Corporate Governance

Surmounting supply chain challenges in a demand-driven environment

Ocean-Spray opens a new tool to improve packaging info accuracy

Since its start in 1905, the Red Wing Shoe Company has held a solid commitment to four basic principles: "We are dedicated to quality, durability, comfort and providing a great value to our customers," says Rick Bawek, CFO, Red Wing Shoe Company.

Like so many other companies that sell to mass merchants and department stores, Heyman Corporation, an apparel manufacturer that produces branded clothes like OshKosh B'Gosh, Disney and Warner Brothers, had its fair share of deduction issues.

In 1987, Nike started a revolution by unleashing The Air Max running shoe, the first of its type to incorporate Nike-AIR cushioning, which put a comfy new spin on athletic footwear and sent the industry-at-large back to the drawing board.

Last month, more than 120 high-level consumer goods executives convened in New York City for the inaugural Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit a unique event launched in response to the convergence of sales and marketing and technology within leading consumer goods organizations.

It amazes me that failed technology implementations that occurred years ago continue to make headlines today.

According to a recent global survey of 650 companies conducted by Deloitte Research, new product revenue contribution is expected to average 34 percent of overall revenue by 2007, up 21 percent from 1998.