Research Topic

In today's difficult economic climate, packaging innovation from design to shelf is more important than ever to drive business growth considering that more than 75 percent of purchase decisions occur in store. Experts in the field reveal real-world insights, borrowed from Coca-Cola, LOreal and Amcor, for ensuring that your products packaging helps to close the deal with the consumer.

In just a month since launch, Unilever's Dove Real Beauty Sketches film became the No. 1 viewed online video advertisement of all time. It has also been uploaded in 25 languages to 33 Dove YouTube Channels and has been viewed in more than 110 countries. Find out why and how the campaign evoked an unmatched emotional reaction in millions of consumers worldwide.

Despite being far more tech-savvy than previous generations, Generation Y, the 80-million strong cohort of Americans between the ages of 18 and 35, has not forsaken shopping in stores for online purchasing. Even more surprising are some of the brands they love best, including Walmart, Target and Kmart for groceries.

Groupe Danone will assume the role of parent company providing additional resources allowing Happy Family to pioneer even more new products.

If they try it, they'll buy it. That's the message the U.S. Postal Service is sending to consumer packaged goods companies and other marketers with its new mail promotion. Find out more details about this new initiative, including how it hopes to re-invigorate product sampling.

Newell Rubbermaid went straight to the source for millennial marketing insights by partnering with more than 150 Philadelphia University industrial design students.

A new global ranking of fast moving consumer goods brands reveals the brands that are being bought by the most consumers, the most often. Coca-Cola leads the Top 50 list, while some surprising brands, like Maggi, make it into the top 10. And only one brand in the world reaches more than half of the global population.

New analytics are expected to help improve CPG advertisers return on ad spend by identifying programs that have audiences with a higher composition of purchasers.