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Nestlé continues e-commerce expansion with SimplyCook acquisition: ‘Direct-to-consumer will continue to grow in the future’ Nestlé continues to lean into the direct-to-consumer (D2C) channel as part of its portfolio transformation strategy. This week, the Swiss food giant snapped up UK recipe kit company SimplyCook. With the changes ushered in by COVID expected to leave a lasting mark on consumption patterns, expectations for D2C sales are high.
COVID-19 has accelerated the UK’s online grocery market. Data from Edge by Ascential suggests the surge in e-commerce is expected to add £5.3bn to UK online sales this year, raising the value of the market to £78.9bn.
Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future?
A frothy adaptation market is just one sign of the rapid evolution of the industry. But some worry that big money will stifle the D.I.Y. spirit that has driven much of its success.
Once seen as a marginal forum for comedy, tech talk and public radio programming, podcasting is one of the hottest corners in media, with Hollywood hungry for TV and film adaptations.Credit.Hudson Christie
Feb. 25, 2021
In November, production began in Los Angeles on a new series with the trappings of a potential hit.
“Unwanted” is a buddy action comedy told with a wink, part “Beverly Hills Cop” homage and part Seth Rogen-esque genre sendup. It stars Lamorne Morris (“Woke” and “New Girl”) and Billy Magnussen (“Game Night”) as slackers who stumble on criminal intrigue in between bong hits, and its script is stocked with gross-out humor. (Sample line: “When I told you I dropped my phone in the toilet, that wasn’t the
Feb 24, 2021 9:00am
Catalent will add Delphi s 17,000-square-foot plasmid DNA facility, pictured here, to its growing cell and gene therapy center of excellence in Gosselies, Belgium. (Delphi Genetics)
Catalent s Belgian manufacturing foothold is widening, as the company moves to acquire yet another cell and gene therapy CDMO in the area.
Catalent locked in a deal to buy 100% of the shares of Delphi Genetics, a plasmid DNA cell and gene therapy CDMO based out of Gosselies, Belgium. The move will help speed the start of commercial plasmid manufacturing at Catalent s facility in Rockville, Maryland, and add to the CDMO s fast-growing hub in Gosselies.
Arcserve, StorageCraft To Merge, Create Data Protection Powerhouse
‘We’ll always be 100-percent channel-focused moving forward. We’re both diametrically opposed to any channel conflict. You won’t see us moving into a direct sales motion. We think there are opportunities for us to really double-down with the channel and invest more in sales and marketing where both of us wouldn’t have had the ability to do that stand-alone,’ says Arcserve CEO Tom Signorello. By Joseph F. Kovar February 24, 2021, 07:00 AM EST
Data protection technology vendors Arcserve and StorageCraft on Wednesday unveiled the signing of a definitive agreement to merge in a deal that will roll the two companies under the “Arcserve” brand and create a top-five data protection software giant.