Sales & Marketing

Harry & David deploys SAP for Retail to manage its store operations, inventory management and wholesale operations.

Reuters reporting on the findings of a Credit Suisse survey said that China is on course to become the world's second-largest consumer market by 2015, with the United States being first.

Altria Group Inc. announces the distribution ratio for its previously announced spin off of Kraft Foods Inc. Altria shareholders received approximately 0.69 of a share of Kraft for each share of Altria common stock held.

Giant Eagle rolls out the IBM personal shopping assistant (PSA) shopping cart system.

Land O'Lakes, Inc., a leading dairy cooperative, is implementing Sopheon's Accolade product life cycle management (PLM) system as the technology foundation for its product innovation processes.

Sorbara's Shop n' Save deploys the Fujitsu U-Scan self-checkout system, in conjunction with POS software from StoreNext.

The Sports Authority selects GSI Commerce to provide Web and order processing technologies.

Like most other consumer product companies, Kimberly-Clark Corporation invests significantly in in-store product promotions, using a manufactured display that