The world may never know the formula behind Coke Classic or why a box of cereal costs more than a bushel of bananas, but there is one closely guarded secret in the consumer goods space that is beginning to unfurl: price optimization.
Gus Barber started Barber Foods with one employee, a butcher knife and an old truck. He had a 1,000 square foot facility and delivered beef to restaurants and markets in Portland, Me.
Church & Dwight Co. Inc. and ACNielsen U.S. form a long-term arrangement designating ACNielsen as its primary provider of marketing information services on a global basis.
PepsiCo Inc. signs a seven-year global services agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to provide data center management services and infrastructure consolidation for the company's PepsiCo International division.
After recent acquisitions from Allied Domecq, Beam Global Spirits & Wine Inc. has more than 100 brands, operations in 16 locations and sales in 160 countries.
