Sales & Marketing

ConAgra Completes Acquisition of Ralcorp
With 36,000 employees and sales of approximately $18 billion annually, the combined company is one of the largest packaged food companies in North America.
Dole to Sell Worldwide Packaged Foods Business
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.

Walmart Teams Up to Channel Innovation

The new editorial channel by Walmart and Mother Nature Network profiles the most innovative people, businesses, and organizations in sustainability.
ScottsMiracle-Gro CFO Resigns

Dave Evans will leave his post in mid-February, but will assist in the transition.
Brands Beat Celebs for Most Social Media Followers

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.
ROXY Launches Social Media Campaign

Following the success of Let the Sea Set You Free Campaign - ROXY continues its quest to build its social community of unique content creators.
Readers' Choice Survey 2013

For the 13th year in a row, CGT's readers took to the polls to elect their preferred solution and service providers.
2013 Readers' Choice: Customer Relationship Management

CGT's readers rank the top 10 companies that provide an enterprise software suite specific to customer relationship management (CRM), including marketing, sales force automation, category management, etc.
2013 Readers' Choice: Mobility

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.
Revlon, Reily Foods Put Big Data to Good Use

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?