Research and Reports

CGT and sister brand RIS News again join forces to examine how consumer goods companies and retailers are using analytics both individually and collaboratively.

Analytic Growing Pains: Retailers and consumer goods companies struggle to get the right people, governance and technology.

The retail industry is in an analytics arms race. May the best insights win.

CGT presents a comparison chart of trade promotion management and optimization solution providers to the consumer goods industry in 2017. Plus, experts provide thought leadership for navigating the challenges and opportunities affecting this area of investment.

Cheryl Williams, chief information officer, Wakefern Food Corp., was inducted into the Path to Purchase Institute/Shopper Marketing Hall of Fame for 2017.

At its core, mass customization is the ability to offer a tremendous increase in product variety without a corresponding increase in cost for the consumers making the purchases. Simple ... right?

Herb Smith, vice president, off-premise customer development & category management, E. & J. Gallo Winery, was inducted into the Path to Purchase Institute/Shopper Marketing Hall of Fame for 2017.

As the world population rises, a growing percentage is urban and middle class. These new consumers are attractive to CG companies, but they are also demanding and difficult to reach. Brands must find a way to penetrate these markets while maintaining profitability — here’s how.