Marketing Tactics

Retailers again ranked P&G Best of the Best although Unilever made up significant ground on its major rival across a number of individual measures and made the biggest gains. Find out which other suppliers are finding favor with America's top retailers.

The collection of winners are widely diverse: from small firms to global operations to academia. Some are located near P&G's global headquarters in Cincinnati, others are scattered around the world.

Anheuser-Busch will begin packaging 44,000 cases of emergency drinking water or 1,056,000 cans this week for residents impacted by Hurricane Sandy and other natural disasters.

The philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company pledged $1 million to local community relief efforts. Funds will help provide resources for necessary food and shelter in the short-term and will aid in the long-term rebuilding efforts.

The donation includes a $250,000 cash contribution from Kellogg's Corporate Citizenship Fund to the American Red Cross and $250,000 in food to Feeding America.

Over the last few years, with budgets slashed and resources limited, many CG companies have focused innovation efforts on mere line extensions or slight variations of existing concepts. But, there are exceptions. Here, CGT honors two companies that delivered truly revolutionary new products with 2012 Innovation Awards.

Some of the best minds in the CG industry met in Orlando, Fla. earlier this week for the 14th annual Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference. There, they swapped insight-driven strategies for driving top-line growth. Hot topics included retailer collaboration, demand chain excellence, IT enablement and much more. Get a sneak peak behind the scenes here.