Sales & Marketing

Unilever will sell its global Skippy business to Hormel Foods for a total cash consideration of approximately $700 million.

BluePrint, a marketer and manufacturer of raw, organic cold-pressed fruit and vegetable juices and juice beverages, generated approximately $20 million in sales in calendar year 2012.

The growth of food waste consciousness, mini-meals, gluten-free products and mainstream veganism top the consumer health trends expected to make headlines in 2013. Certainly, they will each have major implications for marketers and retailers looking to sway consumer opinion in the new year and beyond. Is your company on top of these trends?

Starbucks acquired Teavana for an aggregate acquisition price of approximately $620 million in cash.

Havas EHS is expected to enable Unilever brands to harness the power of consumer data to improve engagement with the right audience at the right time.

2012 was another exciting and transformational year in the consumer goods industry, from Kraft's new name to Kimberly-Clark's record-breaking digital marketing program. Join CGT as we revisit the most-read sales and marketing-centric headlines of the year.

Spectrum Brands acquisition of HHI also includes certain assets of Tong Lung Metal Industry Co. Ltd., a Taiwanese manufacturer of residential and commercial locksets with facilities in Taiwan and the Philippines.