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- 5/14/2013
L'Oreal USA Gains Purchasing Power with Analytics
With new market advancements, L'Oreal's ecosystem of suppliers and vendors has grown exponentially. A new cloud analytics solution is expected help marketing and procurement gain immediate and broad access to global data to make faster and more insightful decisions. - 5/14/2013
The Changing Role of the CIO
There is a paradigm shift happening today among CIOs in the consumer goods industry. The role is in a state of transition from just keeping the lights on to powering business opportunities. Here, Dr Pepper Snapple Groups CIO explains how he challenged the status quo to drive rapid continuous improvements across the business. - 5/14/2013
Deckers Adopts Supply Chain Visibility Platform
The global footwear provider is among a fast-growing number of companies recognizing the importance of adopting cloud-based supply chain technology to better compete. - 5/13/2013
Groupe Danone, Happy Family Announce Partnership
Groupe Danone will assume the role of parent company providing additional resources allowing Happy Family to pioneer even more new products. - 5/9/2013
Post Holdings to Acquire Hearthside Business
Post plans to combine the acquired business with its Attune Foods business, a branded ready to eat cereal business Post acquired in December 2012. - 5/9/2013
U.S. Postal Service Incents CPG Marketers
If they try it, they'll buy it. That's the message the U.S. Postal Service is sending to consumer packaged goods companies and other marketers with its new mail promotion. Find out more details about this new initiative, including how it hopes to re-invigorate product sampling. - 5/9/2013
Kimberly-Clark Announces New Treasurer
The new treasurer succeeds Nancy Loewe, who will continue to serve as the company's chief strategy officer. - 5/8/2013
Modern Day Blessings
<em>CGT</em> Editor Alliston Ackerman gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue. - 5/8/2013
Newell Rubbermaid Gets A Fresh Perspective
Newell Rubbermaid went straight to the source for millennial marketing insights by partnering with more than 150 Philadelphia University industrial design students. - 5/8/2013
Past Versus Present
More than any other time in history, consumer goods sales and marketing teams are leaning on intelligent systems to navigate change. <em>CGT</em>'s Publisher, Albert Guffanti, asks Michael Shoemaker, director, Industry Market Development -- Distribution & Consumer Goods for Microsoft, to explain why yesterday's technologies don't match up to modern day business and consumer needs.