Sales & Marketing

CGT introduces you to six technology innovations that aim to drive business outcomes for competitive consumer goods companies.

As Canada's e-commerce landscape began to flourish, Unilever realized the inefficiencies connected to its lack of a product information management hub. With no time to waste, Unilever enlisted the services of Hubba, the B2B social network that also acts as a product information-sharing platform to simplify digital asset management.

Digital technologies are radically changing how consumer goods companies connect with consumers in diverse markets around the globe. And, the implications reach far beyond sales and marketing. Alex Kushnir, Partner at Accenture, provides insights into what this means for CPG sales leaders working to enhance their routes to market.

Once again, RSi had the pleasure of moderating the Downstream Data Share Group at this years CGT Business Technology Leadership event. We were excited to have a great group of participants from all different backgrounds, sharing and collaborating on Creating Digital Demand in store. Weve seen the retail landscape become increasingly digitized and customer centric and felt it was time to discuss promotions that touch every phase of the path to purchase.

Energizer was determined to accurately assess the ROI of retail service activities at granular levels. It sought to understand which services drive the most incremental sales and which cost the most to perform. It needed a process and a database to collect and deliver the data in a meaningful way.

CGT Editor Ali Ackerman Orr gives you a sneak peek into the trends and topics discussed in this month's issue.

The concept of measuring retail/supplier performance is fundamental to improving a relationship. It sounds so easy to do, but it is not. After a decade of implementation and use, progress on retail scorecards and the measurement of progress in a relationship is happening very slowly.

William E. Mote, Jr. has been appointed as the company's new Chief Financial Officer, and that Annamaria Dooley has been appointed as Senior Vice President of Product Development.