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With 4,400 employees, the producer and marketer of wines, spirits, ciders and RTD beverages struggled to effectively communicate with its field sales teams and across functions. Learn how it used tech to improve operational cohesion and unity when designing trade programs for execution at scale.

As more retail-owned brands fill up shelf space, independent CPG brands face increasingly challenging odds. The re-emergence of QR codes offers a solution to help brands even the playing field.  

As digital transformation accelerates across industries, the funnel is becoming less effective and less relevant to the way customers engage with businesses across sectors.

2021 is expected to be the year of hyper-relevant messages as part of the eternal battle to gain consumer’s attention. Building and managing the atomic elements of the creative copy will allow to capture dynamic audiences in the physical space and deliver fast activations contextual to real-life events such as weather forecast.

While most of today's consumer goods brands are all-in on growing digital sales, things are a bit trickier for the alcohol beverage category. A recent webinar with two Diageo e-commerce leaders explored how the brand has managed to make massive e-commerce gains despite today's antiquated and often complicated laws.

Held across three days and packed with keynotes, panels and fireside chats with today’s industry-leading CG brands, retailers and solution providers, Analytics Unite provided attendees with some much-needed perspective, context and inspiration as we move into the second half of the year. See highlights of the coverage here.

With today’s channel and media fragmentation, consumer goods brands can’t rely on gut instincts to get their marketing mixes right. And as these channels grow (and budgets shrink), properly leveraging the power of analytics is what’s separating the winners from the losers.

Traditional macroeconomic data points may be interesting when it comes to exploring the impact of the pandemic, but they’re just not timely enough to drive real business decisions. If you’re not looking at things like weather patterns and population shifts — not to mention vacation home real estate bursts — you’re losing out to the CGs that are.