Retail

In this role the new executive will lead the development and execution of global marketing across all sales channels and communication platforms for Patagonia, as well as for the wider portfolio of Patagonia initiatives in food and media, and new brand extensions.

Many of the consumer goods industrys most innovative thinkers met last week to deepen their understanding of driving true innovation both on the disruptive and incremental fronts. Here is a recap of the insights shared between industry heavyweights and entrepreneurial startups.

Inventure CEO says that this acquisition allows Inventure to add uniquely positioned frozen vegetables to its healthy/natural portfolio for the first time.

A jointly developed solution from Capgemini and Oracle aims to enhance companies customer experience initiatives improving shopper interaction, loyalty and margins.

Walmart launches getontheshelf.walmart.com, asking the public to decide which new products from American entrepreneurs will appear on its shelves this fall.

Successful innovation requires a balance between incremental and disruptive innovation, and while new product introductions are still elusive, they are not impossible. Therefore, CGT is proud to recognize deserving consumer goods companies for excellence in bringing new products to market.

With all the current obsessions over massive amounts of social, mobile, local and search data coming over the horizon, its not unusual for brand marketers to lose focus on the present analytic opportunities already emerging from more conventional data sources.

Post will acquire Dakota Growers, a company in the approximately $5 billion North American pasta market, with leadership positions in the private label retail, foodservice and ingredient channels.