Manufacturing

The announcement builds on more than $1 billion in domestic manufacturing investments from Mars, Inc. over the past five years.

Rapidly changing consumer behaviors, fueled by an increased use of technology and expanding shopping options within a slow growth environment, are forcing consumer goods companies to hone in on growth and consumers. CGT partners with Gartner to provide insights to help understand the industrys latest survey data.

Find out how Honest Tea's social media following skyrocketed after the launch of its first-ever social sweepstakes.

How can leaders get the growth vibe on the inside of their companies to match their external marketing and sales efforts? As with most things, it starts with the top.

In many cases, the focus is now on improving returns from one of the industrys most valuable assets: The sales force. We asked StayinFronts Sam Barclay to explain how companies are using a number of performance management strategies and tools to do just that.

ABM was measuring store-level retail execution and sales performance by manually collecting data making the process time-consuming, inefficient and tough to scale. Heres a look at how the company ensured the data collected was not only accurate and consistent, but also aligned with best practice standards.

This year's agenda honed in on interactive, discussion-type sessions with the launch of CGT University, for starters. Here are 10 conference highlights that will strike a leadership chord.

Everyone creates a plan, thats easy or at least it should be. But if you dont have a good way to measure execution against what was planned, then it is by sheer luck that the plan hits the target.