Strategy

There is a paradigm shift happening today among CIOs in the consumer goods industry. The role is in a state of transition from just keeping the lights on to powering business opportunities. Here, Dr Pepper Snapple Groups CIO explains how he challenged the status quo to drive rapid continuous improvements across the business.

With new market advancements, L'Oreal's ecosystem of suppliers and vendors has grown exponentially. A new cloud analytics solution is expected help marketing and procurement gain immediate and broad access to global data to make faster and more insightful decisions.

Groupe Danone will assume the role of parent company providing additional resources allowing Happy Family to pioneer even more new products.

Post plans to combine the acquired business with its Attune Foods business, a branded ready to eat cereal business Post acquired in December 2012.

The new treasurer succeeds Nancy Loewe, who will continue to serve as the company's chief strategy officer.

With volatile commodity prices impacting COGS and inability to raise prices, CG firms are forced to consider reducing trade spend while simultaneously ensuring that remaining spend delivers maximum impact. It's worth asking the question -- does your organization have a trade ROI mindset?

Together, Conair's Marketing and IT teams wrote a business case that would essentially transform the company's "big data" problem into actionable insights.

TreeHouse Foods promotes a new EVP of TreeHouse Foods and President of Bay Valley Foods, and appoints a newly created role of EVP, Acquisitions Integrations for TreeHouse Foods.