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7 March 2022
by Marcel Blok
in Strategy
2022: the year of innovation.
Of course, calling any year “the Year of …….” is hazardous and some might even say pompous. But what speaks against it, if we bear in mind that nowadays virtually every day on the calendar is a day of something. Nothing official, just spontaneously created (I assume) like “the day to take the dog to [...]
7 April 2021
by Marcel Blok
in Strategy
A different future is waiting for us.
A different future is waiting for us. A welcome challenge for some, an unwelcome nightmare for others. But different all the same. That’s what change is about! The pandemic is often mentioned as a game-changer. Which I think is wrong. Most of the trends that are spoken about today were already there – and noticeable [...]
15 June 2020
by Marcel Blok
in Strategy
A theory
The People’s Republic of China (later China) is a booming pet food market; and is likely to remain so for years to come. That is good news for those who export pet food to China.
25 March 2020
by Marcel Blok
in Strategy
Post-Corona
In most countries pet food is seen as a necessity of life; as is human food. This means there are no barriers for its sales, lockdown or no lockdown. The main question is: will specialty outlets (pet shops etc.) stay open or not? In a lot of countries only supermarkets and pharmacies are allowed to […]
22 November 2019
by Marcel Blok
in General
Cellular agriculture
Only recently I came across some information about cellular agriculture. The popularised short version seems to be cell-ag. For me this is an extremely intriguing development. I was aware of the developments of cultured meat or lab meat; or whatever one wishes to call it. But it goes much further than that. It’s about nature […]
7 May 2019
by Marcel Blok
in Product
Wood
The quest for so-called novel proteins is incessant and more shared than ever before. For a great variety of reasons. Nutritional ones, ecological ones, economic ones, sustainability ones. And a few more.
3 February 2019
by Marcel Blok
in Strategy
Trends again!
In our optimism we tend to focus on upward trends, conveniently ignoring the downward ones. Let alone the ones that have faded into oblivion. And as we know, sooner or later most trends are destined to be countered by anti-trends. This I believe tells us something about the sustainability of trends in general.
19 December 2018
by Marcel Blok
in Product
SuperPremium
In one of Debbie Phillips-Donaldson´s (Petfood Industry) recent articles about trends, the last paragraph caught my eye. New standards for super-premium were mentioned (note: not by Debbie herself, she quoted somebody else). I read that with mixed feelings. Jealousy because there seem to be standards for super-premium I wasn´t aware of and joy because super-premium had become […]
21 June 2018
by Marcel Blok
in Strategy
When does pet food start to create its own trends?
In an interesting blog Henriette Bylling of Aller Petfood raised a challenging question: “Should pet food development be led by human food trends?”
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