Matthew Boyle

About

Matthew Boyle is a senior reporter for Bloomberg News, covering workplace and management trends across all of its content platforms — the Bloomberg terminal, online, video, TV, print, radio and podcasts. He also co-authors the weekly "Management & Work" newsletter. Before this he covered the U.S. big-box retail scene with a focus on Walmart — the world's biggest retailer and the nation's biggest private employer — as well as Target, Best Buy, Costco and the nation's grocery stores. He was previously the London-based leader of the European Consumer team at Bloomberg, managing a group of reporters and editors across Europe and Africa who chronicled some of the biggest names in business. The beat spanned from AB InBev to Zara and included all of the major food, beverage, luxury, fashion and retail companies in the region. Earlier, he was a reporter on that team. In 2010-2011, Boyle was on Bloomberg's US Consumer team in New York, covering Walmart as well as food companies like Kraft, Kellogg, General Mills, Campbell Soup and Heinz. He consistently broke news on Walmart, including its decision to end employee profit-sharing, its expansion of smaller stores and its need to hire outside consultants to keep its shelves stocked. From September 2008 until the end of 2009, Boyle wrote for Businessweek magazine, where he penned features about the surprise success of Subway's $5 Footlong sandwich and profiled the "CEOs of Tomorrow."​ Between 2000 and 2008, Boyle was a reporter and, later, a writer at Fortune, where he wrote about the rise of store brands, the diaper duel between Pampers and Huggies, the secret to Costco's success and the challenge of making fast food "healthy." Before joining Fortune, Boyle was a writer and also an editor of PRWeek magazine, a weekly trade publication for the public relations and corporate communications fields. Boyle started his journalism career at trade publisher Simba Information. Specialties: Workplace, management, CPG, retail, Walmart, food, aging, leadership, branding, innovation