In this episode, we speak with one of the UK’s top grocers, Sainsbury’s and Nectar360,  the Loyalty, Insights and Retail Media business owned by Sainsbury’s. After some rollercoaster years, we are changing phase and really going into a truly omnichannel world where it’s more exciting, but also harder than ever, to find the consumers where they are and send them the right message. We are joined by Rachel Clark, Grocery Director at Sainsbury’s and Amir Rasekh, Managing Director at Nectar360 to...

Find out more about the Women in Retail Media Collective: Website: https://wrmcollective.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-retail-media-collective/ The industry is changing, with the emergence of digital making a huge impact across the board. So what better way to go deep into this than with the digital advertising and marketing industry association in Europe, The IAB? In this episode, we welcome their Industry development and Insights Director, Marie-Clare Puffett,...

The Very Group is the UK’s Online Pure Play Department Store. Tom Goulden, their Director of Trading, Insights and Analytics joins Daniel live from Retail Media Summit UK 2024 in London to speak about how they’ve recently revamped their Retail Media offering with SMG, how their unique categories trade online and much more.  Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0_kphm0x-XA   Topics Covered: Tom’s career in Retail The Very Group’s unique value proposition as a pure-play Department Store...

In the ever evolving world of Digital FMCG, one of the most exciting areas is quick delivery. In this episode, we are joined by Suzy McClintock, VP New Verticals at fast commerce leader Deliveroo. That means, essentially, managing all the parts of the business except for their classic restaurant deliveries. In this episode, recorded in person in their London office, we explore the opportunities for Grocery and High Street in general in on-demand. Topics covered: Suzy's unusual career from...

Our guest is Aseem Puri, CEO at Unilever International, the white space division of the FMCG giant. He joins the show to speak about how there’s plenty of room for growth for Consumer Goods companies if the right entrepreneurial approach is taken. He also speaks very frankly about his self-development and leadership journey, which includes recently writing 10X Productive, a book about getting the most of life in the age of distraction and social media. Find Aseem’s book here:...

Kristina von Troschke is the Chief Marketing Officer at Germany-Based Toy company Schleich. You may know the brand through it’s realistic animal models, which you can find worldwide and many have fond memories of. In a time where technology has had an impact on everyone’s lives, we often overlook at the impact screens have on kids’ development. In this episode, we’ll explore how going back to toys can foster kids’ imagination and, most importantly, key social skills like compassion and...

Our guest for this episode 200 is Rick Swinkels, CEO at TCC. The head of the Loyalty company joins Daniel and Peter Bond from The CPG Guys live from Groceryshop in Las Vegas to speak about his unique career, his industry insights and how their loyalty programs deliver exponential value beyond price, creating communities around Retailers.  Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xJOotPI7Jkc TCC Website TCC LinkedIn Topics Covered: Rick’s career in Retail prior to TCC TCC’s proposition:...

Isabel Soriano is the President International at Wolverine Worldwide, a Footwear leader with a portfolio of famous brands like Saucony, Merrell and Sweaty Betty. With more than 20 years in the category, Isabel comes to the show to speak about the lessons learnt during her career path, which has seen her move internationally, change functions, companies and, ultimately, become a C-Level executive who has been successful managing organizations in both good and bad times. Tune in to learn...

Our guest is Christin Schillo, Social Media Director for Siemens Home Appliances at the BSH Group. With a background in Procter & Gamble, she joins Efrain and Daniel to explain her transition from FMCG to Large Appliances, how Marketing has changed and how to get the most out of Social Media Marketing, blending in new trends like AI. Topics covered: BSH’s footprint Her career background and how she decided to take a sabbatical The differences between heading up Marketing in FMCG...

The FMCG Guys celebrate SMG's rebranding revisiting this episode from May 2023 with their CEO Sam Knights and Ollie Shayer from Boots. Retail Media has really made an impact across the industry in Europe in the last year. To bring the voice of the Retailer to the show, this week we bring you Ollie Shayer, Omni-Media Director at Boots and Samuel Knights, CEO at SMG. Tune in to learn about: Best Practices when setting up a Retail Media Network How FMCG companies can better leverage this...

Georgina Hernandez, eCommerce Manager International and Benedikt Vogler, Director Global eCommerce CHC join Daniel at STADA's Barcelona office to speak about the state and opportunities for Consumer Healthcare online. Transitioning from FMCG to Consumer Healthcare and learnings on the way STADA's unique DNA and Culture based on Heritage, Purpose and Growth Deploying global initiatives locally and working effectively across functions What Retail Media looks like in the Pharmacy Channel AI...

The FMCG Guys are joined in this episode by Levi Strauss & Co.'s SVP Northern Europe Lucia Marcuzzo. In this episode, which was actually recorded in person at Shoptalk Europe we cover aspects of Retail, Career Building and Leadership, such as: - Lucia's career in Retail - Cross-functional moves  - The evolution of Retail - Leadership with purpose - Moving internationally - Managing different types of people - What a brand stands for, with the example of Levi's - Building trust

Jennifer Conley is the Head of Media Solutions North LatAm at PedidosYa, a Latin American online food delivery service that allows customers to order food from restaurants, pharmacies, supermarkets, and stores. With a background in FMCG, she joins Christine and Daniel to speak about her journey, LATAM and her perspective on Retail Media.  Topics covered: Jennifer’s career path: moving from FMCG to Retail What’s exciting about PedidosYa: a LATAM Q-Commerce plya FMCG Trends in Latin America...

Our guest is Pierre-Yves Calloc’h, Global Chief Digital Officer at Pernod Ricard. He joins Daniel and Christina to share his unique career path, which started as a Consultant, later climbing the ladder in IT, taking a bold switch to General Management (with a move to Latin America included) and for, the last years, heading up the Digital Agenda, first leading the commercial agenda and now looking into new business models. Tune in to hear about: - Making cross-functional and geographic...

While FMCGs' growth has come to a major halt in Europe and North America, what's going on in Asia? In this episode, we are accompanied by Management Consulting Leader Kearney's Head of Consumer for Asia Sid Pathak, with who we go over what's keeping CEOs and GMs up at night when it comes to being successful in the East. Tune in to learn about: Kearney as a firm and Sid's scope there The ups & downs in South East Asia GM/CEO top priorities: Growth, Talent and Digitalisation A look into...

Marlies Gebetsberger is the SVP and Head of Philips Personal Health Western Europe. In this episode, we explore how their portfolio, based on the Philips innovative DNA, has a real impact on people’s lives. We also reflect on Marlies’ learnings during her career and the leadership she’s developed: Compassionate Candor, a philosophy based on caring personally and challenging professionally, always with the ultimate success of people in mind.   Tune into this conversation to learn about: ...

With a background in companies like Accenture, Procter & Gamble, Boston Consulting Group, and Google; it’s safe to say that not many people have Eric Gregoire’s experience. Now the VP of Global Strategic Marketing & Digital Transformation at Bayer Consumer Healthcare, he comes to the podcast to speak about how he’s grown his career between Marketing and Digital while making decisive moves that give him have a unique point of view on business today and tomorrow. Tune into this episode...

Peak season is just around the corner. With Prime Day, Singles Day, Black Friday and Christmas later on. We invited Nabil Malouli, who heads up eCommerce at the one of the world’s largest logistics companies, DHL, to better understand how the best companies in FMCG and Retail are preparing for the an upcoming peak season with many topics on the table: inflation, post-covid, excess inventories… and more. Here are some of the discussion points in this conversation: How best in class...

Our guests in this episode are Nick Hinsley, Chief Revenue Officer at the unified Retail Media Network Platform, Zitcha; and Jack Johnson, Head of Retail Media and Data at UK-based Online-only supermarket Ocado. They join the podcast together to speak about how they are teaming up to launch the exciting Retail Media Network Ocado Ads, which aims to be the most flexible network in the market, and a blueprint and model to follow for other Retailers. Tune in to learn about: Ocado’s position...

The CPG Guys are joined by Neel Arora, Global Head of eCommerce at Nestlé, the world's largest food & beverage consumer goods manufacturer. Joining PVSB in co-hosting this episode is FMCG Guys host Daniel Torres Dwyer. Follow Neel on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neel-arora-60912130/ Follow Nestlé on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nestle-s-a-/ Follow Nestlé online at: https://www.nestle.com/ Listen to Neel's first episode of the CPG Guys...

In this episode, we are joined by two executives representing two of the most important companies in Foods: Jaime Liriano, Head of Marketing Northern Europe at General Mills and Iñigo Garcia, Director, Global Insights & Analytics at McDonald's. With them, we take a deep dive into how these two companies capture food trends and then add them to their respective portfolio and menus. Tune in to learn about: Current food trends Spotting new food trends How an FMCG player like General...

Mercado Libre is, undoubtedly, the eCommerce leader in Latin America. Headquartered in Argentina and the clear dominant in the 2 key markets, Brazil and Mexico, they have been able to beat very famous foreign competition during years. Their CMO and Head of Ads, Sean Summers, joins us to speak about their key success factors and what the future holds for them, with the added context of Retail Media’s boom. Tune in to learn about: Sean’s international career in FMCG prior to joining Mercado...

Andreas Reiffen is a staple name in the Consumer Goods eCommerce world. As the CEO and Founder of Crealytics, he launched the industry’s first retail media Supply-side Platform. Now, after the big boom of Retailers' own Networks, he's ready to change the game in with his new venture: Pentaleap, a spin-off focused designed to enable an open, efficient Retail Media ecosystem. In this conversation you'll hear about: Andreas' background as an entrepreneur Why he's decided to start Pentaleap...

Our guest, Hannah Skardon, has a remarkable career in Fast Moving Consumer Goods: fast, international, and cross-functional. With that background, she’s taken the challenge of leading Retail Media at the company where she’s grown her career: Reckitt, the leading Health & Hygiene company. In this episode, she joins Efrain and Daniel to speak about her learnings in going from local to global and back again, moving countries and, now, facing the challenge of winning on the digital shelf. ...