Sales & Marketing

Past Versus Present
More than any other time in history, consumer goods sales and marketing teams are leaning on intelligent systems to navigate change. CGT's Publisher, Albert Guffanti, asks Michael Shoemaker, director, Industry Market Development -- Distribution & Consumer Goods for Microsoft, to explain why yesterday's technologies don't match up to modern day business and consumer needs.
Analytics and Insights
A new survey explores how CG companies are managing and using data. Last year, we found that analytics capabilities didn't match up with perceived importance, and unfortunately, the results this year are not much more optimistic.

Newell Rubbermaid Gets A Fresh Perspective

Newell Rubbermaid went straight to the source for millennial marketing insights by partnering with more than 150 Philadelphia University industrial design students.
A Trade ROI Mindset

With volatile commodity prices impacting COGS and inability to raise prices, CG firms are forced to consider reducing trade spend while simultaneously ensuring that remaining spend delivers maximum impact. It's worth asking the question -- does your organization have a trade ROI mindset?
2013 Customer Management Solutions

A comparison chart of solution providers to the consumer goods industry in areas including CRM, TPM, TPO, SFA, etc. Plus, industry experts address customer- and consumer-facing trends and challenges.
Paramount Farms Becomes a Digital Marketing Powerhouse

Backed by a fine-tuned social media discipline, Paramount Farms' $30-million nationally integrated marketing campaign is a big hit among consumers and transformed Wonderful Pistachios into a brand that is a social media star in its own right.
Conair Tames Big Data

Together, Conair's Marketing and IT teams wrote a business case that would essentially transform the company's "big data" problem into actionable insights.
TreeHouse Foods Makes Strategic Management Changes

TreeHouse Foods promotes a new EVP of TreeHouse Foods and President of Bay Valley Foods, and appoints a newly created role of EVP, Acquisitions Integrations for TreeHouse Foods.
Top 10 Most Chosen Consumer Goods Brands

A new global ranking of fast moving consumer goods brands reveals the brands that are being bought by the most consumers, the most often. Coca-Cola leads the Top 50 list, while some surprising brands, like Maggi, make it into the top 10. And only one brand in the world reaches more than half of the global population.
Walmart to Revamp E-Commerce, Mobile Strategies

Walmarts CEO of Global e-Commerce division told investors that e-commerce is the next growth engine for the leading retailer: "We want to know what every product in the world is, who every person in the world is and then connect them.