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Retailers are challenged to be ever more responsive to consumer demand. Strategies, like customer-centricity and multi-channel convergence, put pressure on instore inventory, which then pressures the consumer goods supply chain to perform flawlessly.

Hormel Foods implemented Siebel Business Analytics and Siebel Consumer Goods to improve trade promotion management, customer relations, productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of marketing investments.

As General Mills began planning a recent expansion to its corporate campus in Minneapolis, Minn., the company's IS team realized it was the perfect time to implement new functionality and performance into its existing HP ProCurve network.

Georgia Pacific, one of the world's largest manufacturers of tissue, paper, packaging and other consumer products, selects ToolsGroup's DPM Inventory Optimization Solution to optimize customer service to a diverse customer base, while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating costs.

The world may never know the formula behind Coke Classic or why a box of cereal costs more than a bushel of bananas, but there is one closely guarded secret in the consumer goods space that is beginning to unfurl: price optimization.

7-Eleven Inc. announces winners of its 2006 Retailer Initiative Awards.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG is rumored to be considering the sale of baby food maker Gerber Products Co. to Nestle, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Responsible business practices; being "green"