Marketing Tactics

Despite the e-commerce boom, brick-and-mortar stores should still account for approximately 85 percent of U.S. retail sales in 2025. But that doesn't mean your company should stand still. Here, McKinsey & Company identifies five trends will most impact on the industry, from demographic changes to emerging retail business models.

McCormick's new digital service, FlavorPrint, is a testament to the role that collaboration (both internal and external) plays when it comes to delivering meaningful consumer experiences both online and off.

In order to grow market share, the company embarked on a mobile solution strategy in March 2007 that would abandon its 100 percent paper-based retail execution system.

Mobile commerce will grow exponentially during the 2013 holiday season with consumers buying at home and in store via their phone. In fact, mobility will drive e-commerce sales gains of between 13 percent and 15 percent. Today's sales and marketing strategies, therefore, need to acknowledge the mobile device not as a "channel" but rather as gateway to multiple channels.

The independent arbitrator in the dispute between Kraft Foods and Starbucks Coffee Company ruled that Starbucks must pay more than $2.7 billion in total cash compensation for its unilateral termination of the companies' coffee contract.

A new social media engagement program scans photos and visuals from public Instagrammer posts and verifies imagery of branded content, recognizing not only keyword and hashtag use but also photo use.

The new CEO joins the company as part of its recent acquisition of The Colomer Group, and comes from prior roles at Reckitt Benckiser, J&J and P&G.

"Larry the Quaker Guy" grows a mustache to raise awareness for men's health cause.