There’s been a lot of media coverage of inflation since the April consumer price index (CPI) report. Consumer prices rose 0.8 percent in April, the fastest pace in more than a decade. That’s following 0.6 percent in March, and 0.4 percent in February. Combined, on an annualized rate, those three months are on an inflation growth trend of 7.2 percent - the fastest increase since 2008. It wasn’t all bullish commodity markets that pushed up consumer inflation. Energy prices declined 0.1 percent in April while food prices were up 0.4 percent. Instead, it was all the other sectors rebounding from COVID: used cars and trucks were up 10 percent, the largest gain ever since tracking started in 1953. Much of the gain was also push...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.