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- 1/3/2012
Liz Claiborne Inc. to Become Fifth & Pacific Companies
<div>The name change comes after the sale of the Liz Claiborne namesake brand to J.C. Penney, among other recent transactions.</div><br /> - 12/20/2011
Land O'Lakes Makes Leadership Changes for Growth
<div>According to CEO Chris Policinski, the organizational changes will ensure the structure and capabilities directly support the strategic imperatives of Land O'Lakes.</div><br /> - 12/20/2011
IDC's Top 10 Manufacturing Predictions for 2012
<div>IDC Manufacturing Insights identifies THE trends that will impact manufacturing business and IT decisions in the next year. Plus, Practice Director Simon Ellis focuses in on what the overall manufacturing predictions mean specifically for consumer goods companies.</div><br /> - 12/20/2011
Store Execution: Insight where it is needed most
Understanding store execution where promotion plans meets consumer behavior remains a major challenge in the consumer goods industry. Yet understanding the nuances of store execution is essential to first understanding, then improving, the return on ever-growing trade promotion spending... <br /> - 12/19/2011
Jones Soda Co. Appoints New Board Member
The new member comes to the Jones Soda Board from companies such as Altria Group, Kraft Foods and General Foods among others. <br /> - 12/19/2011
BI-LO Buys Winn-Dixie for $560 Million
The merger will create an organization of approximately 690 grocery stores and 63,000 employees in eight states throughout the southeastern United States.<br /> - 12/19/2011
Kimberly-Clark Launches Global Rollout of Workday
<div>Kimberly-Clark will deploy Workday for 57,000 workers in 60 countries, in order to foster and build its worldwide talent.</div><br /> - 12/19/2011
Coke and P&G Execs Join GS1
President and CEO of GS1 US, Bob Carpenter believes that the new executives expertise will strengthen GS1s ability to bring communities together to foster supply chain collaboration across many industry sectors.<br /> - 12/19/2011
Hershey to Acquire Brookside Foods Ltd.
The Brookside product line is primarily sold in the U.S. and Canada, and annual net sales of the business are approximately $85 million Canadian dollars.<br /> - 12/15/2011
Top 5 Sales and Marketing Headlines in 2011
2011 has been an exciting and transformational year in the consumer goods industry. Here, we revisit a handful of the biggest news stories from Walmart's decision to finally share POS data to Kraft Foods big split which will undoubtedly have a continuing impact on the state of the industry. <br />