Despite a cloudy economic outlook, enterprises in 15 industries will continue to pursue strategic IT initiatives focused on big data and analytics, cloud computing and mobility. Manufacturing, in particular, will account for almost a quarter of all enterprise IT spending in the United States in 2013.
Apollo and Metropoulos hope to have America's favorite snacks back on the shelf by this summer. They agreed to pay $410 million to purchase the brands, five bakeries and certain equipment.
Empowering Women Together will be part of Store for Good, a developing Walmart.com program dedicated to connecting consumers with products that do good for other people, for themselves, or for our environment.
A new position will help McCormick drive sales growth by aligning its customer intimacy efforts and driving its strategy consistently across McCormick's industrial businesses worldwide.
Flowers Foods has integrated more than 100 acquisitions since 1968, and three significant ones in just the last three years Tasty Baking, Lepage Bakeries, and the Sara Lee and Earthgrains brands in California.
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This acquisition strengthens Flowers Foods' market presence in California, adding about 14.5 million people to the 70 percent of the U.S. population that currently has access to its fresh breads and rolls.
