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Starbucks acquired Teavana for an aggregate acquisition price of approximately $620 million in cash.

The growth of food waste consciousness, mini-meals, gluten-free products and mainstream veganism top the consumer health trends expected to make headlines in 2013. Certainly, they will each have major implications for marketers and retailers looking to sway consumer opinion in the new year and beyond. Is your company on top of these trends?

Kraft Foods extends its engagement with IBM to build borderless operations through a single enterprise resource planning platform from SAP.

Havas EHS is expected to enable Unilever brands to harness the power of consumer data to improve engagement with the right audience at the right time.

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. has revved up its innovation pipeline to bring more than 40 exciting foods and beverages to the table. This is the first comprehensive new products launch since Kraft became an independent public company in October.

2012 was another exciting and transformational year in the consumer goods industry, from Kraft's new name to Kimberly-Clark's record-breaking digital marketing program. Join CGT as we revisit the most-read sales and marketing-centric headlines of the year.

Spectrum Brands acquisition of HHI also includes certain assets of Tong Lung Metal Industry Co. Ltd., a Taiwanese manufacturer of residential and commercial locksets with facilities in Taiwan and the Philippines.

Just in time for the holidays, Lancme has launched its new mobile and tablet storefronts providing a consistent brand experience wherever their consumer chooses to engage.