Manufacturing

Digital is blurring the boundaries between consumers, stores and consumer brands. This holds major opportunities for consumer facing brands prepared to radically reshape for the digital world and clear risks for those who fail to.

The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. launches a new limited time holiday collection Snow Globes, featuring three new fragrances.

This month's Straight Talk tackles big data, one of the hottest topics to hit the business world. Notwithstanding the hype, the buzz around insights and analytics has created a lot of confusion. Let our experts help you disprove the myths.

The new campaign focuses on the brand's iconic, yet evolving image and continued partnership with stylist and fashion icon, Rachel Zoe.

Because we know it's important to stay on top of your retail customer's strengths and weaknesses, we're bringing you new research findings from our sister publication, RIS News, which benchmarks the progress of omnichannel strategies in retail.

Mergers and acquisitions continue to transform the beverage list year after year. Take a look at the Top 20 competitors in this space.

Bidding wars and rumored acquisitions keep this list of top OTC pharmaceutical companies interesting from year to year.

We have heard the argument by some consumer goods manufacturers that direct-to-consumer e-commerce will upset their retailer. This is changing. The Apparel & Footwear sector moved beyond this argument, and other sectors are soon to change the dynamic as well. Whether they open their own stores, follow China's model of a store-within-a-store, sell via Amazon or direct-to-consumer via web sites, change is upon us.