Digital Commerce

In response to the way consumers find, browse and purchase their products online -- and to help generate excitement over a re-designed outerwear product line -- IBM helped L.L. Bean create a rich internet application for L.L. Bean's outerwear product line.

Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB), whose brands include Dr Pepper, 7UP, Snapple, A&W Root Beer, Hawaiian Punch, Canada Dry, Mott's and numerous others, is working with MasterCard and USA Technologies to enable Dr Pepper and Snapple vending machines in Dallas, New York and Chicago to accept credit card payments.

Benefit Cosmetics, a subsidiary of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, is the third best-selling makeup brand in the United Kingdom, a top-seller in the United States and Japan, and has plans to expand into China in the near future.

Director, Customer Intelligence, Coca-Cola Bottlers' Sales & Services

SAP shares its perspective on the consumer goods market

Unlike water through its faucets, information did not always flow smoothly at bathroom fittings manufacturer Hansgrohe AG.

Shiraleah is a Chicago-based company that manufactures and distributes home goods and fashion accessories to about 5,000 retailers throughout the United States and Canada.

While this year's Readers' Choice Awards span 12 solution and service categories, some companies do not fit snugly into any one category.