Food in the spotlight 2022-In crisis lies opportunities

I am happy to note the newsletter counts already around 4.200 subscribers from all over the world. Feedbacks were very positive on the first two issues and as usual, I feel blessed in having such an active community of readers. In each interaction, feedback, and new idea, lies the seed of a new venture, project, or cooperation.

This year started with a spike in COVID cases (sadly), but also an incredible amount of new updates and activities in the food sector. Once again, I think there’s no room for being gloomy: we cannot decide to live in troubled or peaceful times, we can only decide what to do with the time given to us (Note: I won’t stop annoying you with hidden quotes from movies/books unless someone in the comments recognizes them).

2020 and 2021 widely proved to me that in crisis lies opportunities. I hired 3 persons full-time and 1 part-time. Our overall turnover grew by a staggering 60%: 13% in 2021 and 47% in 2021 and since we were already used to working in “remote” mode from 2013 (fancy agile office, webinars, and conference call most of the time, a lot of travels in different time zones…) we did not suffer any organizational stepback. On the contrary, I invested a huge part of the time saved from traveling in reorganizing our internal workflow, our IT tools, and our organization. Therefore I see now well placed…