ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 6/3/2014
RSi, Gigwalk Partner for Intelligent Crowdsourcing
The new offering provides clients with end-to-end business intelligence that drives sales by delivering real-time, actionable intelligence to field operations for improved in-store retail execution and on-shelf availability. - 6/2/2014
Coty, Li & Fung Form Distribution Agreement in China
This agreement represents a shift in Coty's go-to-market strategy for brands sold through the mass distribution channel in China, by allowing Coty to leverage Li & Fung's broad distribution network in that channel. - 6/2/2014
Kimberly-Clark Continues Finance Transformation with 5-Year Deal
Kimberly-Clark has been an industry pioneer, industrializing its business process operations through Genpact in 2007, when the company made the strategic decision to drive more cost-effective finance operations in order to focus on product innovation and customer service. - 6/2/2014
Pilgrim's Pride Tops Tyson Bid for Hillshire
This new proposal comes just days after Tyson Foods Inc.'s competing offer for Hillshire, which exceeded Pilgrim's Pride's initial offer of $6.4 billion at a total value of $6.8 billion. - 6/1/2014
The Top 25 Supply Chains in 2014
This 10th anual list from Gartner, Inc. features several longtime leaders with new lessons to share and a number of more recent entrants from the high-tech, consumer product and industrial sectors. - 5/29/2014
Kellogg Embraces Predictive Analytics
Kellogg will use APTs cloud-based Test & Learn software to evaluate initiatives in merchandising, product, pricing and operations. - 5/29/2014
Tyson Joins Food Fight, Bids for Hillshire
Valued at $6.8 billion, the deal is another alternative to a recently proposed offer from Pilgrims Pride, and is also subject to the termination of Hillshire's previous merger agreement with Pinnacle. - 5/29/2014
Welch's Names CMO from Schwan
Previously at Schwans, the exec helped revitalize the pizza business by repositioning iconic brands like Red Baron and Freschetta, including launching new advertising and bringing consumer driven innovation. - 5/27/2014
Unilever Taps Retail Optimization Tool
Unilever wins BJ's "Supply Chain Partnership Award 2014", while utilizing The TABS Group, Inc.'s retail space optimization product. - 5/27/2014
Speed of Change in Retail Analytics
Everything around you is in a constant state of change. Technology has catapulted the way retailers and suppliers provide products to the consumer, requiring them to look at their businesses differently almost on an hourly basis. Britt Fogg, CEO, president and founder of Shiloh Technologies, a division of SPI, gave us his insights around the speed of change in the retailer/supplier industry.