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.