Strategy

The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. announce the appointment of Fabrizio Freda as president and chief operating officer, effective March 3, 2008.

Under Armour Inc. announces the addition of industry executive Suzanne Karkus as the company's new senior vice president of Apparel.

UK-based Tesco incorporates MicroBuild, a household geo demographic product from The Gadberry Group, into its U.S. grocery store venture.

As part of its Information on Demand strategy, IBM announced on Monday that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cognos, a business intelligence and performance management solutions provider, for approximately $5 billion or $58 per share.

CooperVision, a manufacturer of contact lenses, selected Logility Voyager Solutions to support a new supply chain strategy aimed at improving demand management, inventory and replenishment planning, product lifecycle planning and sales and operations planning processes (S&OP).

Terra Technology announces that its President and CEO Robert F. Byrne will present "Going Green Through Better Math" at the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and Climate Change Conference in New York City on November 28, 2007.

METRO Group moves into the second phase of the "Tag It Easy" pilot program, which will enable an additional 70 consumer goods suppliers in China and Vietnam to apply RFID labels to the METRO Group's Germany-based facilities.

The Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) has received a 2007 Green Power Leadership award from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).