Finance & Capital Management

Heineken USA appoints John Larkins to general manager of the organization's Central Regional Business Unit effective January 1, 2007.

VF Outdoor Inc., a subsidiary of VF Corporation, is in negotiation to acquire Eagle Creek Inc., a supplier of adventure travel gear, including accessories, luggage, daypacks and other products.

Benefit Cosmetics, a subsidiary of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, is the third best-selling makeup brand in the United Kingdom, a top-seller in the United States and Japan, and has plans to expand into China in the near future.

Pepsi-Cola North America leverages Avista Decision Support Services (Avista DSS) by Marketing Management Analytics Inc. (MMA) to help maximize the return on its marketing investments.

Nestl employs close to 250,000 people and maintains factories or operations in almost every country in the world.

THE MERGER AND ACQUISITION (M&A) trend continued through 2006, impacting a large number of technology providers that service the consumer goods (CG) industry.

SAP shares its perspective on the consumer goods market

Georgia Pacific, one of the world's largest manufacturers of tissue, paper, packaging and other consumer products, selects ToolsGroup's DPM Inventory Optimization Solution to optimize customer service to a diverse customer base, while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating costs.