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2025 Edition - Personal Development Plans for Category Managers. FMCG Category Management Training, Learning and Development
Last year I wrote a very popular blog about Personal Development plans for Category Managers. The aim was to support FMCG Category...
Charlie
Jan 84 min read
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How do you calculate Size of Prize?
What's the size of prize? A common question that often arises within category management is ' what is the size of prize ?' and is often...
Charlie
Oct 10, 20242 min read
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Is your Category Recommendation Really Clear?
You've invested hours of working time into pulling and reviewing data, reading decks and collating a presentation that looks fab. You...
Charlie
Jul 13, 20242 min read
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Seven No or Low Spend ways to access Category Information and Insight.
Market data is a big investment and sometimes its simply not feasible for your budget. Your business might be growing but not yet in a...
Charlie
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Personal Development Plans for Category Managers
Do you struggle to come up with ideas for your Personal Development plan? Do you look at the blank boxes to fill in and wonder what you...
Charlie
Mar 17, 20242 min read
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How do you recommend a range when the space is limited to three products?
You can recommend three products to cater for a whole range. There are times when this might be the reality, Convenience stores and Food...
Charlie
Mar 2, 20242 min read
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Pack sizes to Macro trends – the Breadth of Category thinking.
You’re giving a presentation about trends and someone wants to know what the ideal pack size for a product is. This is the expectation...
Charlie
Jan 30, 20241 min read
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Creating a Great Piece of Category work Is only Half the Job.
Delivering a great piece of category work with all the insight and data beautifully crafted into clear recommendations is only half the...
Charlie
Jan 18, 20242 min read
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Too much or too little data.
Do you have enough data to make the decision or recommendation about a product or range? I would suggest yes you do without even knowing...
Charlie
Dec 9, 20222 min read
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8 Resource Challenges Facing Category Teams
The work of Category teams often feels like it’s always a peak rather than a trough. And then even more work comes in. Prioritising can...
Charlie
Nov 3, 20223 min read
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The Future of Category Management - Incorporating Net Zero
Where we need to get to Today Category Managers build plans to grow the sales of their category. This takes the form of more customers,...
Charlie
Oct 31, 20223 min read
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How can I feed the NPD funnel in a cost effective way?
Researching and launching new products is a huge investment. The time spent by people working on concepts and ideas, the time spent...
Charlie
Oct 11, 20222 min read
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Future Category Skills – Understanding Energy
What we want when we want. President Marcon was recently quoted as saying that we were in the end of abundance. The global north has...
Charlie
Sep 29, 20223 min read
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Maximising the Value of Monthly Reports
Monthly Reports are an important element of Category Management and should be a key resource for decision making and action planning in...
Charlie
Sep 13, 20223 min read
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Why a store trial is a big deal and you need to make the most of it
Is there a store trial happening for your category? Is it happening on the back of a recommendation you made to improve performance? A...
Charlie
Sep 5, 20222 min read
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