Sales & Marketing

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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 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.

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.