Unable to shake-off the moniker Whole Pay Check and with lower-priced stores like Trader Joe’s and Sprouts eating into its share, Whole Foods has decided enough is enough and is launching a new chain of stores with lower-priced products.
Founders of startup companies often focus on their product/offering and their business/distribution structure. Both though are expressions of the question that every startup should really be asking itself first: “What will we be valued for?”
I admit it – I called them for dead. I thought Blackberry was gone. I think a lot of us did. But if this article in AdAge is more than just hype on the part of the company and its ad agency, perhaps that call was premature.
There are many considerations that should be very much top of mind for all brands that are merging or acquiring companies. A successful fusion will be determined by how well brands think through and act on these four areas:
The usual awed hush descended on the Apple World Wide Developers Conference stage in San Francisco on Monday. After a long pause the ever-casual Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, strode onto the stage. “History has had a very rich history of change, some of which we have a part in,” he announced before playing a film about the development of music for the assembled audience.
