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Footwear and accessories brand Cole Haan launches Apple Pay allowing customers to make purchases with one touch on the mobile shopping app.

Cokes North American vending fleet which dispenses an average of 15 beverages per second will include 100,000 Apple Pay-enabled machines by the end of 2015.

It's no surprise that this section continues to remain the largest, as the impact of social media and mobile technology (and newer technologies like beacons and 3D printing) are quickly changing the shopper experience.

Looking ahead, Mintel's trends analysts Stacy Glasgow and Jenny Zegler discuss the four key US consumer trends identified by Mintel as the most impactful for 2015 and what this will mean for both consumers and brands in the year ahead. Read on to learn how Get Smart, My Wallet, My Way, Fight for Your Rights and Gender Agenda will impact consumers and brands alike in the coming year.

Who will sell consumer product five years from now? And where? The decline of shopping malls, the rise of online shopping and changing consumer habits require consumer goods manufacturers to rethink their approach to moving goods.

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.

In this era of social media and mobile consumers, successful sales and marketing requires collaborative technology to make an impact. Themed around the coveted IT/Marketing Alliance, the 2014 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit united sales, marketing and IT trailblazers to explore and compare strategies and lessons learned in their journey toward true alignment.