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The Bosch Group boosts power tools business with the acquisition of a Stanley Works division.

DemandTec makes a number of announcements this week, including the launch of a collaborative online platform for retailers and consumer products companies, on-demand access to accurate trade fund balances and a collaboration with Interactive Edge to offer time-saving presentation tool to consumer products firms.

It's no secret. Prices have gone up, employment has gone down and everyone is feeling the economic pressures of a possible recession.

In August 2004, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJRT) merged with Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company and, as a result, began to take a look at the two companies across all different functions and divisions. The goal was to identify best practices within each organization and build the best company going forward.

CGT is proud to present the most recent crop of Consumer Goods Visionaries - those industry thought-leaders who are driving change and innovation in both their companies and the industry as a whole. Ranging from CIOs and senior vice presidents at major Fortune 500 firms to executives from innovative mid-market companies, CGT's Visionaries list is a who's who of industry leaders.

Long before the first medals are awarded in August, Coca-Cola willbuild excitement for the Olympic Games with the launch of anOlympic-themed program in the United States.

Diageo's move to a new suburban 'mega-brewery' was necessary to compete with the rise of lower-cost breweries in Eastern Europe, Russia and China.

Kahlua adds Mocha to its family of exotic coffee liqueurs available in June 2008.