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As part of a strategic supply chain transformation initiative, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits turned to Ryder to revamp its inbound transportation and implement RyderShare™, a leading edge visibility and collaborative logistics platform. The solution led to significant improvements in visibility, accountability, and efficiency throughout Southern Glazer’s supply chain. RyderShare™ has revolutionized Southern Glazer’s operations and collaboration with suppliers and carriers by offering real-time visibility. This case study showcases the power of a dynamic, solution-focused partnership and its delivery of continuous improvement in the beverage distribution industry. Check out the case study!

Strategic alliances in the food and beverage sector are formal partnerships between companies to combine resources, expertise, and market reach. These collaborations advance SDGs and solve customer-centric issues. Smaller startups benefit from scale and routes to market, while larger players enhance their portfolios with new, relevant brands and cleaner products. 📊 Implications: 🚀 Innovation: Accelerate the development of clean, nutritious foods. 🌿 Sustainability: Implement sustainable practices at scale. 🤝 Shared Value: Create shared value across supply chains. 📈 Benefits: ⚖️ Equality: Provide opportunities for small startups and ensure fair market access. 🍎 Food Security: Expand access to nutritious and affordable food options. ♻️ Sustainability: Promote sustainable practices and reduce environmental impact. 💡 Solving Customer-Centric Issues: 🥗 Cleaner Portfolios: Offer healthier and more affordable sustainable product options. 🌐 Market Expansion: Reach new customer segments with innovative products. 💎 Value Creation: Enhance brand reputation and customer loyalty Potential Partnerships: 🍸 Spirits & Premium Mixers (e.g., Diageo + Fever-Tree/ Double Dutch) 🍺 Beer & Non-Alcoholic Alternatives (e.g., AB InBev + Athletic Brewing) 🥤 Soft Drinks & Health Beverages (e.g., Coca-Cola + GT's Living Foods) ☕ Coffee & RTD Beverages (e.g., Starbucks + La Colombe) 🥜 Snacks & Plant-Based Foods (e.g., PepsiCo + Beyond Meat biltong/ jerky) 🍗 Plant-Based Chicken & Fast Food Chains (e.g., TiNDLE + McDonald's) Mobilising Actions: C-Suite: 🔍 Identify Partners: Align with partners that support SDG goals. 🧪 Focus on sustainable and nutritious products. 📊 Impact frameworks to measure and report on sustainability impacts. 📉 Strategic Pricing: Develop pricing strategies to make sustainable products affordable. Policymakers: 🏆 Offer incentives for sustainability-focused collaborations. 🧪 Regulatory Sandboxes: Facilitate innovation through flexible regulatory environments. 💰 Fair Pricing Regulations: Implement regulations to keep prices fair and competition healthy, avoiding monopolies and oligopolies. ⚖️ Regulations; mitigate the 'Us vs. Them' phenomenon in food choices that lead to social dis-ease. Consumers: 💚 Support Responsible Brands: Choose brands that align with SDG goals. 🔍 Demand Transparency: Seek transparency/ accountability or vote with your feet. 💵 Affordability: Advocate for affordable pricing of sustainable products. By strategically pursuing these alliances, companies can address pricing, cost, and food security issues across multiple audiences and cultures while accelerating progress toward a more equitable and sustainable food system. What are your thoughts on the future of strategic alliances in food and beverage? How do you see them evolving? by Andrew Soteriou #StrategicAlliances #FoodAndBeverage #Sustainability #SDGs #GoodGrowth

Introduction to Business The Coca Cola Supply Chain Large beverage companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsico use a very large and complex indirect channel system to distribute their drink products. The Coca-Cola company has a very large and complex channel distribution system. After studying the content in Section 12.1, and watching the video be prepared to discuss the Coca Cola supply chain. Amazing! Let´s go?!

Navigating a complex supply chain in the dynamic world of wine and spirits distribution requires innovative strategies and a deep understanding of market trends. The wine and spirits industry is characterized by fluctuating, seasonal consumer demands, stringent regulations, and complex distribution networks.  To succeed, businesses must address these challenges head-on. One major hurdle is the lack of visibility and coordination across the supply chain, leading to inefficiencies and lost opportunities. As a leader in supply chain planning, Blue Ridge believes in sharing thought leadership to help businesses thrive in this competitive landscape.  Read our latest blog post here: https://lnkd.in/g_r7stpN to explore key strategies for overcoming these wine and spirits distribution challenges. 

𝖵𝗂𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗈𝖿 𝖺 𝗉𝖺𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗅𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗉𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗈𝗋 Year on year we are faced with increase in complexity and pressure on our People, our Organization, our Planet. The need to #change #how we work is crucial to sustain what we have and be better. One of the benefits of committing to Operational Excellence is the need to win every day and offer better value for our people, our customers, our consumers. To achieve that we need to have the best visibility of our processes and our equipment. We need to provide all the necessary tools and know-how to our People. 🧠🦾⚙ An element that needs to change is inefficiencies and losses we introduced with 🅟🅐🅟🅔🅡 long time ago when we didn't know better. Now we do. None of our People today using digital standards would go back to paper. Fact. 💯 #Digitizing and #connecting our Industrial environment, integrating it with our Business environment will unlock a 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚 of opportunities for us. It's quite a long journey we're on. #worldclass #organization

In another sign of brewers' desire to move 'Beyond Beer', Carlsberg Group have recently had 2 offers for Britvic plc turned down, the last at £3.1bn, or 29% above Britvic's share price listing. This tells us a few things about the fortunes, and plans, of both companies. Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company currently makes only 2% of its revenues outside of beer, the move for Britivic shows a clear desire to diversify, and this would be a quick way to do it. They also have the scale to make well loved UK brands like J2O and Robinsons mainstream in Europe, if they get the strategy right and can take on the local heroes in each market. They would also get the Pepsi distribution rights in the UK, which they have in some European markets already. #Britvic are 2nd only to Coca-Cola Europacific Partners in the UK, a great position in a challenging category, and they are great at #innovation, with new offerings like #Plenish and #LondonEssence growing at a steady rate and attracting that all important Gen Z revenue. They know they have a lot of opportunity to expand geographically and value the company higher than the offers so far. Will #Carlsberg come back with a better offer? Will Britvic resist? Will other players come into the mix (Lucozade Ribena Suntory we're looking at you 👀 !). How do we feel about this potential acquisition? Would it solve Carlsberg's category diversity issue? Can Britvic grow organically without the distribution platform that someone like Carlsberg can offer? Would holidays in Spain and Italy be better if we can get better access to an Apple and Mango J2O? Hannah Jane Winter Jenny Syddall Christina Lade Cindy Tervoort Helen Passard Tristan Findlay Simon Parnell Jonathan Farrell Paulina Zakrzewska Andy Bolton Claire Woolridge

Reflecting on my journey from opening a retail beer store at 22 year old to building and eventually selling Steel City Beer Wholesalers, it's clear every challenge was an invaluable lesson. I'm sharing my story not just as a tale of personal achievement, but as an invitation to explore how these hard-won insights can empower your beverage brand. From the trenches to triumph, my path has been anything but conventional. Let's connect and leverage these experiences to script your brand's success story. Excited for what lies ahead! #BeverageIndustry #Entrepreneurship #BrandGrowth #Consulting #SuccessStory

We've got some exciting news today ya'll! We're thrilled to announce that we've partnered with Frazer Kinsley's new venture Linkt to give our current customers access to Linkt’s expertise in grocery and retailer distribution for more comprehensive end-to-end managed supply chain solutions. Linkt, founded by Frazer Kinsley, leverages their deep understanding of the complexities within the #CPG and food & beverage supply chain to offer comprehensive solutions, from managed supply chain services to scalable, custom distribution strategies tailored to seasonal demand shifts. Togo’s model of analyze, design, connect, and execute, together with Linkt will still allow customers the control they seek, while giving them access to additional expertise and scalability. If you’re interested in how to work together with us, shoot us an email at contactus@harnesstogo.com #supplychain #integratedsolutions #analyze #design #connect #execute

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁? Not a Guinness ad but the last & final episode in the BRITVIC-CARLSBERG saga Time will tell if the taste (synergies) will out-weight the calories (the acquisition price) In the meantime, the deal has far reaching implications for competitors starting with HEINEKEN & ABINBEV but also for COCA-COLA (BRITVIC & CARLSBERG are both PEPSICO bottlers). The overall will only increase further the competition intensity in UK, a strategic market on Beer & NARTD This transaction is the last illustration of the prediction we made on M&A at the beginning of the year: We expected an acceleration of M&A transactions value in the FMCG industry in 2024 driven by: Mid-size deals (0.5-5bn$ EV) on same categories/ markets fueled by GTM synergies as FMCG companies refocus on what works best in terms of M&A ROI over the last decade This deal is exactly that More in our last M&A publications: i) 2012-2022 FMCG M&A winners & losers: https://lnkd.in/et3dmBCi ii) 2023 FMCG M&A in review: https://lnkd.in/eB7-BVsF iii) 2024 Q1 M&A in review: https://lnkd.in/e7cNUq66 Exciting year ahead for M&A 𝗧𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀, 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝘀 & 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗠𝗖𝗚 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: https://lnkd.in/ea4gy65y #fmcg #cpg PepsiCo The Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola Europacific Partners The HEINEKEN Company AB InBev Diageo Pernod Ricard https://lnkd.in/e2TMXhTP

We've been hard at work! See the below article on just some of the improvements we have made to operations, prime costs, and supply chain management over the prior few years: