Events

The Perks of Integrated Business Planning
Within the highly competitive branded coffee category, approximately 70 percent to 75 percent of volume is sold on promotion. Today, Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA is effectively using a unified system for trade promotion management and forecasting to capitalize on this huge opportunity.
2014 Review & Outlook: The 2020 Imperative
The 2014 Review & Outlook Report is a roadmap that pinpoints where the industry is today and where it's headed. This year, 75 of the best and brightest minds in consumer goods share predictions and guidance for the year 2020 in the areas of IT, Innovation, Sales & Marketing and Supply Chain.

2013 Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference

A recap of the event's insightful presentations that explored the role that collaboration can play in advancing projects in supply chain, sales and marketing, analytics, data sharing and more.
CG Leaders Study Disruptive & Incremental Innovation

Many of the consumer goods industrys most innovative thinkers met last week to deepen their understanding of driving true innovation both on the disruptive and incremental fronts. Here is a recap of the insights shared between industry heavyweights and entrepreneurial startups.
CleanWell Challenges Consumer Convention

CleanWell Company Founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Larry Weiss explains how the company is poised to radically transform the entire cleaning category with a big push from consumers who share the universal desire for better, safer products.
Dean DeBiase to Keynote 2013 Consumer Goods Growth & Innovation Forum

The agenda for this leading consumer goods industry conference also features innovation thought leaders from Kraft Foods, Kimberly-Clark, Clorox, CleanWell and more.
CG Execs Meet to Share Sales & Marketing Insights

Sales and marketing trailblazers from Mondelez, Unilever, J&J and Kellogg joined more than 225 consumer goods executives in NYC this week for the 2013 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit. This year, New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur since birth Gary Vaynerchuk kicked things off with a provocative presentation on the need for consumer goods companies to adapt in the Internet era. Get a recap of the event here.
Paramount Farms Becomes a Digital Marketing Powerhouse

Backed by a fine-tuned social media discipline, Paramount Farms' $30-million nationally integrated marketing campaign is a big hit among consumers and transformed Wonderful Pistachios into a brand that is a social media star in its own right.
Bestselling Author Gary Vaynerchuk to Deliver Keynote at 2013 Sales & Marketing Summit

With close to one million Twitter followers, Vaynerchuk is known as a true social media trailblazer, and was included in BusinessWeeks list of the top 20 people every entrepreneur should follow. At the 2013 Consumer Goods Sales & Marketing Summit, he'll lead a strong speaker lineup of industry thought leaders from Unilever, Mondelez, Paramount Farms, L'Oreal, Applegate and the NY Jets.
CGT Reveals 2012 Innovation Award Winners

Over the last few years, with budgets slashed and resources limited, many CG companies have focused innovation efforts on mere line extensions or slight variations of existing concepts. But, there are exceptions. Here, CGT honors two companies that delivered truly revolutionary new products with 2012 Innovation Awards.