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Cereal Makers Aim To Move From Sweet Tooth To Healthy Profit

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So get ready for quirky marketing, quirkier products, retro strategies and decidedly futuristic pricing as the business contends with a downturn. cereal market has lagged recently, with a slight uptick in 2019. Nutritional content is a primary concern for new product development in mature markets such as North America and Europe.

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Taco Bell Embraces Fast Food’s New Decadent Reality

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In 2004, documentarian Morgan Spurlock released “Super Size Me.” It’s taking its Premium McWraps, the signature “healthy” item designed to keep foodie millennials from abandoning it, and 86ing it from the menu. ” Four years later, “Food, Inc.” ” hit the silver screen.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

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Grubhub founders Matt Maloney and Mike Evans wanted to solve a simple problem in 2004: make it easy for consumers to order food from local restaurants and have it delivered. Big, Little Online Market Share. Grubhub today has an $11 billion market cap with 15.4 with online orders maybe reaching $20 billion, or 10 percent.

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Mortgage Tech 101: What It Is & Why It’s Taking Off Now

CB Insights

The impact of tech on the mortgage market is still in the early innings. Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert’s innovation in mortgages was to assign regional-specific loan application reviewers, who familiarized themselves with the regulations of certain geographies. This helped navigate fragmented regional regulations.

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Closing the Case for Customer Centricity & Digital Transformation

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The rate of auto insurance loyalty has fallen to 48% today from 59% in 2004, a 27% drop; over the past year, the rate of switching among insurance shoppers has increased to 35% from 31%, helping to drive down overall insurance customer retention by two percentage points to 88%. Determining Motive.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness. That, of course, minimizes the importance of innovations such as the telephone or electricity, which, like Facebook, are technologies upon which innovations were developed and then commercialized.

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