Chobani Opens a “Non-Greek” Front in the Yogurt Wars Since its founding in 2005, Chobani has grown into an almost $2 billion-a-year thorn in the side of the dairy aisle’s established giants. It introduced Americans to Greek yogurt by promoting its thick [...]
Big Oil Counts on Big Data for Bigger Profits In today’s U.S. shale fields, tiny sensors attached to production gear harvest data on everything from pumping pressure to the heat and rotational speed of drill bits boring into the rocky earth. The [...]
Lidl: The Next Wave in the German Grocery Store Invasion German grocery powerhouse Lidl (pronounced lee-duhl) arrived in the United States recently, opening 10 new stores along the East Coast and putting big-name companies like Walmart, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s on [...]
Adobe’s Cloud Subscription Strategy Creates a Profit Boom When Adobe Systems Inc. started the transition from a product-sales model to a cloud-based subscription model less than five years ago, the move looked risky. Skeptics figured it would eat into the rich profit [...]
Japan Could Lose a Third of its Population by Mid-century as Births Continue to Decline In the latest discomforting milestone for a country facing a steep population decline, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported that the country’s number of births [...]
The World May Come Up $400 Trillion Short in Retirement Savings by 2050 Longer life spans and disappointing investment returns will help create a $400 trillion retirement-savings shortfall in about three decades, a figure more than five times the size of the [...]
Young Homebuyers Face a Shortage of Good Schools for their Kids One effect of the U.S. housing market crash was to cripple homebuilders and their lenders, forcing construction workers to find jobs in other fields. Today, homebuyers have returned to the market [...]
Are Private Equity Firms Killing American Retailers? Traditional U.S. retailers are experiencing a tough year, with more than a dozen already having declared bankruptcy in 2017. The growth of e-commerce, as well as competition from European rivals such as H&M and Zara, [...]
Wal-Mart and Amazon Vie for America’s “Unbanked” Few retailers have catered more to the unbanked than Wal-Mart. Whether it is a dislike of banks, a distaste for their fees, or some other reason, a sizable portion of U.S. households have chosen not [...]
Is Coffee on the Brink? Coffee crops are under siege from deforestation, abnormally high temperatures, a lack of precipitation, and disease. The global market is heading for its fourth straight year of deficit, according to estimates from Rabobank International. At the same [...]