Manufacturing

The acquisition of Bevyz adds unique and complementary technology and research and development capabilities as Keurig Green Mountain gears up to launch its Keurig Cold platform in the fall of 2015.

With a Symphony EYC solution, the Talking Rain category management, marketing and sales teams are expected to provide retailers with insights around how to best assort and merchandise the emerging enhanced water category.

The 25-year consumer packaged goods industry veteran most recently served as Senior Vice President of Strategy, Franchise Relations & Transformation for Coca-Cola North America Group.

Both executives will help guide the GS1 US strategy to drive adoption and usage of GS1 Standards across multiple industries to support improved supply chain efficiencies, regulatory requirements, and the needs of today's consumer, including more accurate and complete product information.

IDC Manufacturing Insights reveals the top 10 decision imperatives for 2015 and beyond, driven by complex value chains, support for continuing emerging market growth, customer (and consumer) centricity, ubiquitous connectivity and data-driven insights.

Half of all packaging initiatives fail. Learning how to improve the odds by using virtual shelves to validate new package designs in the context will cut validation time and cost by half compared to traditional testing methods.

Early reports predict a slow kickoff to the holiday shopping season could bring an estimated 11% drop in sales year over year. Despite gains in online traffic and sales, overall sales were soft this Thanksgiving as the average shopper spent 6.4% less over the long weekend.

The newly appointed EVP, Global Categories and Operations, and CEO for PepsiCo Europe, are expected to further strengthen the companys management team.