Corporate Governance

Gayle G. Stratmann, vice president and general counsel of Energizer since March 2003, will retire in the first half of calendar 2012.

Executives at this leading nutrition company can now use an iPad App to evaluate sales and marketing performance.

Unilever made two big announcements in one week: First, its pending sales of Mrs. Dash and other specialty Culver brands for $325 million, and second, an expanded brand offering in the U.K.

Technologically-Advanced Consumers, The Demise of Enterprise IT, Proven Downstream Data Use Cases, The Supply Chain of the Future you name the topic, chances are that the speakers covered it at the 2011 Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference. Click here for a recap of the event's many highlights, featuring industry all stars from P&G, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Energizer, PepsiCo and many more.

Walmart U.S. has delivered three consecutive months of positive same store sales. That means big plans for growth through 2013 even though operating expenditures will decrease significantly. New stores will add between 45 and 49 million square feet worldwide in the next fiscal year. The company also forecasted sales growth between 5 and 7 percent for fiscal year 2013.

Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a full range of Cloud Solutions including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud.

The opening represents the culmination of a two-year-project, with a total investment of 15 million euros (approximately $20 million).