Canada is a pet-loving country. As per the Pet Food Association of Canada, 63% of Canadians owned pets in 2020, with at least one dog or cat in the household - translating into more than 7.7 million dogs and 8.1…
Category: Retail
Sales platforms in Canada that don’t start with ‘A’.
Well this is disheartening. Reuters recently published an article detailing allegations about Amazon's "systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India." And it isn't just a question of buying counterfeit branded…
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What’s happening in Canada’s grocery stores.
The pandemic has ushered in changes in many Canadian industry sectors - including food retail. The Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship's recent report Shake-up in Aisle 21: Disruption, Change and Opportunity in Ontario's Grocery Sector examined what's happened in…
New info about private label opportunities in Canada.
There are more reasons why companies might want to consider private label as a route to the Canadian market. We posted last year about the opportunities available via private label (a blog post which not only made it to the…
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Digital growth for SMEs.
COVID-19 has challenged the retail models we've known for so long. In Canada alone, eCommerce sales in May 2020 reached a record CAD $3.9 billion - a 2.3% increase over April, and almost double the eCommerce sales for February (CAD…
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