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Nestl in the United States released its 2011 Creating Shared Value report detailing new accomplishments in the areas of nutrition, sustainable business practices, and economic and community development.

By partnering with Twitter, PepsiCo is providing fans exclusive content and engaging millions of people around the world through one of their key passion points music.

The global brewer will expand its implementation of transportation and logistics management solutions based on successful roll outs in key regions.

Gartners Supply Chain Top 25 list for 2012 includes eight pure play consumer goods companies. Some are perennial leaders, like P&G. Others climbed the ranks with impressive supply chain transformations. Unilever, for example, broke into the top 10 this year, and Kimberly-Clark made its debut at No. 25.

Nestle Water will use a new mobile-based platform in Beijing and Shanghai that connects sales teams to information such as replenishment and promotions in real time from any location, via smartphone providers.

Did you know that only 17 percent of Facebook members reside in the United States? That means that consumer goods brands must move their digital reach into global markets to capture the other 83 percent. Heres a look at which consumer goods brands already lead in Facebooks top 10 countries.

The supplier of kefir cultured dairy products is nearly tripling distribution in Target stores as well as adding new Lifeway products to Target's dairy cases.

Pacific Natural Foods makes gross margin gains with aggressive trade spend strategy.