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- 3/3/2015
Estee Lauder Sponsors STEM Contest
The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York announced the launch of the second annual Dream it. Code it. Win it. contest. The student coding competition rewards and promotes creativity, diversity and literacy in the field of computer science. Estee Lauder will sponsor the women's prize. - 3/3/2015
Top 10 Billionaires in Food & Bev
Taking a closer look at <em>Forbes'</em> 29th annual ranking of the world's richest is littered with consumer goods executives. Here, we take a look at the top 10 billionaires in the world across Food and Beverage. - 3/3/2015
Kimberly-Clark CFO Announces Retirement
CFO of Kimberly-Clar, Mark Buthman, announced his plans to retire at the end of 2015, after 33 years with the company. Maria Henry will be his successor and serve as SVP and CFO effective April 27 for a smooth transition. - 3/2/2015
Mondelez Sells Japanese Coffee Venture to Ajinomoto
Mondelez International will sell its 50 percent interest in Ajinomoto General Foods to its joint venture partner, Ajinomoto Co, as part of its ongoing efforts to further focus its portfolio on snacking products. - 3/2/2015
Hershey Appoints New CFO
In September Hershey announced the retirement of CFO David Tacka. Last week the company named Patricia Little to succeed him, effective March 16. - 3/2/2015
Mondelez Sells Betabox Start-Up to VaynerMedia
Mondelez International has sold Betabox, LLC to VaynerMedia as part of its Mobile Futures initiative to create and incubate new mobile ventures in 90 days. - 2/25/2015
Top 6 Retail Trends to Watch in 2015
2014 was an exciting year in retail. Consumers are back, new technologies are blossoming, and omnichannel content curation is a top priority. Here are the Top 5 areas to watch in 2015. - 2/24/2015
Mondelez Announces New EVP and President N.A.
Mondelez International announced Roberto Marques will join the company in mid-March as EVP and President, North America. He will lead the company's $7 billion business in the U.S. and Canada. - 2/24/2015
Amway Deploys Innovation without Limits
In the world of consumer goods, Amway is a rare success story. The company's direct-selling model has been nothing but successful, but this didn't come about by chance. Armed with a structered, yet flexible product development process, and growing network of external partners, Amway and its Open Innovation Team, is well on its way to turning a good business into a great business. - 2/24/2015
Reinvention of Category Management Requires More Robust Product Content
As the consumer goods industry rushes to get closer to the shopper, both competitively and collaboratively, emerging technologies start to take hold, and we find ways to bring sophistication and data, data, data! to existing processes.