Technology

Alliance participants, including Coke, Kraft, and P&G among others, first convened in March 2010 to discuss the state of publicly available product data, and decided to form the alliance and work together to improve it.

There's no doubt that quickly and accurately unlocking insights from retailer data can yield enormous benefits for consumer goods firms. Here, the manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers, explains how it had put an enterprise DSR to good use.

An audit of 100 national retailers tracks phenomenal growth of Facebook as a platform for branding and social promotions. Case in point: Retailers with 1 million or more likers averaged nearly 40 percent growth between mid-July and mid-September in 2010. Click here to learn more about this audit.

AB InBev expands its partnership with CAS to drive best practice business processes and efficiencies across its go-to-market operations.

CIOs need to change their mindset and start considering the MES as a corporate-wide business application. A new report from IDC Manufacturing Insights analyzes the top global Manufacturing Execution System vendors in order to help you select the right application.

The beauty company acquires a cosmetic producer in Germany in order to further its expansion in color cosmetics.

The new successor most recently served as senior vice president of Finance for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated.

Nestle aims to back its drive in technology by launching a new application for iPads and iPhones.