Consumer Attitudes & Behavior

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.

CGT Editor Ali Ackerman Orr gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

Here is a look at the 10 supermarkets that finished at the bottom of the rankings starting with last-place finisher Walmart.

The SC Johnson Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Research Tower opens to the public, for the first time ever, on May 2, 2014.

This year stirred up the pot of new store closings, not because the retail industry as a whole is in crisis, but because some retailers have found it difficult (or nearly impossible) to keep up in the fast-moving, competitive retailing environment.

Snyder's-Lance Chief Marketing Officer Rod Troni reveals how the company is using consumer insights to reinvent the way Americans snack.