Supply Chain

With the sale of its North American Fresh Bakery business now complete, Sara Lee now turns its focus toward the sale of EuroDough, its European chilled dough business.

The value of mobile retail marketing will reach $15 billion globally by 2012 as digital ad spendmoves to mobile and mobile coupons gain acceptance, according to a new report from Juniper Research. This is a growth of 50 percent over 2011.

By 2009, Hayneedle, Inc. was marketing more than 220 niche product category web sites. With so many disparate products, an organized and optimized distribution process became top priority.

Starbucks aims to increase its coffee sales via a QR code campaign with the help of Scanbuy.

Unilever made two big announcements in one week: First, its pending sales of Mrs. Dash and other specialty Culver brands for $325 million, and second, an expanded brand offering in the U.K.

Technologically-Advanced Consumers, The Demise of Enterprise IT, Proven Downstream Data Use Cases, The Supply Chain of the Future you name the topic, chances are that the speakers covered it at the 2011 Consumer Goods Business & Technology Leadership Conference. Click here for a recap of the event's many highlights, featuring industry all stars from P&G, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Energizer, PepsiCo and many more.

Learn how users leveraged Product Portfolio Management (PPM) technology and best practices to optimize their methodologies and realize benefits like: improved time to market; higher product development efficiency; better alignment of the product portfolio with company strategy. Author Jim Brown of research firm Tech-Clarity reveals how PPM plus best practice processes are a great enabler of ROI for product development firms the world over.