Events/Webinars/Viewpoint webinar: Issue 9

Viewpoint webinar:
Issue 9

 

This webinar has taken place. Watch the recording here.

Last November, we forecast that food price inflation would peak at 17%-19% in the first quarter of 2023. Despite this seeming an alarming prediction at the time, the ONS announced in March that food price inflation had indeed reached 18%. While the UK economy is predicted to avoid a recession (just), it is going to be important for food businesses to review the lessons learnt over the past year, to look at how the industry prepares for the future should a weak recovery occur and most importantly how we protect the shopper.

Join our team live and be the first to hear our next Viewpoint update: Time to plan for a weak recovery?

Agenda:

During the webinar, we will share our latest viewpoint on the following key areas:

  • How the Spring Budget and OBR report impacts the food and consumer goods industry
  • The latest key economic indicators including inflation and food price inflation, the labour market and GDP
  • Consumer confidence and attitudes to spending and saving
  • Government policy including the Northern Ireland Protocol, Energy policy, Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs) and packaging

Why join live?

  • You’ll be the first to see the findings in our latest report, Viewpoint: Time to plan for a weak recovery?
  • Hear first-hand the insight behind the report’s findings
  • You’ll have the chance to put your questions to our experts in a live Q&A session

What previous delegates said:

This is a webinar that's key to support the business direction and future strategy. It’s incredibly informative, with relevance to the future outlook.

Good insightful overview of key economic and shopper trends and impact on our industry. Useful to incorporate this into short and long term business planning.

Having a clear view on the current and potential future situation helps me communicate that to my team. It means they have the latest most trusted insight to decide on the key implications for our business to then make decisions. I also use this information to share the UK situation with our global team in Germany when we present our quarterly business updates. Thank you for continuously making complicated subjects simple and engaging!

Having a clear view on the current and potential future situation helps me communicate that to my team. It means they have the latest most trusted insight to decide on the key implications for our business to then make decisions. I also use this information to share the UK situation with our global team in Germany when we present our quarterly business updates. Thank you for continuously making complicated subjects simple and engaging!

Meet the speakers

James Walton

James Walton

Chief Economist, IGD

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James’ role at IGD is to help businesses anticipate and cope with strategic events, including: economic pressures, geo-political change, social developments and environmental stress.

James is well known for speaking at both UK and international events and provides interviews for TV, radio and the press. He also creates original reports and articles for IGD.

James has worked with clients across the entire grocery industry as well as with non-industry groups such as government departments, financial businesses and NGOs.

James joined IGD in April 1999 and has served in several roles, becoming Chief Economist in 2004.

Prior to joining IGD, he worked for Hillsdown Holdings, Northern Foods and Rank-Xerox.

Michael Freedman

Michael Freedman

Head of Economic & Consumer Insight, IGD

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Michael has responsibility for delivering expert economic and consumer insight to business leaders and stakeholders. This includes macro-economic insights such as IGD’s Shopper Confidence Index, and how shopper behaviour is changing due to key events such as COVID-19 and EU exit. Michael also focuses on driving strong engagement with IGD stakeholders through IGD’s Economics bulletin and providing thought leadership for IGD’s Viewpoint reports and series of webinars.

Michael is an experienced presenter, regularly delivering actionable shopper insights. He has significant agency and client-side experience in managing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research projects. He was previously Senior Insight Manager at Which? and has worked at both GfK Market Research and Research International.

Michael Freedman

Matthew Stoughton-Harris

Economics and Public Policy Manager, IGD

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Matthew supports the economics team in providing expert economic and policy analysis to help businesses make better decisions when dealing with strategic events.

His focus is on creating original economic and policy insight for the entire grocery industry. He is also responsible for supporting government relationships and boosting the team’s video output.

Matthew joined IGD in 2022, prior to which he worked for Willis Towers Watson in several roles across investment and insurance. Matthew holds a masters in Environment and Development from London School of Economics.