Strategy

The specialty retailer segment has become the story of the haves and the have nots. As news continues to break of store closings and bankruptcy filings across the segment, the members of RIS News' annual ranking of the Top 10 Specialty Retailers continue to show incremental growth.

Coach, Inc. re-platformed its flagship site, Coach.com, on the Demandware Commerce Cloud to gain greater business agility and to fuel growth across channels and geographies.

A new EVP and COO will direct the joint go-to-market sales activities of both the Bay Valley Foods and Flagstone Foods organizations.

Features of NGC's fashion PLM platform such as workflow calendars, global collaboration and exception dashboards are expected to further streamline productivity for PEDS Legwear.

Temkin Group interviewed over 10,000 consumers for its 5th annual customer experience survey and uncovered that while many retailers are routinely satisfying customers others are missing the mark. See where PetSmart, Amazon, Best Buy, and others ranked.

The authors in this section focus a great deal on the pace of change in the industry, and how timing impacts innovation in the market. They explore investments in key technologies (like digital and consumer insights) that can help CG companies react quickly and stay nimble to keep their brands top-of-mind.

Nestl Purina is planning to invest an additional CHF44 million by the end of 2015 to build additional capacity at the Wroclaw facility.

Sager Creek Vegetable Company, formerly known as Allens, Inc., manufactures well-known brands including Veg-all, Freshlike, Popeye, Princella, Trappey's and Allens, among others.