Demand planning, in essence, is predicting the future – or estimating it at least. It’s a dark art that even the biggest businesses don’t get right despite allocating huge amounts of resource to it. There can be multiple demand planners on the big accounts who would meet with their customers every month and still there…

Co-founder of Snaffling Pig and our fellow Young Foodies Blue Plaster Podcast presenter, Andy Allen shares his top tips on what you should consider before setting up your online shop and how to differentiate your product offering. Ah the internet: creator of amazing opportunities, source of excellent cat pictures and great leveler of the playing…

Julia Glotz is The Grocer’s managing editor; she’s in charge of how the magazine runs day-to-day and commissions their comment, opinion and feedback pages. A while ago we spoke to Julia to find out what she and the team look for in a story and how to get your pitch right… What direction is The Grocer…