Manufacturing

Demographic trends such as an increase in multicultural families and smaller households are influencing how America bakes.

Birchbox has added its first in-house makeup, expanding into product development with the launch of LOC (Love of Color). Find out what the company plans for its private label line.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to buy its main rival SABMiller for $104 billion, creating a super brewery with sales of $55 billion. Find out the details of this potential mega-deal, which, if completed, would be among the top five acquisitions of all time.

A recent Gartner survey found that 43 percent of supply chain professionals are strongly committed to a single underlying technology platform that streamlines internal processes and removes the complexities involved with integrating multiple, disparate systems. Here's how ERP enables that vision. Learn more in this white paper.

CGT Editor Alarice Rajagopal gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

Gary R. Godfrey, Americas Consumer Products & Retail Supply Chain leader for Ernst & Young, discusses what omnichannel means for the supply chain in consumer goods and whether or not companies are equipped to handle it.

CGT and Gartner Inc. team up to bring you the latest data on technology spending, adoption and trends in the consumer goods industry. The result: Companies are building the foundation for the future where the Internet of Things will keep consumers and businesses perpetually connected, through current investments in social, mobile, analytics, and cloud technologies.

In this exclusive Q&A, L'Oreal USA's Andrea Atwell divulges her recipe for success on attracting, building and developing a talented, entrepreneurial supply chain planning team.