Product Innovation

Mars Chocolate North America makes Halloween easy with an assortment of new sweet treats.

Earlier this week,Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. President and CEO Mike Duke assuredinvestors Walmart will win no matter what environment it's in. "When you go to our stores, you're going to see fantastic new merchandise, aggressive investments in price through lots of rollbacks and better in-stock levels. We're focusing on execution to deliver results." Here's a review of progress that's been made and Walmart's plans for the future.

Today's digital channels have and will continue to fundamentally transform the consumer experience, creating a new class of more informed and more demanding shoppers. As a result, we are also now seeing a blurring of the traditional lines between trading partners, where the "war for the consumer" may actually be yielding to a truer form of collaboration than we've ever seen.

CGT and Gartner Inc. bring you the latest data on technology adoption and trends in the consumer goods industry. Topics include downstream data, S&OP, digital marketing, innovation and a look at retailer attitudes toward emerging technology trends.

Get details behind the company's 2020 Strategy, which focuses on delivering long-term, profitable growth through the year 2020 and is an evolution of the company's recently completed Centennial Strategy.

PVH Europe will implement the full Centric 8 PLM software suite and mobile apps across all Tommy Hilfiger Europe brands, categories and lines.

The new online tracker provides cold and flu forecast up to three weeks in advance.

SPI and Shiloh Technologies combine to provide POS analytics from retailers to suppliers.