Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

With so many Americans looking for the cause of obesity, food and beverage companies are taking the heat and the blame. Activist groups and individuals are targeting companies and products as THE reason that obesity exists. While we know healthy eating is essential for living a healthy life, there is much more to the story.

The company appoints Debra A. Sandler to newly created role of Chief Health & Wellbeing Officer and names Tracey Massey as acting President, Chocolate North America.

While Walmart once again takes the top spot, Amazons rise into a top 10 list from STORES Media is being noted as a symbolic of a shift in U.S. retail toward a genuinely multichannel future. Find out who else made the list, indicating noticeable changes taking place in the retail landscape.

The brand optimized the palette based on consumer preferences and behaviors, as well as trending colors to give DIYers the best hues for their painting projects.

Hundreds of marketing directors and associate marketing directors at P&G will officially become brand directors and associate brand directors.

According to a new study, the number of high-paying IT jobs continues to grow faster than the number of graduates who can fill them.

CGT shines a spotlight on the consumer goods executives that made the 2014 list, like Indra Nooyi, who celebrates her 10^th anniversary on this guide to extraordinary icons and leaders, groundbreakers and ceiling crashers who command the world stage.

The first half of 2014 flew by, yet so much has changed. CGT stops time for a moment to recap the most-read news and trend stories on consumergoods.com from January through June. What does this short list tell us? Consumer trends, industry predictions and big data, of course, are the top-of-mind topics among our readers. And, it seems as though everyone is trying to figure out the next big thing.