Corporate Governance

Walmart is making moves to test drone delivery. Find out what the mega retailer wants to deliver.

The TerraCycle business model was born from the idea that if you could find a way to make high-quality affordable consumer products from waste, you could create a business with two revenue streams. In other words,get paid to collect material, and get paid for the resulting product or recycled commodity you create from that material. With its business model in tact, but no ability to spend money on paid advertising, TerraCycle had to approach marketing in a unique way since the very early days. In this month's cover story, TerraCycle divulges its recipe for marketing success without a budget.

Many consumer goods companies have already invested in trade management technology, but often fail to close the loop with post-event analysis and, therefore, never have the opportunity to elevate the discussion to a strategic level with retail customers. Here's how.

To help executives stay informed about their opportunity and investment options, CGT invites leading solution providers to showcase new technologies that promise to support strategic business and IT initiatives within consumer goods organizations.

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CGT Executive Editor Kara Romanow gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

Commercial teams -- sales and marketing -- often avoid active participation in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. The belief is that it is not value-added work. Ironically, the biggest benefit is an increase in sales: the metric that is always top of mind for the sales team.

Chocolate company Ferrero Australia announces it has selected StayinFront's mobile field cloud solutions to help support the field team.

Seafood company Gorton's announces a commitment to simplify ingredients for all of the brand's items by the end of 2017. Find out how else the list of ingredients will change.