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- 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. - 2/24/2015
Encouraging Diversity
Team members and partners who come with different backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and ways of thinking, all contribute to a dynamic culture, robust knowledge bank, and innovative thinking. - 2/24/2015
McCormick Acquires Italian Seasonings for $97M
McCormick & Company signed an agreement to purchase Drogheria & Alimentari (D&A), a privately held company based in Italy for $97 million. D&A is a leader in spices and seasonings with annual sales of approximately $57 million. - 2/24/2015
General Mills Delivers Speedy New Product Success
Using the entrepreneurial spirit of a smaller company, General Mills acted on an intuition, an outside partnership and direct consumer interaction, for a quick innovation with a big impact. - 2/24/2015
PepsiCo to Sell Juices via E-Commerce
PepsiCo is about to shake things up. The company is planning to break into retail by selling its premium snacks and drinks exclusively through e-commerce platforms in India, according to reports. - 2/24/2015
Campbell's Top 10 Influential Food Trends of 2015
Campbell's Culinary & Baking Institute released its second annual Culinary TrendScape -- a trend report tracking the top 10 influential food themes for 2015, including Filipino Flavors, Regional Barbecue and Bread Revival. - 2/24/2015
Innovate to Invigorate
<em>CGT</em>'s Industry Liaison, Werner Graf, provides some lesser-known resources for innovation including how to match your customers' pain points with the right technology, for success. - 2/24/2015
Campbell's to Drive $200M in Cost Savings
Campbell's shared its new cost reduction plan as well as an initiative to simplify its organization structure to improve agility in the marketplace. The company expects these to generate annual cost savings of $200 million over a three-year period.