Marketing Tactics

The newly created Meals and Desserts, and Enhancers and Snack Nuts business units are formed to create more focused and less complex businesses.

The announcement could lead to more major changes for one of the worlds largest producers and marketers of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, which sold its packaged foods and Asia fresh business for $1.69 billion in April.

Breakthrough innovators in the consumer goods industry challenge convention and triumph by expanding or transforming categories. They possess the rare ability to pursue, shape, develop and activate insights that deliver what consumers want. Heres a look at 14 of the more distinctive, relevant new product launches that will stand the test of time.

With the help of The Biggest Loser Ambassadors, the four-month consumer sampling expedition will begin at Popcorn, Indianas headquarters in Englewood, N.J. on May 31, 2013.

The appointment comes at a time when PepsiCo's underperforming beverage unit has been under scrutiny, with Wall Street chattering about the possibility of a spinoff of the unit to focus on its faster-growing snacks.

Accurately measuring the branding performance of digital investments has been an ongoing challenge for consumer goods brands. Using new technology, the consumer goods titan can now identify which of its digital ads consumers see, and which are overlooked.

Weeklong festivities will feature 14,000 associates from all 27 countries and highlight the career opportunities at Walmart.

A new collaboration with Google is part of the company's commitment to invest 10 percent of its global marketing budget in mobile activations across the entire consumer journey.