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This November, Ocean Spray's Bogs Across America tour will transform landmark sites in New York City (Rockefeller Center), Chicago (Tribune Tower) and Los Angeles (Hollywood & Highland Center) into a sea of glimmering, red berries.

Mother Parkers, a large coffee and tea manufacturer in North America, is experiencing cost savings as a result of deploying Logility Voyager Solutions to improve demand and inventory planning.

Tissue and paper products manufacturer Georgia Pacific has automated warehouse management at a 350,000-square-foot pallet distribution center near Wigan, Lancashire, using Warehouse Management from RedPrairie.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation's consumer tissue and baby and child care businesses are notifying customers of plans to raise prices in the United States during the first quarter of 2008.

Nike Inc. announces that Jill Stanton, vice president, Apparel for Nike's U.S. region, is named vice president of Global Apparel for the Nike brand.

SABMiller plc and Molson Coors Brewing Company intend to combine the U.S. and Puerto Rico operations of their respective subsidiaries, Miller and Coors, in a joint venture to create a stronger, brand-led U.S. brewer with the scale, resources and distribution platform to compete more effectively in the increasingly competitive U.S. marketplace.

As part of its commitment to corporate social responsibility, Sara Lee Corporation, the producer of coffee flagship brands such as Douwe Egberts, Merrild, Maison du Cafe and Marcilla, is doubling its worldwide procurement of sustainable coffee.

SAP announced this week that it will acquire Business Objects for $6.8 billion.