Sales & Marketing

Dole received unconditional approval from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce to implement the sale of its worldwide packaged foods and Asia fresh produce business to ITOCHU. Two lines of fresh produce business will remain with the new Dole following the the transaction: fresh fruit and fresh vegetables.

Dave Evans will leave his post in mid-February, but will assist in the transition.

Nearly two-thirds of users who fan social media pages are choosing to follow brands and retailers beating out celebrities and TV shows. That means that, surprisingly, Walmart is actually a bigger deal than Kim Kardishian when it comes to social media. Find out how brand popularity online is impacting buying behavior.

New this year, CGT's readers rank the top five technology companies that provide software, hardware and/or services for managing "mobility" for both internal and external communications.

Humankind created more data in a single day in 2012 than it produced between 4000 BC and the year 2000! It is no wonder that Big Data is a common buzz component in today's information age dialogue. Recently, Big Data advocates from Reily Foods, Revlon and Microsoft convened to answer the question on most consumer goods executives minds: How are consumer goods companies capitalizing on all this data, and better yet, how are they using and communicating it?