by Minter Dial | Sep 29, 2015 | Branding
There are a number of industries where the big titans seem to prefer buying up small niche brands rather than grow their own. If the internal innovation isn’t sufficient and the organic growth is not enough, the natural option quickly becomes external acquisition....
by Minter Dial | Jun 21, 2015 | Minter Dialogue, Retail
Minter Dialogue Episode #151 This interview is with Annabel Kilner, head of Made.com UK, an online furniture retailer, which was created by Ning Li, Julien Callede, Chloe Macintosh and Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman in 2010. Having previously...
by Minter Dial | Nov 19, 2014 | Leadership
Driving your brand’s point of difference When you work for a large organization with many sub-brands, where people tend to cycle through brands as part of career advancement, it’s a fact that brand differentiation becomes hard to maintain. As a...
by Minter Dial | Nov 12, 2014 | Retail
Most serious retailers are now looking deeply at ways to go “digitail” aka exploit digital in retail. In other words, they are looking for ways to use and ‘manage’ digital tools, devices and platforms in the retail space for good...
by Minter Dial | Oct 19, 2014 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue Episode #117 — This interview is with Georges-Edouard Dias, my former digital sparring partner and ex-CDO at L’Oreal, and now co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Quantstreams Agency, helping big companies master customer data. In this...