Product Innovation

This includes a private online community composed of the Mountain Dew brand's most loyal fans, innovative uses of Twitter, YouTube, DEW labs, and more.

The annual report, produced by CGT, RIS News, IDC Manufacturing Insights and IDC Retail Insights, reveals the latest research findings on the state of retailer and manufacturer collaboration. Analysts start with some thoughts on the current economic climate and move on to explore the value of collaborative relationships in areas like SaaS and cloud computing, sustainability, S&OP, data sharing and much more.

CGT readers have revealed the hottest topics of this year simply by clicking on headlines. In case you missed them, here are the top 10 most read stories of 2009.

The group will focus on long-term research aimed at developing healthier foods and beverages that can improve people's overall diets.

The company will further reduce sugar in cereals advertised to children to "single-digit" levels per serving.

This will be Bottega Veneta's first fragrance collection.

The acquisition combines Gerber's CAD/CAM and PLM Solutions with Yunique's PLM Software platform.