This year's crop of Consumer Goods Visionaries (formerly known as the 25 Most Influential) reflects the rapidly changing dynamic of the supplier/retailer relationship.
Managers at Quantum Foods Inc. were facing two key challenges: improve inventory control as the business continued to grow dramatically, and meet increasingly stringent government and industry regulations regarding food safety.
All roads lead to Rome, as the expression goes, but for consumer goods companies all roads lead to the retailer -- the consumer goods company's customer.