Best Practices

The company strives to conduct business in a way that reduces the total environmental impact of its products and operations.

A sustainability survey from Manufacturing Insights reminds us that many manufacturers are just starting to green their products and processes. Sustainability predictions for 2009 emphasize that the gap between leaders and followers will widen, and the growing use of data to define a company's sustainability progress is going to make that gap visible both inside and outside the company.

As the New Year approaches, consumer goods executives everywhere are resolving to better manage their company's time, resources and money in a downed economy. Here, CGT Research Advisory Board members offer five more valuable tips guaranteed to help your company stick to its New Year's resolutions and outlive this recession.

A total of 265 projects from social entrepreneurs in 54 countries around the world were submitted to the online competition.

The establishment of the Customer Innovation Campus underlines the importance that Nestle attributes both to R&D and to the out-of-home business.

Historically, the consumer goods industry has been positioned to stay afloat in hard financial times. But this time around, it's different as a number of peer companies fall victim to the troubled economy. Here, CGT's Research Advisory Board members offer survival tips on how to make the most out of a bad situation and, hopefully, come out of this recession on top.

The training incorporates more than 10,000 academic partners and more than $4 billion in grants annually.

The strategic partnership's first joint project is already underway to validate new hypotheses and concepts in the beauty sector.