Cyrille Filott

Cyrille Filott is global strategist for Consumer Foods, responsible for setting and executing the research agenda for the Consumer Foods and the Packaging & Logistics franchises within Rabobank globally. This includes thematic and industry research as well as company insights.

He and the team publish research that is relevant to food companies worldwide. Next to that Cyrille is the host of the Consumer Foods-to-Go podcast series, podcast that discusses important topics in the food sector.

Cyrille spends most of his time discussing sector issues with food & agribusiness corporates. He is frequently invited at C-suite meetings to bring insights and to discuss business strategies in food. He is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, he is a business economist with a great deal of experience in fund management and equity research. Since the beginning of 2014 he is the strategist for the Consumer Foods sector. He joined the research team at FAR (Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory) in 2008. Before he worked at M&G Investments in London and ING Investment Management in The Hague. Prior, he earned a master’s degree in Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and holds a VBA designation.

LECTURE BY CYRILLE FILOTT

Moderator of the Session 2
Lecture: Re-thinking the supply chain in bakery
Session 2, 17 June 2022

Late 2020 and especially in 2021 the bakery sector was hit by wave 1 of inflation driven by supply chain issues caused by Covid-19. Many bakers had to increase prices to their customers as a result. Now in 2022 the conflict in Ukraine is putting pressure on supply and supply chains again, leading to wave 2 of inflationary pressures. In his talk, Cyrille Filott will reflect on learnings from wave 1 and wave 2. Then he will discuss some of the factors that companies need to be mindful of going forward, including geo-politics and sustainability. He will close by making suggestions what the supply chain could look like for industrial bakeries, and what measures could be taken both strategically and operationally.