This episode of the "Consumed" series covers the breakdown of the 2019Q4 earnings release and current report of the Franchise Group, which acquired The Vitamin Shoppe officially on 12/16/2019. I use the recent financial reports as the backdrop to explain my perspective on if The Vitamin Shoppe is in a better position to take on the coronavirus pandemic than their main competitor GNC. 

This episode of the "Consumed" series covers the breakdown of the 2020Q1 Glanbia preliminary financial report. Glanbia is a global nutrition company that owns various nutritional supplement and sports nutrition brands. These brands include names like...

I use the recent earnings report as the backdrop to explain my perspective on if Glanbia Performance Nutrition can use its strong balance sheet to grow their market leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.

The economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to wipe out jobs at a record pace. For the week ended April 18, another 4.4 million workers filed for new unemployment benefits, bringing the total number of job losses to about 26 million in the last five weeks. That amounts to about one in six working Americans.  

While I am not some career coach, recruiter, resume writer, or have much content that usually resembles personal development, I do believe I can help your unemployment situation by using my 10+ years of corporate strategy consulting. I will dive into 5 concepts to ensure you come out of the "Great Lockdown" in a better position professionally than you came into it.

On this special "COVID-19 Effect" edition of the Pivotal interview series that tackles topics in consumer packaged goods (CPG) and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) from the business leaders that live it EVERY DAY...we have a candid discussion with Jeremy Smith, President of LaunchPad Group USA, which is the only full service business strategy, branding and representation group intensely focused on emerging food brands highly specialized in Costco Representation and Strategy.   

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If you want to follow Jeremy, check out - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-smith-8aa3281/

On the latest episode of the special edition "COVID-19 Effect" Pivotal interviews, we have a candid discussion with Chris Walton, Co-Founder/Co-CEO of several businesses including the fast-growing retail blog OmniTalk. He is also a senior contributor to Forbes and admittedly my favorite business writer because we share a commonality in our style and thoughts. Prior to starting his entrepreneurial ventures, Chris worked for Target, where he was the VP of the retailer’s Store of the Future project and also a VP of Merchandising on Target.com.  

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If you want to follow Chris, check out - https://omnitalk.blog/

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On this special "COVID-19 Effect" edition of our Pivotal interview series, we have a candid discussion with Chris Wagner, Founder/CEO of several business including Raze Energy, NutraKey, and G POP Foods. Because of the diversity of the portfolio of businesses, it gives Chris a unique perspective across many different food, beverage, and nutritional supplement CPG product categories that all sell in diverse sales channels.   

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Would you like to watch the YouTube video version, click here - https://youtu.be/TfkTPVftdz4

Pivotal is an interview-style segment that tackles topics in consumer packaged goods (CPG) and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) from the business leaders that live it EVERY DAY! This episode, we have a candid discussion with Adam Brown, Founder/CEO of Sircle Media, a leading social media strategy and content creation agency that has a deep client roster of "better for you" CPG brands.   

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If you want to watch the YouTube version, click here - https://youtu.be/iZs_qC98bN4

Simply Good Foods Company, which owns "health and fitness snacking" brands Quest Nutrition, Atkins Nutritionals, and Simply Protein recently reported its earnings on 4/6/2020. If you are interested in the financial performance breakdown, check out the linked YouTube channel that includes presentation slides. Alternatively, this podcast episode will focus on how Quest Nutrition and Atkins Nutritionals are positioned in the COVID-19 retailing environment. 

Link to Full YouTube Video - https://youtu.be/vHf5pLk5mP8

On this "COVID-19 Effect" special Pivotal interview, we have a candid discussion with my longtime friend and personal high performance coach Colby Knepp.   

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If you want to connect with Colby, click here - https://bit.ly/34sHk2I

The struggling supplement retailer GNC recently released its delayed 2019Q4 earnings report. In this podcast, I breakdown the top-level financial data, but more importantly I cover an additional COVID-19 business update press release that GNC submitted on 4/6/2020. I will add commentary to what is happening in the COVID-19 retailing environment and around differing interpretations of the definition of essential or non-essential retail operations. Finally, I share my opinions on several POVs, including vendors (consignment and wholesale), supplement industry, and GNC.