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- 10/2/2012
PLM Helps Retailers Innovate Faster
<div>Product Lifecycle Management has shifted from merely enabling improved technical specification, sampling and sourcing management processes to enabling faster innovation and product cycle times, with improved regulatory compliance and reduced costs, according to a new IDC Retail Insights report.</div><br /> - 10/2/2012
Target Bets on QR Codes for Holiday Sales
<div>The big box retailer will feature 20 toys at the front end promoted with signs featuring Quick Response codes; shoppers with smart phones can scan the codes to buy the toys and have them shipped for free.</div><br /> - 10/2/2012
President/CEO Departs VICS
<div>Prior to joining the association in 2002 as managing director, the departing leader, who is pursuing other professional opportunities, held a leadership position with technology vendor OMI International and spent 25 years with Nabisco.</div><br /> - 10/1/2012
Smart Balance Launches Milk Line for Kids
<div>The three varieties are now sold in all Harris Teeter stores, including those in North Carolinathe first state where the product line has been introduced.</div><br /> - 10/1/2012
Kraft Foods Group Marks First Independently Traded Day
<div>Approximately 80 percent of the $19 billion in revenues from the newly spun food & beverage company comes<span> from categories in which it holds the No. 1 or No. 2 market position.</span></div><br /> - 10/1/2012
Mondelez Completes Kraft Spin-Off
The newly named company has annual revenue of approximately $36 billion and operations in more than 80 countries. <br /> - 10/1/2012
Yoplait Debuts Frozen Yogurt
<div>The pints and novelties from General Mills and Wells Enterprises, Inc. contain live and active cultures, real fruit, use natural flavors, and are low-fat and a good source of calcium; the Greek flavors contain twice as much protein as regular frozen yogurt.</div><br /><br /><br /> - 9/30/2012
BAT Signs Global Communications Deal
<div>BT will manage the global wide area network infrastructure, including remote access, network security and third-party supplier management, for the tobacco company.</div><br /> - 9/30/2012
Kimberly-Clark Exec Named HR Leader
The award recipient led the development of a five-year People Strategy with initiatives focused on employee engagement, talent management, diversity and inclusion, leadership development and new technologies that help the company better manage its global workforce. <br /> - 9/27/2012
Kraft's Lower Sodium Goals on Track
<div>The packaged food giant has already eliminated the equivalent of 14 million pounds of salt, or 1 billion teaspoons, from the North American diet annually.</div><br />