Unlocking Success: Fresh Insights for FMCG in 2024
We have refreshed our FMCG category expert advice for 2024! CoreRange.com gives convenience retailers all the insights they need to select a best-selling product range.
Positivity at DCS - How Positive Feedback Can Make All the Difference in the Workplace
I think I was slightly sceptical when I first read an article by Shelle Rose Charvet, best-selling author of ‘Words That Change Minds,’ when she described the impact of only giving positive feedback to delegates on her certification training course. She had been constantly exploring ways to help delegates overcome ‘Incompetency Attacks’ – those negative states that hijack learners’ ability to take on new learning because ‘they can’t do it’ – and hadn’t found one single way to change the unhelpful patterns.
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How DCS Partnered with WHSmith to Create Huge Sales
WHSmith began trading with DCS in 2013 when we partnered with them to support the implementation of an extended Health and Beauty range in their Travel store portfolio.
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Shopper Spending in an Economic Downturn… It’s Not All Doom and Gloom.
The news at the moment is a depressing collection of attention-grabbing headlines about grocery inflation, rising energy prices, rising interest rates, global supply chain issues, economic downturn, public sector pay disputes and a cost of living that’s spiralling out of control. So here’s a question… is it all doom and gloom, or can we find some positives buried deep down at the bottom of the (now slightly more expensive) barrel?
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Eco Products. As a Retailer… Should You REALLY Care?
Yes, you should. Nice and simple.
OK, for those who won’t just take my word for it, coming up are 559 more words by way of justification.
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Rapid Delivery...Rapid Growth!
March 2020 saw the first lockdown with COVID-19, this was a scary experience and meant consumers were unable to complete their weekly routines. And so Rapid Delivery was born! A service which allows a consumer to receive their shopping within minutes without leaving their house. Getir is one of the biggest players within this sector consisting of over 220 dark stores and 2 RDCs covering London, Manchester, Birmingham and many more cities.
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How DCS Launched a Brand New Haircare Range
DCS are super proud to share the success story of our new Enliven Fruits Haircare range! This is the first time we have designed and developed a unique fruity range of hair products targeting specific hair types. A set of 3 mouth-watering variants in a complete regime that meets your specific hair needs, trialled, and tested on 150 consumers!
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How We Know Our Training is Working at DCS
As a business with a heart in distribution and manufacturing, we have a very strong culture of compliance training. It’s never been enough for us to simply meet the basic audit standards for our sector. For many years we have committed to additional accreditations because we believe they’re important – for the safety of our own people and supply partners and for the quality of service we want to deliver.
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The Power of Collaborative Partnerships: How We Create Opportunities and Drive Growth for Our Suppliers and Customers
Whitworths and DCS worked together to identify a strong customer partner to collaborate on a significant distribution and growth opportunity. Both Whitworths and DCS have huge confidence in Whitworths’ healthy snacking solution and the size of the potential opportunity. In-Home Bargains, we found a progressive and entrepreneurial partner. With a shared goal, we then started the discussion, collaborating on creating the right consumer proposition that worked for Whitworths, Home Bargains and DCS. Once on the shelf, we were sure the product would deliver and drive trial and repeat purchases.
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