pod Van Tour in the US, sharing 85,000 Chia Pods at more than 190 events, through to street events in the UK and major sporting competitions in Australia. We also launched 16 new breakfast products, building on our goal to make healthy breakfast foods more convenient. In August, we joined the likes of Moet Chandon and Mercedes Benz as the sole Health Food sponsor of the 2014 US Open.

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Can BIG FoodCo Think! Act & Adapt like a Startup?

Can Big FoodCo Think! Act & Innovate like a Startup in 2016? #innovate #startup #food #live

Concept of small business running fast! Is it just us or does it seem today that the small food companies are moving faster than ever before and the big companies are moving more slowly when it comes to innovation in our local food industry?  Perhaps you and I are not alone in our thinking? The literature and newswires in the US have been awash with stories of “the war on big food” (Kowitt, 2015)…

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Think, Act, Adapt and Innovate like a Startup!

Think! Act! Adapt & Innovate$ like a Startup! Large companies’ size and culture make disruptive innovation extremely difficult. Despite this challenge many large food businesses today recognise the need to be disruptive innovators and test new business models in the digital world.

Large companies’ size and culture make disruptive innovation extremely difficult (Blank, 2010). Despite this challenge many large food businesses today recognise the need to be disruptive innovators and test new business models in the digital world.   Why change? Because the bat is coming… Change is coming, it’s here now and there are many ways businesses can react to change.  They can duck and…

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Why do elephants find it hard to dance? It’s not just the tech sector that is startup crazy - technology is a key enabler of disruptive innovation in every industry, and food and beverage is no exception.

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Putting “I” first in Insight to Innovation

Putting “I” first in Insight to Innovation. Insights are valuable both to existing businesses in their existing categories and markets and to new entrants. I’s are important in Innovation and starting with the first one – an Insight is a great place to start a value creation journey to innovation pay dirt.

Welcome to the first in a series of posts as we travel the journey from insight to innovation.  Our plan here is to share some ‘insights’ ironically behind what differentiates the businesses that succeed in finding an insight, generating compelling new product or business ideas and concepts from their insights and taking them through a systematic process to innovation in the market place.

Before…

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When to enter new markets?

When is it a good time to enter new markets? Today, Tomorrow, Next Year? Never?

First and foremost we stood back and used our head as well as our heart to determine Where to go? 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.  Secondly, we looked at each market on our Market Opportunity Index© and worked through the appropriate market entry model: Export, Contractual or Investment?  Last, but not least we need to time phase our market entry over the coming horizons of growth so that we can competently…

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How to enter new markets…Investment modes of entry

How to enter new markets…Investment modes of entry

Investment modes of entry are the most significant in terms of investment of your resources – $, people and time and correlating to that can be your most rewarding and risky entry mode.  Following on from the all-important Where to Go?Question as you plan your international business growth strategy is the “How to enter new markets?” Question.  In this our third post of our How to enter new…

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