FMCG Scale-Up Principles: How Consumer Goods Brands Navigate Growth Challenges

If you’re brave [unhinged?] enough to decide being a founder in the consumer goods space is your ticket to fulfilment – then you deserve nothing but respect.

✅Tight margins?

✅Ultra competitive?

✅ Large, aggressive retailers?

✅High innovation burden?

✅ Logistically challenging?

✅ Fickle consumers?

✅ Price conscious?

✅ Discount driven? I could go on…




Again, respect 👊
 
Assuming you’ve hustled your way to some early success, the scale-up journey is your next big test. To make that a little easier, here's some tangible, actionable principles to navigate a little more smoothly. 


Packed into bite-sized snippets - perfect for short attention spans. 


Get your moneys worth. Use data - the retailer language of truth - to tell a story about why you should be front of mind. Make sure you’re giving the terms you’re paying the chance to deliver the right outcome. 

If you want to talk details, or discuss how we can partner with your growing CPG / FMCG company to deliver successful scale, drop me a message. 

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