Ambrey will be speaking at the “Transforming Insights Into Products and Experiences” session, joining Binu Varghese from SpartanNash, Murat Genc of Whirlpool Corporation, and Andy Walter of AJW-Advisory LLC.
Mars, Inc., is investing $70 million in manufacturing, opening a research and development innovation studio with a test kitchen, chocolate production facility, and packaging lab.
The company is eliminating plastic- or aluminum-based pods to instead package pressed coffee beans within a protective plant-based wrapping that can be directly inserted into new Keurig Alta brewers.
Some parents in Boston will soon have the option to offset the environmental impact of their baby’s used diapers, as part of a new Huggies pilot aimed at diverting landfill waste.
The effort is being led by Sophie Kelly, global category director of Tequila for Diageo, and the company’s new Global Breakthrough Innovation Team, a subsidiary within its current Innovation function that launched early this year, with the goal to shape innovation “beyond the development of new products.”
