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The adoption of social media strategies is on the rise in the CG industry as social networking now accounts for 11 percent of all time spent online in the United States. Find out which brands have the biggest followings on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

U.S. household goods companies won out in battle for public opinion, claiming five of the top 10 spots in a new national corporate reputation survey. Find out which other CG companies got high marks from 800 American consumers.

The Anheuser-Busch InBev wholesalers implement the HighJump route accounting system to manage its growing direct store delivery operations.

The investment is in addition to PepsiCo's investment over the past two years in two new manufacturing facilities, a new foods plant in Binh Duong and a new beverages plant in Can Tho.

As of June 2010, 12 consumer goods companies landed in the top 20 percent of the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index. Here, CGT connects you to the leaders, like Coca-Cola, Kraft and P&G, and highlights some of their larger green accomplishments to date.

Starting this week, Sara Lee's board has initiated a process to select a new chief executive officer, looking at both internal and external candidates.

Being green isn't new to Kraft Foods, but senior leadership raised the bar significantly in the last three years, making sustainability a company-wide effort and setting aggressive goals. Here, Kraft Foods' VP of Sustainability Steve Yucknut shares big sustainability wins in four key areas, all of which have been made possible in part by a "greener" corporate culture.

Bear Naked, Kashi, Odwalla and Clif Bar helped TerraCycle to collect more than 1.5 million wrappers and pay charities nearly $32,000: TerraCycle also works with Elmer's, Scotch Tape, Sharpie, Paper Mate and EXPO brands to clean up the office products industry.