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?The company intensifies its focus on Health & Hygiene and faster growing consumer markets to fuel another decade of market outperformance.

The General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network shares key insights of its X3 Process, a new approach developed to provide a step-by-step roadmap for the company's open innovation projects. Why share? General Mills anticipates others will find success using the non-linear approach to guide innovation efforts as well.

Minneapolis-based Crispin grew approximately 200 percent in 2011, outpacing the overall cider categorys 26 percent growth during the same period.

With network optimization as the goal, Transplace recommends strategic assignment of carriers to all of the lanes within the Doles North American freight network.

Deckers recognized an immediate increase in customer engagement upon switching to Demandware, including a 14 percent increase in conversion on UGGAustralia.com in the first week.

The Good Housekeeping Research Institute deemed that these seven products were game-changers amongst a pool of more than 1,500 new products. Plus, Good Housekeeping readers voted for one Hall of Fame winner, a product that consumers can't seem to live without.

The former Diageo head of global procurement, John Dickson, is to become chief procurement officer at H.J. Heinz.

Analysts say the move may be inspired by the success of Apple Inc., which has hundreds of its own stores to show off interactive gadgets and accessories.