Consumer Affairs & Relations

Howard Willard, who’s been recovering from COVID-19, is retiring after being with the company for nearly three decades.

For CPG manufacturers, managing real-time supply and demand chain issues to support customers during the crisis has inspired new ways of working, innovative thinking and super-fast decision-making.

Smithfield Foods has closed its Sioux Falls, SD facility until further notice.  

The new structure is intended to integrate teamwork across the organization and more effectively deliver service and support to its customers.

Geoff Freeman and Jeff Harmening published a piece in Fortune highlighting the challenges the CPG industry is facing during this moment of historic consumer demand.

Branching off from the CGT and RIS News #CurbThePanic webinar series, we invited a group of healthcare and industry professionals to share what they’re seeing on the front lines, as well as insight on meaningful ways the consumer goods industry can help.

While retailers make moves to support their front-line workers during the health crisis, manufacturers across the globe are modifying their factories in order to pitch in.

The retailers have accelerated the onboarding process for qualified suppliers to receive payments from national banks.