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HelloFresh Sees Growth Pick Up After Rise In Q2 Core Profit

German meal-kit maker HelloFresh said that it expects growth to re-accelerate in the second half of this year, as it reported a 31.5% rise in its second-qu...

Artificial Intelligence To Play Increasingly Important Role In Food And Beverage

Artificial intelligence (AI) will become an increasingly important industry in the food and beverage sector over the coming years, a new study has found, r...

Ocado Sees Return To Underlying Profit In First Half

Ocado, the British online supermarket and technology group, kept its financial guidance for the year as it reported a return to underlying profit in its fi...

Amazon Needs To Offer Better Discounts To Maximise Prime Day's Potential

As Amazon's annual site-wide Prime Day sales period gets under way, GlobalData has said that the online giant needs to present a more compelling promotiona...

Enhancing The Customer Experience The Top Priority For Retailers And CPGs, IBM Study Finds

Enhancing the customer experience is the number-one priority for 51% of consumer products CEOs and 53% of retail CEOs, a new survey by the IBM Institute fo...

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang To Resign To Focus On Cloud Business

Alibaba Group said its CEO and chairman Daniel Zhang will step down from the roles to focus on its cloud division as the Chinese e-commerce giant moves ahe...

IBM’s Elaine Parr And Sevgi Koklu On How Technology Can Be A Sustainability Enabler

Elaine Parr, Senior Partner and Vice President Consumer Industries, IBM, and Sevgi Koklu, Managing Director Global Sales, IBM Technology, share their insig...

Grocery App Getir In Talks To Take Over German Rival Flink: Report

Turkish delivery app Getir is in talks to take over German rival Flink in a key step toward consolidation in Europe's food delivery market, where companies...