As previously announced, ACCO Brands and MeadWestvaco signed a definitive agreement to merge MeadWestvaco's Consumer & Office Productsbusiness into ACCO Brands in a transaction which was valued at approximately $860 million.
Many industries are being challenged as customers continue to adopt an always-connected digital lifestyle and competitors exploit emerging technologies. Here are 15 strategic planning assumptions that CIOs, senior business executives and IT leaders should factor into their enterprise planning and strategy-setting initiatives.
The decision to launch them together was inspired by the more than two million fans on Facebook in the United States alone, about a quarter of whom are female.
Luxottica's objective was to improve the efficiency of the quality control process to lower costs. The only question was how could it meet this challenge while keeping pace with increasing demand?
Key decisions include realigning the U.S. Sales organization, consolidating U.S. management centers and streamlining the corporate and business unit organizations.
The Latin America alliance between PepsiCo and Ocean Spray includes key countries in the Caribbean, Central America and South America and has a term of 20 years.
Walt Freese, former CEO of Ben & Jerry's, will direct the next phase of Stonyfield growth; Gary Hirshberg will continue in leadership roles with Stonyfield and Danone.
