Strategy

The new candidate comes most recently from J. Crew and Saks Incorporated, and will focus on Avon's turnaround including driving sustainable and profitable growth.

Talking Rain announces the addition of John Peirano as Chief Marketing Officer who joins recent hire Marcus Smith as Chief Financial Officer, and recently promoted Michael Lowes as Chief Operating Officer.

Cole Haan will open its Innovation & Sports Lifestyle Design Center at its global headquarters in Greenland, New Hampshire, enabling the brand to aggressively expand its offering of ZeroGrand products for men and women.

Over the past several years the global economy has been a roller coaster ride rising high and falling quick. However, several consumer goods companies have weathered the storm and continued to demonstrate growth. Find out who ranked among the top six most-promising CG companies.

The acquisition is expected to provide the company greater scale and strategic balance to its current portfolio while positioning it for continued growth.

General Mills will close a cereal plant and a yogurt factory - eliminating up to 600 jobs - in an effort to cut costs and offset the sluggish U.S. demand for cereal and other packaged foods.

Today, business is being transformed by leveraging big data. It is much more than just analytics. There is a multitude of competitive advantages for leveraging big data, which includes your internal data, syndicated, social media and demographic/psychographic data. Let us start with a definition of big data.

Campbell is one of 20 U.S. companies, and one of two U.S. food companies, included in the Global 100. The Global 100 drew companies from 22 countries on five continents, evaluating a total of 4,609 companies.