Product Innovation

20% of Companies To Shift Packaging Focus Away From Recycling: Gartner
Some companies may have gotten a little over their skis when it comes to their sustainability goals.
Nestlé Trials Recyclable Packaging With Paper-wrapped KitKat Bars
In an effort to reduce plastic packaging, Nestlé will pilot paper-wrapped versions of their four-bar KitKat chocolates across select stores in Australia. The trial will run for a limited time exclusively in Cole’s grocery stores.

Research & Development (R&D)
CES 2023: How P&G’s Consumer Brands Keep Reaping Rewards from Space Research
Why would a consumer goods company want to conduct research in space? For one thing, it’s a pretty great environment to work on your innovation resource efficiency.
Package Design & Production
How Kellogg’s Silo-Busting Is Fueling Packaging Innovation
The work Kellogg Company has done to break down internal silos is bearing fruit in the form of packaging innovation.
Package Design & Production
PepsiCo and L’Oreal Launch Innovative Packaging and Labeling Strategies
PepsiCo and L’Oreal USA are the latest consumer goods brands to transform their packaging and labeling, launching new strategies that will impact various aspects across the value chain.
Package Design & Production
Haleon and Barilla Expand Accessibility for Blind and Visually-impaired Consumers
Both Microsoft and Barilla have expanded functionalities of their existing apps designed to help people in need of visual assistance.
Product Innovation
3M’s Post-It Partners With Microsoft on Brainstorming App Venture
3M’s Post-It brand has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new app aimed at digitizing idea-sharing through the use of a virtual whiteboard and sticky notes
Consumer Analytics
Hershey Automating Consumer Insights to Slash Churn and Grow Retail Indispensability
The Hershey Company has been experimenting in leveraging consumer insights for its price pack architecture — a key strategy in today’s CPG playbook to appeal to price-sensitive consumers.
Research & Development (R&D)
L'Oréal Invests in Beauty Tech of the Future With New Research and Innovation Center
L’Oreal is doubling down on building out tech that could transform the future of beauty. As part of this strategy, it is investing $140 million in a research and innovation center in Clark, New Jersey that will be fully operational by 2024. Get the details.
Augmented Reality
Colgate Marches On With AI-Infused Product Innovation
Colgate-Palmolive, no stranger to AI-enabled oral care, is leveraging artificial intelligence and augmented reality as part of a new tooth-whitening experience.
E-commerce
Colgate-Palmolive Bullish On Hill’s ‘Best-in-Class’ Digital Capabilities
Colgate-Palmolive is accelerating its digital transformation across the enterprise in part by leveraging the capabilities it’s developed within the growing Hill’s Pet Nutrition business.
Webinars
AWS Webinar Series
Check out the latest conversations with Kellogg's, Nestle Purina, Heineken and more.
Virtual Fireside Chat
CPGs Shifting Into Innovation at High Gear
After spending the last two-plus years simplifying SKUs to keep production lines moving and products on shelves, many CPGs are now embracing new innovation strategies that meet today’s exceedingly heightened consumer expectations. Learn how.
Infographic
Unleashing the Future of Product Innovation
CPGs are in a new era of innovation, but many remain saddled with legacy systems and processes. Explore the tech helping them overcome common new product development and launch challenges to realize true innovation.