Customer Experience

7-Eleven Inc. announces winners of its 2006 Retailer Initiative Awards, which formally recognize those suppliers that excelled at helping 7-Eleven meet its convenience customers' changing needs through team merchandising, demandchain solutions, cost of goods, category management and contributing to creative advertising and promotional programs.

Coca-Cola Co. unveiled its Far Coast brand of premium brewed beverages to an awaiting Toronto marketplace in September 2006.

One of the largest CG companies undertakes re-branding through Web site revamp

Beachbody tones down e-mail volumes to improve customer service

Tropicana Products Inc., a division of PepsiCo Inc., is going beyond the juice aisle into the produce section with the introduction of Tropicana Pure, a new line of 100-percent fruit juices.

The closing of the May issue marks a bittersweet time for CGT.

To date, most retailers rely on plastic packaging to discourage thieves who were slitting packages open, grabbing the contents and dropping empty packaging back on shelves.

Procter & Gamble's quest to debunk competitors that too closely mimic its brand packaging is a testament to the sophistication of the new age of private label product.