Throughout its first decade of doing business as a home canning company, Alltrista Consumer Products Company had little need to track promotional activity and trade promotion spending.
It's an unfortunate fact of consumer goods manufacturing that not every bottle, tube or pack flows through distribution to a retailer's operations and, ultimately, to the consumer's home and stays there, satisfying the customer.
A new product offering from Digital View Group called Viewstream delivers promotional and advertising messages directly to consumers via at-shelf video units placed at the point of purchase.
In order to remain competitive, consumer goods firms are faced with the increasing challenge of getting their products developed and to market faster than ever before.